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bfeeny
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Any Zero Channel Raid ZCR options for ESXi?

I have an older Intel SCB2 motherboard that has on it an Adaptec AIC-7899 SCSI controller and using an Intel SRCMR ZCR raid card. The SRCMR was gdth based which is no longer supported in ESXi. The AIC-7899 is, however I would like RAID. Does anyone know of any ZCR based raid cards supported by ESXi? I am looking for SCSI (u160/u320) based raid.

I know to check the HCL but the HCL lists part numbers which aren't immediately telling as to whether thats a ZCR card or not.

Brian

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Gompho
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Yeah there's one that I know of the Intel RAID Controller SRCZCRX. It's supported on ESX / ESXi 4.0 U1 , ESX / ESXi 4.0. I'm trying to get it working on ESXi 3.5 at the moment by customizing the oem.tgz file on the install CD. My server is a Sunfire v60x and isn't 64bit so I can't install ESXi 4.0 on it. I've pretty much read everything there is to read about Zero Channel Raid and ESXi over the last couple days so if you have any questions just ask.

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