Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH9R RAID 1, both Disks available?

[rileybloke]

Hello,

I believe the ICH9R SATA raid controller is supported, but I have 3 x SATA HDD in my machine.

1 x HDD (non RAID) for ESX4i installation

2 x HDD (RAID 1) for datastore

However, the ADD storage setup can see all 3 HDD's?

This embedded SATA controller is on an Tyan S5375 mainboard.

Has anyone encountered this kind issue before?

Thanks

Phil

[J1mbo]

ICHx RAID is software driven (requiring the host CPU to process it). ESX(i) doesn't support this; only true hardware RAID.

As you have seen, the disks can be used individually of course. You may also want to consider running ESXi from a USB flash disk to save a disk bay.

Please award points to any useful answer.

[rileybloke]

Thanks, didnt know that software raid was not supported.

[AndreTheGiant]

As written before soft RAID isn't supported at ESX level.

Use the disks as normal disk.

Or buy a real RAID card.

For SD installation of ESXi see also:

Andre