Re: Best RAID controller for RHEL

[taroon toem dk]

Wolfgang wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:57, Tommy Davis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm about to receive a number of new servers built upon Intels' new serverboard 
> > (Jarrell SE7520JR2), and would like to hear recommendations for good raid 
> > controllers. We only use raid 1.
> >
> > A good raidcontroller would mean:
> > 	1. mature driver
> > 	2. commandline based management (primarily for checking raid status)
> > 	3. Supported in RHEL3
> >
> > I've got a choice between
> >
> > 1. Adaptec SCSI RAID Card 2130SLP
> > http://raid.adaptec.com/ASR-2130S.html
> >
> > or
> >
> > 2. Intel SRCZCRX SCSI RAID, 128 MB, Zero Channel
> > http://cache-www-o.intel.com/cd/00/00/18/33/183364_183364.pdf
> >
> >
> > I'm not keen on the Intel controller, as very few people seems to use it and 
> > intels driver support is not the best. The adaptec seems to have better driver 
> > support, but I'm unsure about how stable their driver is and especially if I can 
> > monitor raid status from scripts.
> >
> > The older Adaptec boards who used the dpt_i2o driver had excellent performance 
> > and good management utilities, but the utilities doesn't work on recent Adaptec 
> > controllers.
> >
> > Has anyone got experience with the above controllers, or other recommendations?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
> I run an Adaptec 2200S in Raid 1. Runs very well, and the monitoring
> utilities from adaptec work great too.. And the performance is also very
> good.

Can you monitor the raid status from commandline utilities so it's easy 
to fit into Nagios or simialr ?

We haven't got X or similar installed on our servers.

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