Another Dell Perc H200 issue

[leeuw]

That is not a bad idea at all.

“The H700 also works out of the box with genuine RHEL 8.5+ and 9.x without needing non-standard kernels”

Does this mean I can simply change the card to H700, connect the raid drives to the H700, migrate the raid drives as virtual disks on the H700 and after simply boot the machine up, without any hassle with incompatible perc controller drivers like happened in this article?:

Stuck Changing perc 6 to perc H200 raid Controller on installed system

In the old days I would have been scared to replace the controller. Not because of drivers, but because uncertainty of compatibility – would both controllers support the array metadata that is on the drives? (If the new controller does not, it can’t assemble the array.) That side of things has improved. In principle one could look up the device ID but most trivial method is by lspci and then the controller has to be plugged into some machine. Not necessarily any drives connected though; just t…

and boot up the almalinux system instantly?

“Bear in mind that when we get to 10.x your system is not going to make the x86-64 v3 cut”

Does this mean form 10.0 The old T310 security updates can not be updated anymore?
Which year will this be?

Thanks. For the outstanding advice. I will check out prices for perc H700.