Please help with Dell PERC H355

metacreo · Sep 28, 2023

Hello, friends.
Planning to buy server with Dell PERC H355 and not found any info in hw-probe.

Can anyone share their experience of FreeBSD on a Dell PowerEdge T350 or other machine with H355 ?
Front bay 8 drives with hot-swap via PERC H355 raid controller.

H355 is supported by FreeBSD?

Thanks in advance

pboehmer · Sep 28, 2023

I just turned up a Dell PE-R7525 that has this controller. We are running it in "NON-RAID" mode with two SAS and two SATA drives (2x ZFS mirror pools). No issues as far as I can tell.

metacreo · Sep 29, 2023

Thank you.
Ok l give it a try. The main thing for me is that the boot is successful.

richardtoohey2 · Oct 1, 2023

Unfortunately Dell has made PERCLI closed source so no MegaCli or StorCli sort of tool any more.

metacreo · Oct 2, 2023

I will launch zfs stripped mirror with 4 SAS drives, so I don`t need these tools. It is enough for me that the OS sees the disks. Thanks.

hljtma · May 21, 2024

pboehmer said:
I just turned up a Dell PE-R7525 that has this controller. We are running it in "NON-RAID" mode with two SAS and two SATA drives (2x ZFS mirror pools). No issues as far as I can tell.

Which version of FreeBSD are you using on that server you said it is working with the H355 PERC ?

pboehmer · May 21, 2024

13.1-REL-p2

hljtma · May 25, 2024

I am currently using a PERC H355i on FreeBSD 14.0 and it works.