[CentOS] Third-party SATA-RAID cards suggestions
Keith Keller
kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri Dec 6 16:15:09 UTC 2013
On 2013-12-06, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>
> and yes, as has been said before, megacli is a rather messy complex
> command line.
The newer storcli command line tool is slightly less horrifying. There
are also GUI tools, but I don't have a lot of experience with them.
If you have a system drive/array that's not on these controllers, you
can install the OS first, then download megacli/storcli and configure
your big array.
And just as the 3ware CLI is easier to use than MegaCLI/storcli, the
3ware BIOS is easier to use than the megaraid BIOS, and it's fairly
straightforward to build arrays. This is why I often suggest 3ware
over Megaraid for admins who are new to hardware RAID--I found that
solid experience with 3ware's CLI was a big help in deciphering the
incomprehensible MegaCLI/storcli docs.
--keith
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kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
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