<div dir="ltr">OK, put down the flame throwers, this is a US Government system, so we can't change the OS.<div><br><div>Here is the deal, I have a system I'm trying to complete and ship today or tomorrow that needs RAID 5 with a hot spare. We're running an ASUS mobo with an ASUS Pike 2008 LSI controller which only supports RAID 0, 1, 10. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is a dual Xeon E5-2630 system with 64 GB of RAM so there should be plenty of resources and horsepower. I'm soliciting recommendations/advise regarding the possibility of creating a Linux software RAID 5 under virtual box. </div>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Good idea/bad idea?</div><div style>Pros/cons?</div><div style>What distro would you recommend? </div><div style>Never done such a thing, so a pointer to a good tutorial would be nice.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Other option would be to get a different controller which would delay shipment and probably eat $350 of profit at least.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Thanks in advance,</div><div style>
Greg Clifton</div><div style> </div></div>