[ale] MD RAID 5 under Virtual Box under Win 7

[JD]

It isn't clear to me - what is the hostOS and what is the clientOS?
What is the purpose for the hostOS and what is the purpose of the clientOS?

Why is VirtualBox involved at all?  Virtualbox is great for desktop-on-desktop
virtualization, but I'd never deploy it if a server was involved. There are
many, better, solutions for any hostOS.



On 04/17/2013 12:40 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> OK, put down the flame throwers, this is a US Government system, so we can't
> change the OS.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Good idea/bad idea?
> Pros/cons?
> What distro would you recommend? 
> Never done such a thing, so a pointer to a good tutorial would be nice.
> 
> Other option would be to get a different controller which would delay shipment
> and probably eat $350 of profit at least.
>