Datastore question

[tractng]

Hello,

Currently I have one drive (SSD) running the OS and my VMs.  I want to consolidate all my machines at home onto this machine.  I want to reuse the 3ware 9650se card to run a Raid1 and have a few VMs there to act as file servers.  I also want to have a single SATA drive for a VM acting as backup.

For recovery purposes, lets say If I have to reinstall the ESXi, the other datastore on the single SATA drive is recoverable?  Even perhaps the drives on the 3ware card if i reinstall the driver for the card?

TIA,

TT

[Gortee · Accepted solution]

Evening,

I am not 100% sure what you are asking... but here is my stab.  If you have two hard drives:

Drive 1: Has ESXi and some vm's

Drive 2: VM's only

If you wanted to reinstall ESXi on drive 1 this could be done without wiping out the vm's as long as the current partition has room for the ESXi install.

Thanks,

J

[tractng]

Thanks.   I was more concern about the drives on the raid (non OS) set since a driver is needed for ESXi to recognize the controller.  I guess the question is more to the 3ware folks.