Hello, Am sending this email here as I think it is possibly the most appropriate place. If not, please disregard/ignore and my apologizes. Recently I have bought a new Dell PowerEdge VRTX Enclosure (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-vrtx/pd) that houses Dell PowerEdge M520 Blade server (http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-m520/pd). This solution (http://bladesmadesimple.com/2013/06/a-detailed-look-at-dell-poweredge-vrtx/), released specifically for the SMB market currently only works with Windows Server 2008+ and VMware ESXi. This due to a controller called the Shared PERC8 RAID Controller (http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/driverdetails?driverid=7HPN0) which apparently is not supported in Linux. I have been trying to get feedback from Dell for nearly 1 year now but to no avail. Dell say's it is not supported and that it is the community that needs to provide the drivers first. When I asked if they where providing support to the community I never received a response. What I don't understand is how VMware ESXi which I believe uses the Linux Kernel is already supported and it can work with said controller. Possibly because it does not use MegaRAID drivers? Not sure. This email is either to discuss this matter further or aimed at requesting support for the Dell Shared PERC8 RAID Controller in order to allow such platforms as the VRTX and enable SMB all the advantages of using this hardware coupled with Linux thus allowing for a very budget friendly infrastructure. lspci -nn (on Dell PowerEdge M520 Blade) ... 01:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] [1000:0073] (rev 03) 08:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 IOV [Thunderbolt] [1000:002f] (rev 05) ... Sincerely, -- Istvan Hubay Cebrian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
