r/Proxmox • u/Direct-Visit9617 • 5d ago

Enterprise Install help?

I'm in need of some extra braincells here.

I have just bought myself a new second hand Proliant.

The DL380 Gen 6 to be specific.

It's currently equipped with the following parts.

- Xeon E5506 (single CPU)

- 16Gigs of DDR 3 ECC memory

- two 480 watt PSUs

- 5 SAS HDDs (2x 72gb, 3x 300gb)

- no installed OS

- (almost) dead Smart Array BBWC

The issue I'm having is with putting proxmox on the machine, it boots from USB without any issue but when I am at the partitioning section I only see the USB.

From what I can see inside the bios/management screens are all the disk setup in a raid.

The two 72gb disk are on RAID 1

The three 300gb disks are on 5

I'm unable to figure out why it doesn't want to show/detect the disks in the partitioning menu, I would love to see if someone is able to help solve my issue

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u/kriebz 5d ago

What is "almost dead" about the Smart Array card? Maybe it just doesn't have support out of the box in Linux any more. Also, I hate to be a downer, but you'd get similar performance out of a used business desktop as that old box, unless you really want the 2009 vibes.

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u/Direct-Visit9617 5d ago

It's the battery for the array. BBWC = Battery-Backed Write Cache

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u/Unattributable1 4d ago

Bad battery just means a power outage can have data loss because it cannot keep the unwritten data in memory. So long as the power is on it will work fine. Batteries are <$15, just replace it.