Re: HP ProLiant Gen10 & HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR
John Johnstone
> I also have a Proliant DL360p but it's an older Gen8. My primary use
> for it is a zfs supported file server under FreeBSD 11.1 The Gen8
> P420i controller causes heartache under FreeBSD. I finally gave up
> trying to get direct access to the disks and gave a raid5 virtual disk
> to zfs.
I'm not sure what your expectation was but the Smart Array hardware RAID
controllers I've seen from HP are the same as IBM / Dell in the sense
that the controller presents a logical disk to the host for all RAID
configurations, RAID 0 or otherwise. Host access to a disk where the
controller acts as just a HBA isn't possible. It's a purposeful design
difference between a RAID controller and a HBA.
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John J.
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Scott Lamons
The gen10 smartarray is "entirely different"
>
> In the Linux world the new driver is called "smartpqi" (no longer hpssa).
> The adapter initializes in an "adaptec" mode and
> can be driving in limp mode with old/existing aacraid drivers. Ideally,
> the smartpqi native driver should be ported/developed.
>
> MicroSemi is in charge of hardware and drivers on this now -- would you
> like me to get you some contact info?
>
Link of interest (freebsd): https://storage.microsemi.com/
en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/asr-3154-24i/
I was told that Microsemi was targeting FreeBSD 12 for porting this driver
however from the link above it looks like it's available for FreeBSD 10 and
11?
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Scott Lamons <sc...@freebsdfoundation.org>
wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I forwarded your message to some folks I've been working with at HPE on
> getting us access to their latest hardware for enablement of FreeBSD. I
> would also encourage you, and others on this list, to please contact your
> HPE rep and ensure they are aware of the need to support FreeBSD.
>
> I would also be very interested to learn more about your use case for
> FreeBSD if you're willing and able to share (publicly or privately). This
> would help me make the business case to HPE.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Scott Lamons <http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlamons>
> Program Manager
> FreeBSD Foundation <http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/>
> sc...@freebsdfoundation.org
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Scott Cooper <scott....@adestra.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’m attempting to install FreeBSD 11.1 (either –RELEASE or –STABLE) on an
>> HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 however it is not detecting the RAID controller
>> which is a HPE Smart Array P408i-a…
>>
>> I can see that it isn’t included on https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ma
>> n.cgi?query=ciss&sektion=4 however I was hopeful that maybe someone on
>> this list might have some more experience with this newer generation HP kit
>> and be able to help or if anyone is aware of this being worked on?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Scott
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