On Thu, November 2, 2017 4:43 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2017-11-02, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> >> If you have not Dell server hardware my choice of [hardware] RAID cards >> would be: >> >> Areca >> LSI (or whoever owns that line these days - Intel was the last one, I >> recollect) >> >> With LSI beware that they have really nasty command line client, and do >> not have raid watch daemon with web interface like late 3ware had (alas, >> 3ware after they were bought out several times by competitors were drawn >> down out of existence). > > I believe Broadcom now owns LSI. LSI killed the 3ware line soon after > they bought it, so the MegaRAID line is it from them now. > > Seconded on the horrific LSI command line tools. Actually they have two > tools, MegaCli and storcli. They're both horrible, storcli slightly > less so. OTOH once you get your arrays configured you can forget about > storcli (at least until a drive fails). > > There are Nagios plugins that can check the status of LSI controllers, > arrays, and drives. The plugin is nice even if you don't use Nagios; > it'd be pretty easy to write a short shell wrapper that sent email if > the plugin status wasn't OK. Thanks, Keith, you just solved one of my problems (and I do use nagios, so life is even better ;-) Valeri > > --keith > > -- > kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++