How to demonstrate fake raid
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I figured out how to demonstrate fake RAID best to somone tonight, since they thought I was full of crap since windows has the driver built in the install even sees them as one drive. Take a USB with ESXi on it and boot it, try to make a data store and show them it sees each drive, not the Fake Raid. Works wonders to show people what's really going on.
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Traditionally this was done with a Linux LiveCD.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Traditionally this was done with a Linux LiveCD.
I didn't have one with me. I did have a USB stick with ESXi on it though. I wonder if newer consumer linux like Ubuntu would now have the drivers built in?
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Possible, but I've not seen that happen yet.
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Looks like Some linux like Arch do. FreeBSD does as well.
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@Jason said:
Looks like Some linux like Arch do. FreeBSD does as well.
Wow. That's not totally surprising but is to some degree. I wonder...
- Which FR controllers are commonly handled.
- Is it from the vendor or just an open source driver.
- If the latter is it just automating MD or is it completely rewritten RAID?
- Why would anyone do this??
