[Cialug] KVM Virt & Server hardware

Barry Von Ahsen vonahsen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 00:11:02 UTC 2018


Can you disable the HW RAID and just have them exposed as disks?


-barry




On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 12:41 Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've tried adding the hspa drivers via kernel parameters using this
> advice... hmm I can go back and try again when I get back to working on it.
> I appreciate the help :)
>
> I heard not too long ago here I could get a vps at linode fairly
> inexpensively. is that still the best if I want to Virtualize on  a Vps?
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:09 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > See this forum thread. One poster was able to add options to allow it to
> > work.
> >
> > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47011
> >
> > -dc
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 10:46 AM Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > HP P400i on a HP Proliant G? server... <-- the ? is either 5 or 6.
> > >
> > > thank you
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:34 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > What RAID card are you using?
> > > >
> > > > -dc
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:30 PM Kyle H <khamil8686 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >   I was starting to get a KVM (Virtualization) server up for
> > > > demonstration
> > > > > for Oct's meeting but I found the disk shelf I have has RAID array
> > > > drivers
> > > > > that were dropped from the CentOS 7 kernel, so no RAID array for me
> > > with
> > > > > CentOS 7 unless I go through my same vague instructions and
> discover
> > > > > something new in a process I've repeated several times. This is one
> > > > > possible solution but I'm hoping to avoid it right now as my home
> > > machine
> > > > > complains when virtualizing w/ few resources.
> > > > >   I've found tutorials to install the RAID drivers in a Centos 7
> > > install
> > > > w/
> > > > > anaconda documentation and  using a self made driver disk, but have
> > not
> > > > had
> > > > > success yet. The docs I found were sparse in the driver disk area
> but
> > > > > seemed to be the best around. Does anyone have a better tutorial or
> > > > > documentation source? Another option is a newer server to have a
> > newer
> > > > raid
> > > > > array... *does anyone know of anyone getting rid of a server hw
> > surplus
> > > > > with a server that could run Centos 7?*
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you
> > > > > Kyle
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