I'm in a evaluation phase of some hw that could be used for setting up a hadoop cluster. This hw is refurbished (hp G6 servers w/ Smart Array 410/i controller) and probably we should/must use it… we haven't it yet. I've read that 410/i controller doesn't allow a JBOD configuration as required by hadoop, is there anybody that could confirm this statement ? Or not ?
Seems that a workaround could be to configure raid0 on every single disk, again anybody confirms it or there is other ways of configuration ? Thank you Rob
Hadoop JBOD disk configuration on HP Smart Array 410/i disk controller
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Best Answer
The Smart Array 410/i controller only allows 2 raid devices to be created without the optional memory card added to it. So if your hardware only has 2 drives, then it would be fine; you can just make it 2 raid0's. If you have more then 2 drives you will probably have to purchase Part #462974-001 - 256MB Battery Backed Write Cache BBWC memory module. If you aren't sure, give it a try in the configuration utility, it will complain that there is a limit on the number of configured raid devices allowed if you need to purchase the memory addon.
I recently setup a ZFS server utilizing one of those and 12 disks in RAID0 mode for each and it performs fine. Since you can disable pretty much all features of the actual raid controller, its effectively the same as JBOD mode.