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Pille66
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‎05-08-2007 04:53 AM

SATA Raid controller

hello NG

i bought a new PC (homeuser) and want work a little with ESX 3.0 server. but the problem is the Raid array.

i have only a PCI-Express slot free.

Highpoint have a couple of SATA Raid controller, like HighPoint RocketRAID 2310. but i am not sure works ESX Server with them

how have expirience with this

thx for hints

greetings

juergen

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oreeh
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‎05-08-2007 05:23 AM

There are a few SATA RAID controllers known to work

\- LSI Megaraid 150/4

\- Adaptec 2x10SA

\- the ones used in the certified servers (take a look at the PDF)

don't know if there are PCIe cards among them

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Pille66
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‎05-08-2007 05:48 AM

Hello Oreeh

LSI and adaptec are 64 bit cards.

but what for a pdf do you mean ?

can you send me an link plz

Greetings

Juergen

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oreeh
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‎05-08-2007 06:10 AM

Take a look at these PDFs

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_systems_guide.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_io_guide.pdf

some of the servers actually use SAS/SATA RAID controllers

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