[geeks] ZFS on Dell R720?

[Nathan Raymond]

While not for the system in question, I thought I'd mention a tip regarding
the fairly recent PowerEdge R7415 and PERC H330 Mini, which can be placed
into HBA mode without any need to flash it. The steps are:

System Setup Main Menu
Device Settings -> Integrated RAID Controller 1: Dell PERC <PERC H330 Mini>
Configuration Utility

PERC H330 Mini Configuration Utility
Main Menu -> Configuration Management -> Clear Virtual Disk Configuration
Main Menu -> Controller Management -> Advanced Controller Management ->
Switch to HBA Mode

I've used this on a number of our in-production systems for ZFS in Linux
(Proxmox).


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 3:17 PM Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:

> Does anyone here have any experience with the Dell PowerEdge R720 and
> ZFS?  What I've been able to determine is that the Dell Perc H710P
> controller it comes with does not do JBOD out-of-the-box, *can* present
> each drive as a single-drive raid0, and *can* be reflashed with
> initiator-target mode firmware.
>
> Anyone have anything else useful to tell me?
>
> (I have had such an utterly horrible experience so far with the QNAP
> Hero series NAS I bought that I'm ready to factory-reset it and return it.)
>
>
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