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Tittan
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intel server board S5000PSL compatible sata raid controler

Hello all,

I'm dealing with an old Intel Server with a intel server board S5000PSL and I was able to install ESXi 4.1 u3 on USB Stick. Newer versions just didn't worked.

The problem is about the raid on sata hds. I want to do at least a RAID level 1 (mirror) but the hypervisor detects two independent discs and therefore two datastores.

I've loaded the offline-bundle.zip from instel support site with no success.

My only chance is to buy a hardware raid controller that do RAID 1 at least. So can anyone help me to shoose a god solution at a nice price?

Thanks all.

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DanielOprea
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Hi,

In the manual for your server: http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/d36217006_s5000psl_userguide.pdf he say this:

"The RAID drives can be managed and re-configured using the Intel® RAID Web

Console 2 utility that is on the Intel® Server Deployment Toolkit 2.0 CD. Instructions are

provided in the Software User’s Guide: Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II,

Intel® Integrated Server RAID, and Intel® RAID Controllers SRCSAS18E and

SRCSAS144E. This guide is on the Intel® Server Deployment Toolkit 2.0 CD."

So, download the CD from here: Intel® Download Center  and performs the RAID configuration with this livecd.

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Daniel

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