Comments on: Adding an Xserve RAID https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/05/29/adding-an-xserve-raid/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 01 Jun 2018 06:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: David Kuder https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/05/29/adding-an-xserve-raid/comment-page-1/#comment-197180 Wed, 30 May 2018 02:45:09 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=8461#comment-197180 I ended up getting an SGI Infinite Storage disk shelf expansion (among many other fibre channel disk shelves) and attaching it to an Intel Xserve. Sadly macOS on it wasn’t able to reliably maintain all the disks in a happy state. After a week of struggling I got proxmox VE installed on the Xserve (Intel Xserve1,1’s have 32-bit efi and are a pain to get linux onto), ZFS RaidZ-6 spread across a mix of 400GB & 600GB drives, with XPenology ontop of proxmox seeing a single 4TB drive and sharing it out over the network.

Some of my adventures with the other disk shelves are documented in the vcfed forums: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?59348-Unlocking-older-LSI-Disk-Arrays-to-support-3RD-party-disks

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