microserver esxi hardware raid....?

deano

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Hi,

is it really worth spend a few hundred on a HP 410 raid card for the micro server when running esxi...?

are there alternative road cards that are suitable..?

anyone moved from non road to hardware road in esxi on these boxes is there much of a speed improvement?

TIA
 
I could always just buy another micro server and use the current one as an iSCSI target :)
 
P400's are pretty cheap just seem to able to find the right cable not much exposure to all this SAS stuff.
 
Hi,

this will be used in a home enviroment.

To answer RimBLock

was going to use RAID 10
Drives are Hitach can't remember model now but 5400 RPM's I believe.
i bee live this is the chipset http://www.amd.com/us/products/embedded/chipsets/Pages/785E.aspx
Linux and FreeBSD, possibly exchange/SBS
little load

I'll take a look at the IBM road card, thanks.

thanks for the link to info regarding the P400.

Created a ESXi server for production at work today with 6 x 74GB 10k SAS disk and a DL360 G5

Seems pretty good, running a few VM's

thanks
 
I've currently got a M1015 in mine which is quite a painless upgrade, remove a couple of cable ties and the mini sas will fit into the card perfectly :)

The only option i've not got round to sorting yet is raid 10 (use to HP raid cards) need to have a read through the manual. It's certainly less drastic than getting a P400 in !!!
 
which card would be better out of the ServeRAID M1015 or the Adaptec 2405 as they are pretty much the same price..... Have now configured 4 x 1Tb 7200rpm hitachi drives in RAID 10 on the ServeRAID M1015 will let you know findings later
 
I'm running raid 10 which is proving to be pretty good on the micro server bottle neck now is the CPU - no surprise there.

I got my M1015 for £60 delivered :) quite a bargain I think.

Performance on the micro server with the m1015 in raid 10 is acceptable certainly better than just a mirror. Think I'll probably end up getting a ML110 G7 with an i3 in it.
 
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