RAID configuration

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clay842
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RAID configuration

Post by clay842 »

Is it possible to configure RAID 1 inside the Guest by creating multiple virtual hardrives? Has any one one done this?
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Re: RAID configuration

Post by Sasquatch »

Only software RAID. There is no hardware controller for it.
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Re: RAID configuration

Post by happyrun »

J use guest ubuntu 10.04-3 64 bit server with two virtual disk in raid 1 software configuration + lvm
the host is a linux suse 11.4 64 bit
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Re: RAID configuration

Post by wb666greene »

Only software RAID. There is no hardware controller for it.
Has anyone had success converting a disk using the Intel "matrix" raid into a VM. I'm not interested in preserving the raid, I'd just like to be able to boot the drive in a VM since the MB died and finding a replacement is close to impossible. Since it was RAID-1 I got the data I need off by mounting one drive on Ubuntu 10.04 using one of those SATA to USB adaptors. The OS in W2K, but there is some old software on there I might still need to run for maintenance and don't relish the thought of trying to find it all and re-install.

Having it raid saved me when one drive died, I replaced and rebuilt without issues, but then the motherboard died and no luck finding a replacement.
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Re: RAID configuration

Post by vbox4me2 »

That should be strait forward, but you will need to disable the raid services/software before dumping the drive as an image and simply assign a ide inside VBox, then boot into safemode and check eventlogs.
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