I've just built the following system and currently have ESX 3.5 deployed and running. The plan is to build a VMserver system so this
is some what just a 'what the hell' test.
All pricing is given in UK pounds without sales tax
Motherboard -
£46.39 -
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, AMD 780G, S AM2
3 core Processor -
£87.99 -
AMD Phenom™ X3 8650, Toliman Core, Socket AM2 + , 2.3GHz, HT 3600MHz, 3.5MB Total Cache,
Memory -
£83.98 -
4 x 2GB Scan Twin DDR2 PC2-6400 (800MHz), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-15
Disk controller -
£143.15 -
LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-6 Kit 6 Port SATA Raid Controller PCI
Network Card -
??.?? -
3 year old PCI 1Gbit Intel card I had laying around
Disks -
Add any old SATA based disks you have laying around
CD -
Any old PATA CD Drive
PowerSupply -
Needs to support about 350W if you have 6 SATA drives installed.
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As for performance use the Disk controller in RAID 10 to get the best from it - it also does not like creating disk segments greater than
2TB as they do not strip correctly across all the attached disks.
Roger
Hi Roger,
I have similar mother board with 3 core Phenom, but I do not have the LSI Mega RAID disk controller.
I think the installer cannot access the disk using the on board SATA controller.
If you have any workaround please let me know.
I get the following error.
Trying to install the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0
- Did not install, probably could not find the in built SATA disk driver.
Error message shown.
Installation operation Failed!
The installation operation has encountered a fatal error:
Unable to find a suppoerted device to write the VMware ESX Server
3i 3.5.0 image to.
The following system information will assist the
VMware Support team with your problem. Please
record this information before proceeding.
System Information:
Manufacturer: Unknow
Model: Unknow
Service Tag:Unkow
BIOS rev:F3
(Enter) Reboot
Thanks
Saugata
Try booting ESXi off a thumb drive and using the on-board SATA just for your local storage.
On my home setup i found that ESX did not recognise the onboard Marvell PATA controller so i couldn't use my old PATA CDROM. I had borrow a SATA CDROM for the install.
This was on a Intel P35 based board, so a little different to your AMD 780, but just a heads up.
Any work around for using local SATA Raid controller on GA-MA78GM-S2H AM2+ Mother board?