Hi,
I'm currently considering which hardware RAID controller to buy and I've spent some time researching different cards. However, it's hard to get a good idea about the available software for the different cards.
Some seems to only have Windows-based software (which means that the BIOS setup must be used for all tasks which kind of defeats the purpose of the RAID setup), some seems to have weird, awkward, closed-source, certified-to-work-on-redhat-only software and so on.
So my question is if there is a hardware SCSI RAID solution that allows all essential features to be monitored and controlled. Essential features would mean such things as online expansion, designating spare disks, creating new RAID sets, checking status, deleting RAID sets, etc.
So far I'm leaning towards the LSI MegaRaid 320-1 controller, but so far I've only seen the megamgr/megamon software from LSI (which seems very non-open and redhat specific) and reading values from /proc (which pretty much excludes only monitoring, no control) as alternatives.
So, basically I'm looking for some feedback on how people manage their hardware RAID controllers under Linux.
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