[ILUG] Why RAID

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions]

> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> 
> > Typically the dl380's have a HP/Compaq 641 raid controller either
> > on board or as a PCI-X card.
> 
> Does it have it's own SCSI controller ASICs? Some proliants have a 
> wee 'raid slot' (not PCI or anything) where you can plug in a RAID 
> 'card' that uses the onboard sym53c89x SCSI controllers.

It has onboard standard scsi controller, some of the other models have
the 541 raid controller on board, but afair the dl 380 comes with a PCI
card. 

I recently was involved in setting up a DL380 cluster using the HP
clustering kit, very very tasty comprising of an MSA 500 storage unit
with a few 15k rpm disks in a raid 5+1 array and 2 DL380 servers. :)

Paul