What you need to do is to install MDSM (Modular Disk Storage Manger) on a windows host & you can set the IP’s for management from there. Here is a link to download MDSM.
The default IP address for the management is 192.168.128.100 & 192.168.128.101. When you connect an ethernet cable to the management ports & then to your local network if you have DHCP on your network it will automatically assign an IP to the management. Also when you change the IP’s address you need change them one at a time & log out of MDSM & log back in to ensure that the changes take effect correctly.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
thank you. I have 10 sas disks. and this is going to be for esxi. Is it better to have one large raid disk group or create 2 or 3 disk groups? what do you recommend in terms of raid levels. I think raid1/0 might be a lot of wasted space.
That depends on what you are going to be running in ESX. If you are going to be running just a file server than that might be ok to run on a RAID 1/0, but if you are going to be running a database then smaller disks groups and virtual disk are better.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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February 6th, 2013 09:00
Hello tdubb123,
What you need to do is to install MDSM (Modular Disk Storage Manger) on a windows host & you can set the IP’s for management from there. Here is a link to download MDSM.
The default IP address for the management is 192.168.128.100 & 192.168.128.101. When you connect an ethernet cable to the management ports & then to your local network if you have DHCP on your network it will automatically assign an IP to the management. Also when you change the IP’s address you need change them one at a time & log out of MDSM & log back in to ensure that the changes take effect correctly.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
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February 6th, 2013 10:00
thank you. I have 10 sas disks. and this is going to be for esxi. Is it better to have one large raid disk group or create 2 or 3 disk groups? what do you recommend in terms of raid levels. I think raid1/0 might be a lot of wasted space.
thanks
DELL-Sam L
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February 6th, 2013 16:00
Hello tdubb123,
That depends on what you are going to be running in ESX. If you are going to be running just a file server than that might be ok to run on a RAID 1/0, but if you are going to be running a database then smaller disks groups and virtual disk are better.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.