Comments on Virtual Infrastructure Tips - VMware: My ESXi home lab - the Blue Bad Boy

I forgot to thank you for your blog. :) Now, thanx...

2011-07-18T15:23:35.590+02:00

I forgot to thank you for your blog. :) Now, thanx for the quick answer. -We have now the problem to get the RAID up and running. We have ESXi 4.1 U1 and two 2TB HDDs. First we used the OnBoard Intel Matrix then we switched to the Other Intel ESRT2. It would be good if there is now a fix to this Problem. :) Thanx again.
Greetings
LAAN

Yes, both NICs worked with an out-of-the-box insta...

2011-07-18T13:39:11.710+02:00

Yes, both NICs worked with an out-of-the-box installation, no tweaks necessary. I have also tested that seamless NIC failover works by disabling first one then the other. I also read some of those posts, I believe it was an earlier build of 4.1 that experienced that issue.

Hi, do you get the second NIC on the S3420 running...

2011-07-18T09:37:16.207+02:00

Hi, do you get the second NIC on the S3420 running? I've heard that ESXi is only "realizing" one.

Yes I have. ESXi is installed on a 4 GB USB dongle...

2011-05-05T08:02:09.077+02:00

Yes I have. ESXi is installed on a 4 GB USB dongle and boots from that. A 1 TB disk is attached with SATA and this disk is added as a VMFS volume. Works like a charm.

thanks for posting this. I am setting up with simi...

2011-05-05T01:38:53.051+02:00

thanks for posting this. I am setting up with similar hw. Have you been able to use the local SATA disks as vmfs - were you able to add SATA disk as datastore without issue ?

According to the Intel documentation, the onboard ...

2011-04-20T14:37:42.711+02:00

According to the Intel documentation, the onboard RAID is software based, see http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s3420gp/sb/s3420gp_tps_r2_4.pdf page 15 and page 70.
At vm-help.com (http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php) it is stated that software RAID is not supported. Other than that, I've seen a number of posts where it hasn't worked - so I'm fairly certain that it will not. Jakob

Will the onboard RAID work with esxi if I wanted t...

2011-04-20T12:23:24.051+02:00

Will the onboard RAID work with esxi if I wanted to run two 1TB disks in RAID-1? I have poked around, and some have had success, and others not so. Thanks for the reply. :)

nice setup glad to see some home labbers mixing it...

2011-04-17T20:31:06.139+02:00

nice setup
glad to see some home labbers mixing it up
still amazed what we can do for the prices I'm seeing
good luck & looking forward to seeing what you're doing with the lab

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