Re: Best RAID controller for RHEL

[Wolfgang <wolfgang rpi net au>]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 18:28, taroon toem dk wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure, I haven't really messed around with it much. The utility
that I used is GUI based (Looks identical to the Windows version). But
I'm sure that Adaptec has other utilities that work with the command
line setup.

Wolf