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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 16:40:53 EDT 2013


You need to change base OS from Win7 to 2k8. RAID5 has been declared a
"SERVER" item.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Host OS is Win 7 Pro. We have a 180GB SSD for boot drive, 2x 2TB 7.2k SATA
> drives mirrored for backup and 6x 600GB SAS 15k drives for data acquisition
> of some sort. Customer asked for RAID 5 with a hot spare. Win 7 doesn't
> support RAID 5 in any way shape or form. So when I went Googling, I found a
> link to using MDRAID under Win 7 under (or in) Virtual Box. Not saying that
> this is the best/only solution, just polling for comments, instruction,
> advise and all the good stuff that ALE folks are so good with.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
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