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November 9th, 2024 19:36
Booting ProxMox from PCIe plugged-in NMVe SSD
I was to install ProxMox hypervisor on 1TB SSD using NMVe adapter plugged into PCIe slot #1. The installation process can see it but Boot Manager cannot. Am I doing something wrong or Boot Manager can see only what's plugged into 8x2.5" slots at front of chassis?
My plan was to install hypervisor on NVMe for obvious reason ( 2 redundant SSDs ) and use SAS or SATA slots as NAS or multipurpose storage. Is it doable on my PowerEdge R630 ( with BIOS 2.19 ) with PERCH330 Mini?
Thanks, Dragec.
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November 12th, 2024 00:50
Hello thanks for choosing Dell and welcome to our community.
NMVe adapter plugged into PCIe slot #1 can't be used for a Boot device. We use BOSS for that. Hope the read below can help your understanding and let us know if you have any further questions.
https://dell.to/48LTtB2
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dragec
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November 23rd, 2024 20:52
@DELL-Young E I am aware of BOSS but following your link I realized that PowerEdge R630 is not on the list of supported systems.
So why BIOS is listing it but not finding during boot. Is it intentionally like that to force using expensive BOSS card or something else?
Never mind, I have another problem to deal with - 4 1.8 TB SAS 10K disks that my ProxMox cannot see. In the meaning time my ProxMox installation is sitting on two RAID 1 SATA SSDs. At this time NVMe SSDs can be used as fast storage.
Thanks anyway.
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November 25th, 2024 05:26
Hello, is it possible that you might be using a 3rd party storage? Could you provide the part number/ label image for "NMVe adapter plugged into PCIe"?
But again you resolved the issues already.
"ProxMox installation is sitting on two RAID 1 SATA SSDs. At this time NVMe SSDs can be used as fast storage." ->so you installed OS on SATA SSDs and PCIE NVMe is detected.
So you are working on OS/Storage drive detection issues, and it is again out of scope, the OS is not supported, I'm afraid.
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dragec
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November 30th, 2024 01:26
This is ORICO PDM2 Expansion Card PCI-E 3.0x4 with two M.2 NVMe and one SATA socket.
The raiser came with the HW package and I just added one ( to try ) NVMe 3.0x4 SSD and successfully installed ProxMox there.
iDRAC System Inventory shows it, see below:
After Proxmox installation when rebooted it fails. When I open up BIOS->Boot Settings it shows "unavailable proxmox".
My point here is to use NVMe SSD for booting, not SATA SSD.
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Drago Kurkic
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December 2nd, 2024 06:07
Hello,
"After Proxmox installation when rebooted it fails. When I open up BIOS->Boot Settings it shows "unavailable proxmox"." That's because UEFI boot loader cannot see the drives with drivers it has.
When you have a 3rd party controller, I'm afraid you have to go to the vendor for support.
Also, BOSS is not supported on R630.
https://dell.to/3Ozs5Nu
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January 20th, 2025 17:59
Dear Drago
Did you ever find a solution? I'm having a similar problem using a Dell raid controller which was pre-installed on my R550. Sometimes it manages to start but most of the time it fails and it says in the BIOS: "unavailable proxmox".
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January 20th, 2025 19:39
Proxmox installed on NVMe starts fine when you remove all others OS installations from Boot Managed. I did few more ( RHEL 8, CentOS 7 ) for testing RAID controller in NBA mode. So in order to start it I opened Boot Managed and removed all listed and after rebooting Proxmox is started. Simple doesn't like Boot Manager when sitting on NVMe drive.
Hope you can use the same trick.
My only problem now is bunch of Seagate SAS disks pulled out of EMC which can see in iDRAC but I cannot do anything about them. Simple none of the OSs can see individual drives as devices. Tried CentOS 7 where I expected proper driver for PERC controllers but it shows me enclosure for the associated PERC H330 Mini.
I was able to download some Dell OMSA utilities and they can find the disks on specified controlled but I cannot perform any change, like format, initialize etc.
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January 20th, 2025 20:27
@dragec Do you mean delete the boot option: "unavailable proxmox" and then reboot?
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January 21st, 2025 00:03
@Qlii256 At least on my R630 with 8x2.5" slots it worked out. Maybe not right away, but after I installed RHEL on HDD while preserving NVMe installation ( ProxMox) I did cleanup of Boot Manager and my hypervisor came up fine.