Hello to all.
This week we have been trying to setup RAID 1 with Clearos. As I am not a linux person it is very difficult for me to do so in the setup of the drives. We have been trying hardware RAID cards but non seem to be recognized by Clearos. The only one I got working was a on-board RAID from a Gigabyte Motherboard.
As most would agree RAID is needed for most Servers as a fail over.
I have read all the pro's and con's on Hardware RAID against Software RAID.
I would really like to use the Clearos RAID but don't understand how to setup this up. Is There no better guide available on the net so i can have a look at this option.
For the developers my be a good idea to re design the RAID setup in the software so one can better implement RAID. Something in the lines of giving the user an option of different RAID types and then Clearos will do the setup for you.
Could happen in a later version?
In the meantime help needed on my side with RAID setup
Many thanks
Shaun
This week we have been trying to setup RAID 1 with Clearos. As I am not a linux person it is very difficult for me to do so in the setup of the drives. We have been trying hardware RAID cards but non seem to be recognized by Clearos. The only one I got working was a on-board RAID from a Gigabyte Motherboard.
As most would agree RAID is needed for most Servers as a fail over.
I have read all the pro's and con's on Hardware RAID against Software RAID.
I would really like to use the Clearos RAID but don't understand how to setup this up. Is There no better guide available on the net so i can have a look at this option.
For the developers my be a good idea to re design the RAID setup in the software so one can better implement RAID. Something in the lines of giving the user an option of different RAID types and then Clearos will do the setup for you.
Could happen in a later version?
In the meantime help needed on my side with RAID setup
Many thanks
Shaun
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some positive criticism.., I my opinion ClearOS has not a very user friendly (fool proof) raid manager. At the moment i use a Synology NAS for storage far more user friendly. You can easily add, remove, drives, repair your RAID array, change from RAID 5 to 6. I really like to see such manager on ClearOS. A other thing I often hear is that RAID is dead especially hardware RAID.. We have to move over to ZFS, BTRFS (not sure if I agree). The RAID 5 and 6 levels of BTRFS are not finished. ZFS is more a system for Unix . Then you have solutions as unRAID, flexRAID, snapRAID maybe there are more. I did some testing with snapRAID on ClearOS. I build it from source to test. One big problem you have no pooling on RHEL (as far as I know). So you can't create big pools of data your limited to the size of your drive. On Ubuntu you AUFS. I hear good things of AUFS in combination with snapRAID. -
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Hi Shaun, the installer supports software raid out of the box?
You just need two drives with the same partition layout, then you create a virtual drive (/dev/mdX) which mirrors the two partitions. The glue that holds all this together is the tool 'mdadm'. You can configure a RAID1 array after install but it's much more tricky
I have been running software RAID here for a long time without problems (MD1)
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