Best Value HW Raid Controllers

Jupiter

I have a couple of owned DELL C1100 L5520/L5630/L5639 running ESXi that would like to upgrade with HW raid controllers (e.g. HP P410) and multiple SSDs.

Was wondering if anyone has any experience to share ...

Thx

Patrick

P410 w/256mb/512mb/1gb cache module

Edit:
C1100 supports LSI 2008/9260 so you could use LSI 9260 if you want to. PERC h700/800 otherwise.

Jupiter

INIZ said: P410 w/256mb/512mb/1gb cache module

Did you had any issues with Dell C1100?

That was my first choice but i have seen mixed reports.

INIZ said: C1100 supports LSI 2008 so you could use LSI 9260 if you want to.

yes but the P410 is such an amazing value to resist

Patrick

@Jupiter said:
Did you had any issues with Dell C1100?

I don't personally use them but know few people/hosts using the Dell C1100 with the P410 without issues for several months now.

SpeedBus

Afaik the P410 will work only on HP machines, the P400 might work on the dell machine

EDIT: I maybe wrong.

Jupiter

SpeedBus said: Afaik the P410 will work only on HP machines

Is that firmware problem?

Patrick

@Jupiter said:
Is that firmware problem?

My bad, you'd want a PERC H700/800 in that case which is dells own or the LSI option.

Ref: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-c1100-spec-sheet-en.pdf

Never used Dell RAID cards so can't speak for them, LSI has been great.

SpeedBus

Jupiter said: Is that firmware problem?

Something of that sort as I recall, but yeah as @INIZ said, the Perc is the way out as suggested on dells website as well.

Jupiter

INIZ said: My bad, you'd want a PERC H700/800 in that case which is dells own or the LSI option.

The only problem is they cost as much as the server

Jupiter

SpeedBus said: Something of that sort as I recall, but yeah as @INIZ said, the Perc is the way out as suggested on dells website as well.

I think will ship one P410 as concept proof and see what happens.

Someone mentioned in the past an IBM rebranded LSI controller ... cannot track the post anymore

Patrick

@Jupiter said:
Someone mentioned in the past an IBM rebranded LSI controller ... cannot track the post anymore

Yes it seems like it'll work, worth a shot;
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1295804

Virtovo

@Jupiter said:
Someone mentioned in the past an IBM rebranded LSI controller ... cannot track the post anymore

IBM M5014 and M5015 can be re-flashed to 926x equivalents.

Jupiter

@Virtovo said:
IBM M5014 and M5015 can be re-flashed to 926x equivalents.

INIZ said: Yes it seems like it'll work, worth a shot; http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1295804

You guys are amazing ...

In less that 15 min and in real time problem solved ...

I think there should be a donate button everywhere

http://www.servethehome.com/flash-ibm-serveraid-m5014-lsi-92608i-firmware/

Virtovo

@Jupiter said:

You're welcome