I have a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i Raid controller that we've already installed Nexentastor 3 Community Edition on. We setup a raid-10 array that and put a ZFS pool on top of the hardware. As I understand, in this configuration ZFS/Nexentastor will not be able to tell when a disk fails in the array. Obviously, this is not optimal.

Since the Dell Perc 5/i controller is a rebranded LSI controller, you should be able to use the MegaCli utility to manage the array and monitor its condition. I had seen in a separate forum that the Perc 5/i is very similar to the LSI MegaRAID 8480E, so I tried installing the MegaCli utility at the link below. However, I have not been able to successfully install the utility.

http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS8480E.aspx

Here is what happened when I tried to install MegaCli:

root@Nexenta2:/files# pkgadd -d MegaCli.pkg
Warning: unable to relocate '$BASEDIR'
mv: cannot move `solmegacli-8.02.16/' to a subdirectory of itself, `solmegacli-8.02.16//var/lib/dpkg/alien/solmegacli/reloc/solmegacli-8.02.16'
mv: cannot move `solmegacli-8.02.16/' to a subdirectory of itself, `solmegacli-8.02.16//opt/solmegacli-8.02.16'
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please use 'date -R' instead.
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please use 'date -R' instead.
solmegacli_8.02.16-1_all.deb generated
(Reading database ... 41397 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace solmegacli 8.02.16-1 (using solmegacli_8.02.16-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement solmegacli ...
Setting up solmegacli (8.02.16-1) ...

In /var/logs/dpkg.log:

2012-03-23 20:40:19 status unpacked solmegacli 8.02.16-1
2012-03-23 20:40:19 configure solmegacli 8.02.16-1 8.02.16-1
2012-03-23 20:40:19 status unpacked solmegacli 8.02.16-1
2012-03-23 20:40:19 status half-configured solmegacli 8.02.16-1
2012-03-23 20:40:19 status installed solmegacli 8.02.16-1

So... I've got three questions:

1. Is it possible to install and use MegaCli in Nexentastor 3?
2. If so, how can I install MegaCli on Nexentastor 3? Suggestions welcome!!!
3. If not, is there a better way to monitor the condition of the Perc 5/i hardware raid? Our 2950 does have a DRAC card, so can I use that to monitor the raid condition?