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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 9.x => Topic started by: flaviove on November 28, 2018, 11:01:09 AM
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Hi All
Anybody has expirience on setting up a SME Server using RAID 5 on a Dell PERC H330?
I couldn´t iven recogneze it using SMS 9.2 version.
Any help will be great.
Thanx in advance.
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As far as I can see you need a driver for that card.
Have a search of the interwebs for:
"CentOS 6 DELL PERC H330"
https://www.dell.com/support/home/uk/en/ukbsdt1/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=p1fjj
It doesn't look like it is a supported option out of the box.
However, I'm not sure how you would add that driver in during the install process. Yes, it isn't hard to build an rpm with their srpm, but that doesn't help for installation.
https://serverfault.com/questions/773399/installing-perc-driver-during-centos-install
Seems to indicate you would need to compile the driver from source and load it during install. Not impossible, but a lot of hoop jumping.
You may also have to do a lot of dancing about with updates etc.
Might be easier to get yourself a card that is supported. Or use it with a hypervisor and run SME as a VM (which is what lots of us do)
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Thanx a lot. I gess it will be better to get another card or use as a VM.
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Thanx a lot. I gess it will be better to get another card or use as a VM.
NP. Seems sad, but I don't know an easy way to do it.
Personally I'd get yourself a hypervisor - say Proxmox or similar, and then run SME in a VM. I think I only have one instance of SME on real hardware now - all the rest are VMs on Prox.
Makes life so much easier.... :-)
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It is ok. We have a solution.
I Will take your advice and setup it on a VM.
Thanx a lot for your time. I really appreciate it.