Hi all,
We're doing a Ceph build and are using some rather old HP DL360p gen 8 servers which have integrated P420i RAID controllers with 1GB caches and BBUs.
We're going to be filling these servers with Intel SSDs (most likely S4510 960GBs), but from Googling I'm a little concerned. Does anyone know if:
a) this card will work (and be stable) with the Intel SSDs that aren't HP-branded?
b) whether the card will be a bottleneck for getting the max speed out of these SSDs?
If the answer is yes, I'm considering putting a HBA card into each server. Are there any recommended cards that others have used in gen 8 servers? Would a HBA card (eg a LSI) mitigate the firmware compatibility issues of non-HP disks or is this a backplane issue?
Also curious whether this server would handle 12G disks with a 12G HBA, or whether the backplane is a bottleneck restricting everything to 6Gbps?
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
We're doing a Ceph build and are using some rather old HP DL360p gen 8 servers which have integrated P420i RAID controllers with 1GB caches and BBUs.
We're going to be filling these servers with Intel SSDs (most likely S4510 960GBs), but from Googling I'm a little concerned. Does anyone know if:
a) this card will work (and be stable) with the Intel SSDs that aren't HP-branded?
b) whether the card will be a bottleneck for getting the max speed out of these SSDs?
If the answer is yes, I'm considering putting a HBA card into each server. Are there any recommended cards that others have used in gen 8 servers? Would a HBA card (eg a LSI) mitigate the firmware compatibility issues of non-HP disks or is this a backplane issue?
Also curious whether this server would handle 12G disks with a 12G HBA, or whether the backplane is a bottleneck restricting everything to 6Gbps?
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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