raid

I received some good feedback about my post on systemd-networkd and bonded interfaces on Rackspace’s OnMetal servers, and I decided to write about another use case.

Although Citrix recommends against using software RAID with XenServer due to performance issues, I’ve had some pretty awful experiences with hardware RAID cards over the last few years.

Before we get started, I really ought to drop this here:

Working with the RAID configurations on Linux can be a little involved if all you have is hpacucli.