If you have really a H730 in our R230 than create a Diskgroup of all of your DISKs and when creating the VirtualDisk(VD) just enter 20GB instead of 100% of capacity. After that you can create a additional VD with the rest of all capacity.
This ends in a setup with 2 LUNs and when install your ESXi just pick up the small one and when ESXi is up and running you have to create a Datastore on the large LUN. So ESXi and your Data is protected by the RAID5 and you will get the speeds of all of your spindels. When ever you need to reinstall ESXi your VM Data is protected because the both LUNs are separated.
If you try to install ESXi 7.0 increase the the size of the Boot LUN from 20GB up to 140 because ESXi installer would like to create 128GB OS_DATA Partition.
Another way... you can install ESXi on a USB stick. Some poweredge servers have a internal USB slot otherwise you can plugin the stick from the outside. But iam not a Fan of USB.
Origin3k
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May 23rd, 2021 00:00
If you have really a H730 in our R230 than create a Diskgroup of all of your DISKs and when creating the VirtualDisk(VD) just enter 20GB instead of 100% of capacity. After that you can create a additional VD with the rest of all capacity.
This ends in a setup with 2 LUNs and when install your ESXi just pick up the small one and when ESXi is up and running you have to create a Datastore on the large LUN. So ESXi and your Data is protected by the RAID5 and you will get the speeds of all of your spindels.
When ever you need to reinstall ESXi your VM Data is protected because the both LUNs are separated.
If you try to install ESXi 7.0 increase the the size of the Boot LUN from 20GB up to 140 because ESXi installer would like to create 128GB OS_DATA Partition.
Another way... you can install ESXi on a USB stick. Some poweredge servers have a internal USB slot otherwise you can plugin the stick from the outside. But iam not a Fan of USB.
Regards,
Joerg
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May 23rd, 2021 06:00
R230 does not support IDSDM. As @Origin3k mentioned I would recommend to install OS on slice VD from same physical disk group.
R230 have an internal USB port which can be used for OS installation
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r230/r230_om/usb-ports?guid=guid-a41b12aa-86cf-4335-92b9-4e0254f8c796&lang=en-us
dellUser3344
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May 23rd, 2021 09:00
Thanks Joerg for suggestion. Separate VD is even better approach than what I suggested, so will try it that way.
Shine, thanks for IDSDM info.