From a development point of view however, I can understand that proxmox will not support software-raid. I fully agree with lborkey, Proxmox VE is almost perfect, and the inclusion of software-raid would make Proxmox VE the perfect solution. Now there's a decent raid-like implementation In the meantime, I'll be in the corner fiddling with Solaris and ZFS. Label it an "expert" install option if you have to, but please, make this wonderful tool even better by including something many will surely find useful. So, please, consider including this on your standard install. It's your perrogative, I know, and proxmox saved me quite some work later on, but why should't it also have given me the liberty to choose for myself wether or not I wanted sw RAID? I don't want it out of spite, I need it because I have no other alternative. The difference is, I had way more trouble then I should, just because you chose to impose the no sw RAID rule.
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just like I did when I chose proxmox in the first place. I recognize the risks you presented, I evaluated the and accepted them. When I use proxmox on such a machine, I'm gonna have to waste a couple of hours just to get a raid setup, copy the info to it, resize LVMs and fs, etc, and I'm gonna end up with a config that you recomend against. Still, when I am installing a system on a machine that has no RAID card, I like to be able to rely on "good" old mdadm. There are a huge number of discussions on the matter online as to which applications should use which implementation. True, hw RAID can be better for some applications, just as sw RAID is better for others. but I digress (and bashing RAID 5 is beating up a dead horse) Also, if you say stuff like sw RAID isn't fit for procduction and use something like RAID 5. It's not cache + batteries either (oh, also, batteries die), because lack of cache is a real problem with RAID 5 for instance. It's not only performance either, because a good hw RAID can give most sw implementations a licking. If you ever lost a controller, had to wait 2 weeks to get oa new one and hunt down older firmware because the more recent one doen't recognize your array, you'll be wishing you had sw RAID, I can promisse you. It's not a matter of "sw raid is innapropriate for a production evnioronment".
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Now, in regards to sw vs hw RAID, the argument isn't a simple one. Still, there are few other solutions and RAID is the most common by far, so we have to live with it. First and foremost, RAID is old, obsolete and should die. I've been gathering info on RAID, as I need to get a new NAS that'll accommodate different types of data including databases and user homes (they have to be on the same machine, budget restrictions).