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February 19th, 2010 15:00
Xenserver 5.5 UPD 2 - Dell R710 (new 6Gbps LSI SAS 2008 adapter)
Hi all
We purchased 2xR710's, one came with a PERC 6i raid controller the other with one of the newer, 3rd gen 6Gbps PERC HS200 (LSI SAS 2008 IC) adapters.
I chose these servers with the intention of installing Xenserver 5.5 on both (connected to a Dell PV MD3000i) in a Pooler Master // Slave setup; in order to take full advantage of Live motion, however I am unable to install Xenserver on the R710 containing the HS200 PERC (mpt2sas) as it does not appear to be supported according to Dell (by Xenserver - it does not see the disks and throws out a Unrecoverable error following the license acceptance, even Dells own Xenserver install does not see them).
Has anyone successfully managed to install Xenserver on this setup // Raid controller? if so where did you get the mpt2sas driver from? I have already tried LSI and there is no downloads as far as I can see.
I really don't want to go down the VMWARE route (supported in V4 update 1!!!), but if we can't find a solution I may have to (as I think I may have a hard time getting it swapped out for a replacement, though I will try).
Thanks
Dev Mgr
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February 20th, 2010 11:00
Why don't you just install XenServer on the SD card and then connect to your SAN for the shared storage option that's needed for live motion?
ThorpedoUK
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February 22nd, 2010 10:00
Management won't go for it - they want to use the full redundancy provided by RAID 1 on the internal disks and ofc VM's on the SAN.
Dev Mgr
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February 22nd, 2010 20:00
In that case I'd go back to sales and have them swap the new H700's for the trusty old PERC6i. It's not like there's a performance difference between 6Gbps and 3Gbps SAS when using 2 drives in a raid 1 for just the hypervisor.
ThorpedoUK
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March 1st, 2010 06:00
Thanks - this is exactly what we are in the process of doing, I did manage to get Xenserver to install (thanks to some help from the Citrix Xenserver forums and a pre-built mpt2sas driver) but it would not boot.
Annoying as we are one node down for a while and I wanted to build the cluster and test prior to production, it but hey ho it can't be helped! :emotion-2:
dncottingham
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July 21st, 2010 03:00
Citrix has now released a driver disk for XS 5.5 update 2: see http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125974.
Best wishes,
David.