[08:58:16] <taavi>	 <3 for the approve this change on all devices homer feature
[08:58:48] <XioNoX>	 taavi: :) credits goes to volans|off 
[09:28:45] <Emperor>	 morning folks. Anyone got an experience of using "Boss" cards in Dell systems? Dell have stopped producing the NVME cards we've put in previous Apus nodes, so are proposing instead connecting the two SSDs-for-OS via a Boss card that does hardware-RAID-1 . Obviously that'll mean a new partman setup, but I'm wondering if it'll also mean endless hassle with RAID monitoring no longer working...?
[09:29:01] <Emperor>	 context is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388241#10768488
[09:56:59] <vgutierrez>	 Emperor: we managed to avoid the BOSS card for cp servers.. so nope
[09:57:23] <vgutierrez>	 but our setup is fairly simple, just 2x6.4Tb NVMes
[10:00:38] <vgutierrez>	 how many disks do you need on those Apu nodes?
[10:01:07] <vgutierrez>	 we got the usual RAID-1 for the system and then 2 NVMes used for caching
[10:01:25] <vgutierrez>	 and we managed to get a setup without the boss card
[10:04:06] <Emperor>	 They have 24 8TB spinning disks in, plus the NVME (for Ceph bluestore journal/block.db), and then 2 SSDs for the OS.
[10:15:56] <vgutierrez>	 at least for us (Traffic) I think it's the first time they offer boss cards
[10:18:37] <Emperor>	 Mmm, Robh's comment "not common but not the first time we've used one" made me think we might have someone with experience with them
[14:21:35] <robh>	 Emperor: We have them in like 2 different custom hosts over the years, never a standard config.  sorry if my comment mislead ya!
[14:21:46] <robh>	 I don't recall what exact hosts though, they are not common.
[14:22:21] <robh>	 the main issue is the boss has to do raid so the partman config would have to reflect that, which could be annoying.
[14:48:54] <Emperor>	 robh: hopefully partman can be persuaded to do the right thing...