On 04/24/2011 10:00 PM, David Brown wrote:
But there is also no doubt that the MegaCli command line tool is
absolutely terrible in comparison to mdadm. It is downright
user-unfriendly. I haven't bothered with the LSI gui tools - they are
useless on a server, where there is no place for X. The "webbios"
bios setup is okay, but only available when rebooting the machine -
it's fine for the initial setup. So the only real tool that will work
over a ssh session while the system is running, is MegaCli. Since it
is statically linked it works with any system, which is nice. But the
interface is painfully unclear, sadistically inconsistent, and badly
documented. If an emergency situation arose, I could explain mdadm
and dictate commands over the phone to a backup admin - there's not a
chance I could do that with MegaCli.
You can run the GUI on a different machine then the raid is on. The SW
contains a "server" app and the X client side. The server app needs to
run on the actual server, the GUI can run on any network connected machine.
Cheers,
Rudy
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