Hi,
We purchased a package about 3 years ago which was an HPZ820, equipped with a Perc 800 raid card and MD1200 with 12 x 1Tb drives.
The deal was good because Dell head office had an enterprise agreement with the company we bought the software / hardware package.
We would like to upgrade the drives to 4Tb drives. But since the release of this package Dell has dropped support for its Storage software on all non Dell servers. So I am a little concerned about being able to correctly set up my raid. 12 x 4Tb is a bit of coin if I have to drop down to then have to rethink everything.
We currently have very crude monitoring (of the MD1200) using the LSI Mega Raid software but it seem to be very limited in what it can do.
Any thoughts?
Can I run a different Raid card on the MD1200 or are we stuck with the Perc / MD1200 combination.
Thanks in advance.
Rodney