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Improve doc regarding soft raid SRs
- Remove block based software RAID. - Add link to Soft RAID guide. - Add warning on top of Soft RAID guide. Signed-off-by: Samuel Verschelde <[email protected]>
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docs/guides/software-RAID-SR.md

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# Software RAID Storage Repository
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Software RAID for storage repositories is documented here for our user community. However, it is not eligible for official support in a production environment.
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Official support can be provided for pools that have Software RAID SRs, but such support won't cover issues with the storage repositories themselves.
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How to manage a software RAID storage for my VMs?
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XCP-ng has support for creating a software RAID for the operating system but it is limited to RAID level 1 (mirrored drives) and by the size of the drives used. It is strictly intended for hardware redundancy and doesn't provide any additional storage beyond what a single drive provides.

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<td>Software RAID</td>
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<td>**No. Provided as-is**</td>
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Local, with ```mdadm```. Not recommended.
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See our [community-contributed guide](../guides/software-RAID-SR/).
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We strongly recommend using a hardware RAID system instead of software RAID.
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**Software RAID storage integration is offered as-is** and does not come with official support.
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We do not provide support for issues resulting from the choice of software RAID.
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We do not provide support for issues resulting from the choice of software RAID for storage repositories.
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### NFS

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