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終於等到 H700 所需的Sff-8087
寫住Home server 的上半Part先

Hardware

• MB-  MSI Z68A-G45 B3
• CPU – Intel i7-2600
• Memory – 4GB DDR3 1333 x 4
• HBA – Dell PERC H700 512MB with BBU
• Disk – 2TB SATA HDD x5 (3 Brand 4 Models, RAID 5, 2 Logical Disk)
• NIC – Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Dual Port GbE, onboard Realtek 8111D
• Power – Antek 380W Power Supply

Software

• Host – vmware ESXi 5
• guest – pfSense 2.0
• guest – Server 2008R2 as NAS

Side view, overcrowded

MSI Z680A-G45 (B3), HK$9xx have VT-d

Dell PERC H700

ESXi installed on 2GB USB Flash, in picture also have H700 battery backup unit.

Front view – the FAN controller lower the HDD Case fan noise

Installed LSI CIM Provider, can view card status

VT-d enabled in BIOS, can mark device for vmdirectpath I/O

由於PERC 5/i 在VT-d 環境下出現Data Loss Link 所以由Dell order 了張新RAID 卡。可惜淘宝 order 的兩條 SFF-8087 to SATA cable 還未到手，這個週末未能上機。

因為PERC5i 對應 VT-d 有問題，要轉用別一張RAID卡了 (已order Dell H700) 。

在換卡之前，對現有的DELL PERC做了些功課
以下是DELL PERC 對應 LSI OEM/型號

LSIASA1068 http://www.lsi.com/…/LSISAS1068.aspx
LSIASA1068E http://www.lsi.com/…/LSISAS1068E.aspx
LSIASA2008 http://www.lsi.com/…/LSISAS2008.aspx
LSISAS2308 http://www.lsi.com/…/SAS2308 product brief.pdf

MegaRAID SAS 8408E http://www.lsi.com/…/MR_SAS_8408E_PB-Final.pdf
MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP http://www.lsi.com/…/MegaRAIDSAS8888ELP.aspx
MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i http://www.lsi.com/…/MegaRAIDSAS9260-8i.aspx

找了很久也未能在LSI的網頁找到LSISAS2108的專頁。連LSISAS2208也找不到。似所有RAID5、RAID6 的ROC資料也收起了。

以下是相關RAID Controller 的比較 (LSISAS2208 還未有Dell model)

上前有部DELLBlade Server壞HDD，因為有pro support，有兩個(外包)DELL Engine上來幫手REBUILD  >_<"。

我問佢地如何在ESXi 下知道RAID CARD 的status。佢地就打了好幾個電話，過了半個鐘後同我講返 『現時沒有方法』…

其實在佢地上來之前，我已用MegaCLI for vmware 睇完.

在ESXi 4下裝MegaCLI好簡單，只在到LSI個WEB 下載，並且抄到ESXi 入面。再入SSH chmod 返個檔案 executable 就可以用。

但到了ESXi 5 就出事了。有個檔案不見了。

./libstorelib.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR:Could not detect controller.
Failed to get ControllerId List.
Failed to get CpController object.

找了一會也找不到libstorelib.so。最後把心一橫，由ESXi 4.1內抄過來，可以正常執行了。

LINK
MegaCLI version 8.02.16

Equallogic 在星期一發放了SAN-HQ 2.2 Early Production Access，但因Support site在星期二出現問題而未能下載。
今日終於Update了新版.

這個版本加入了以下功能:

• 95th Percentile Reporting
• Support for Multiple Server Connections
• Live View (can monitor member/volume in 3 sec interval)
• Support for PS Series V5.1 Firmware features, including:
• Audit logging
• Data Center Bridging (DCB) configuration information
• Additional Data Reports
• Group Diagnostics Report
• Alerts Report
• RAID Evaluator
• Across-Group Summaries
• Event Communication Infrastructure Upgrade
• Support for the Dell EqualLogic FS7500
• Usability enhancements
• New alerts: drive firmware out-of-date notification and disk protocol mismatch.
• Improved volume type indicator.
• Temperature display settings.
• Increase syslog file size for event messages and its log directory path verification.
• SAN HeadQuarters Client startup verification dialogs, including firewall detection,
• server logs detection, and server update detection.
• Configure parameters used by the SANHQ Server

Live View

RAID Evaluator

可以用來計算在修在不同RAID TYPE 下的效能

不是淘返來的 Broadcom 5709 Dual port GbE, 有iSCSI offload, 行PCI-E x8

本來要10GbE CX4 接口, 但後來order了10GbE Stacking.
幸運的是Stacking與否只差一粒100ohm電阻.

這張是除去電阻後

當日都幾旺場。先是Datacenter個門口裝修, 再有鄰居裝FIREWALL (4隻2U Juniper SSG520), 再加埋我地成車電腦.

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