Re: esx raid

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hardware support under ESXi is limited - as you say it's an Enterprise
level
product really.

But, Dell SAS/5ir and Dell Perc/5i pci-x raid cards get good results under
ESXi.  Both can be picked up reasonably cheaply on eBay and are monitored
under the VMWare Infrastructure Client.

I've just installed a SAS/5ir in my HP Proliant ML115 G5 machine with a
couple of 15,000 rpm SAS hard drives in a RAID0 array and it's screamingly
fast :-)


Martyn (currently migrating Asterisk to a VM under ESXi)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen George" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:35 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] esx raid


> Good to see some interesting chats about virtulization going on.
>
> One thing I would add is that if you are considering esx (AFAIK) you
will
> need to be carefull about using RAID. If you currently rely on
software in
> the operating system to monitor the raid arrays and to tell you when a
> disk has failed etc, then these software systems will not work due to
esx
> now being in the way. Instead you will need a fancy RAID card or other
> system (HP = ILO or Dells DRAC) that MAY allow external monitoring of
raid
> status.
>
> esx is an enteprise product and is designed to work with storage that
is
> not located in the box running esx, i.e. Storage Area Networks that
have
> there own monitoring systems.
>
>
> Probably the easier method is to use VMWare Server/Player to host your
> virtual machines. This is installed on top of another OS that has been
cut
> down to the bare minimum install (to provide as much grunt as possible
to
> the VMs) and with all the monitoring tools installed to tell you when
> things start to go pear shaped.
>
> ttfn
>
> Peter.
>
>
>
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