"Select a disk" installation on HP Micro Server Raid issue

[lorenzoguglielm]

Hi to everyone,

I'm trying to install esxi 4.1 on a Micro Server HP

(http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/it/it/sm/WF02a/15351-15351-4237916.html)

I have 4 physical HD (1 Tb per HD)

I have created with the raid utility embedded n°2 raid array (every array has the logical size of 1 Tb)

During the installation of my esxi 4.1, where she asks to me wich volume has to be installed on it, I could see only 4 physical disks, there is no trace of my two logical volumes created with raid utility.

Nothing in the "Remote" section of the page.

Any idea it will be appreciated

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Lorenzo

[DSTAVERT]

The embedded controller is not a hardware based RAID controller. For RAID support you would need a supported hardware RAID controller. http://vmware.com/go/hcl The best you will get is the individual drives with your current setup.

[lorenzoguglielm]

I was reading tech specifictions of micro server.

It seems a real hardware raid controller, anyway there's no way for me to offer to esxi installation process two slices, only 4 physical disks.

Now it should be happy if i'd have the chance to create logical volume WITH esxi, a sort of software raid utility in esxi to create mirrored datastore.

Any idea?

Thank you

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Lorenzo

[mcowger]

ESX does not include any ability for 'software raid' or similar.  Your choices are to get a different server or to use the individual disks.

[DSTAVERT]

I don't know whether all models have but some Microservers offer PCI-e slots that could be used to add a hardware RAID controller. Check your documantation. Dell Perc 5 cards, although no longer sold by Dell, are available quite inexpensively by online stores and auction sites. You can also look at the whitebox HCL on http://vm-help.com for other RAID controller choices.