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Virtuali3ed Enthusiast
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Jun 1, 2009 1:27 PM

Perc 5i?

 

Hi Forum, any idea if perc 5i is working with esxi4?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

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1. Jun 1, 2009 1:38 PM in response to: Virtuali3ed
Re: Perc 5i?

I have a Perc 5/E that works under ESXi4.  I think they're the same card just that my /E has an external connector?

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2. Jun 1, 2009 1:50 PM in response to: Scissor
Re: Perc 5i?

Thanks for the confirmation.

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3. Jun 1, 2009 3:24 PM in response to: Virtuali3ed
Re: Perc 5i?

I have Dell PowerEdge 2900 with PERC 5/i and its working without problems.

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4. Jun 1, 2009 3:40 PM in response to: Webio
Re: Perc 5i?

Is that with ESXi 3.5 or 4.0?

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5. Jun 1, 2009 4:32 PM in response to: Dave.Mishchen…
Re: Perc 5i?

ESXi 4.0

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6. Jun 1, 2009 4:35 PM in response to: Webio
Re: Perc 5i?

Thanks.

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7. Jun 28, 2009 8:42 AM in response to: Webio
Re: Perc 5i?

I know some ctrl cards does not show logical disk, but only separate disk as native units.

Are you able to use ful raid functionality (RAID1 or RAID 5)?

Are you using sas or sata disks?

 

Plz, post your cfg.

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8. Jun 28, 2009 9:26 AM in response to: Virtuali3ed
Re: Perc 5i?

 

It may work but its not on the HCL for ESXi 4.

 

 

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

 

 

If you do have a problem and you call into VMware they may not support you.  I have tried ESXi 4 with a PERC 6/i controller and it installed fine but would not boot after the install.

 

 

david

 

 

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9. Jun 28, 2009 2:39 PM in response to: COdlk
Re: Perc 5i?

 

PERC 5i - internal SAS/SATA RAID controller

 

 

PERC 5e - external SAS/SATA RAID controller (in Dell used for connecting MD1000 or MD3000)

 

 

PERC 5i is very similar to PERC 6i (newer generation). The difference is that PERC 6i has memory integrated on the card and supports additionally RAID 6 and 60.

 

 

I have installed ESX 4 on PE2950 with PERC 5i (2 disk in RAID1) without any problems.

 

 

Good luck

 

 

Onsik

 

 

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10. Jun 28, 2009 5:16 PM in response to: COdlk
Re: Perc 5i?

I have a Perc 5i 256 MB write cache Working with ESXI 4 using 4 SATA 3.0 drives in RAID 5 with BBU unit. No issues so far I was also able to expand RAID 5 array by adding an additional disk keeping all the datastore and VMs on it intact and eventually was able to expand the datastore itself.

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11. Jun 29, 2009 1:56 AM in response to: Virtuali3ed
Re: Perc 5i?

Great!

That was exctly what i hoped you wrote.

 

Ciao.

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12. Jun 30, 2009 8:41 AM in response to: serno
Re: Perc 5i?

 

There may be a typo on the HCL. 

 

 

ESX 4.0 is listed as compatible with both the PERC 5i and 6i controller however; no PERC cards are being shown as compatible with ESXi 4.0.

 

 

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13. Jul 20, 2009 5:33 AM in response to: Cody Page
: Perc 5i?

Following your suggestion......

 

I've just got 2 DELL PERC 5/i + BBU and 512 MB (Ebay €. 110,00 each one)

I've plugged in my ML115 G5 Quad Opteron  with 4x 2048 MB Corsair DHX Dual-Path DDR2

Plugged 4 sata cable to 4 x 500 GB Barracuda

Switched on

2 minutes for configuring RAID (created only one datastore with max capacity available with speed format)

Booted with my ESXi 4.0 Build 164009 from my USB Pen Drive

System has been recognized immediatly (it seems that storage attached to PERC is Parallel SCSI even if it is SATA)

 

 

Now it's time to upload some vm's

 

Ciao.

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14. Dec 12, 2009 2:37 PM in response to: Virtuali3ed
Re: Perc 5i?

does work but you have to "vt-d" disable on bios

vt-d is very nice option on vanvmware.

I need for my vt-d pci adapters

I have perc 5 / i tested on ESXi 4

 

6 perc or know someone with vt-d option works?

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