Supermicro 2U Twin Servers

[NoSpamInOz]

I am researching and don't know much about VMWare ESXi.  I want to know if I have a 2u Twin server with 4 motherboards, 8 cpu's, RAM and storage, can I have all of those resources managed under one ESXi instance or would it be 4 seperate instances?

If it is 4 seperate instances, how do blade servers recognize the additional blades?  Is it different version of ESXi?

Cheers

[weinstein5]

Welcome to the Community - First question is the system is supported - this can be checked by searching the HCL - http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.

If it is supported I would think each motherboard would be seens as a seperate server and then would be a seperateinstance of ESXi 

[Samcer]

Hi,

I don't know your system, anyway Stratus ftServer (twin Server) actually works as a single server with doubled HW.

This architecture protects you against any HW crash, since it happens in 1 of the 2 paired systems.

you don't have to install any software twice, the OS recognizes the platform as 1 system

HTH

Sam

[depping · Accepted solution]

NoSpamInOz wrote:

I am researching and don't know much about VMWare ESXi.  I want to know if I have a 2u Twin server with 4 motherboards, 8 cpu's, RAM and storage, can I have all of those resources managed under one ESXi instance or would it be 4 seperate instances?

If it is 4 seperate instances, how do blade servers recognize the additional blades?  Is it different version of ESXi?

Cheers

4 separate instances. Each server will have ESXi installed and can talk to eachother over the network. Each host will have "local" storage, not shared unfortunately, so you would need something like the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance.