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April 14th, 2011 00:00
Boot from PowerVault MD3200i
Can the PowerEdge R415 server to boot from the PowerVault MD3200i and whether access from the ESX VM to volumes in the array.
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Dev Mgr
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April 14th, 2011 07:00
You'd have to have the iSCSI offload option on the NIC. If you do, you might be able to get it to work. However, to make your life 1000x easier, I'd just install ESX/ESXi on an SD card or internal harddrive and then have ESXi connect using iSCSI to the MD3200i and run the VMs from the storage on the MD3200i.
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April 14th, 2011 08:00
You can, but don't.... We tried it out, a simple raid 1 two drive mirror is by far the better option. SD cards are OK, but as you grow, you will out grow the space available on such drives. In other words it just stinks when you want to do something command line in ESX and can't because your out of space.
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April 15th, 2011 08:00
As 4.1 is the latest version available as ESX (all never version will be ESXi only), and ESXi only partitions about 1GB for itself (and the rest of the internal drives is formatted VMFS), the disk space factor isn't that big of an issue.
One thing about the SD card option is that unless you get an R810 or R910 I think, it's not set up in a raid 1, so if the SD card fails, your server goes down (but in an HA cluster the other nodes will bring the VMs back up in a few minutes). This is why running 2 harddrives in a raid 1 is definitely a good (better) choice too.