RAID technology with ESXi

[DJMK4]

Hi all,

Just a quick question, I am planning on buying 2 x 2TB drives for a Dell 755 small form factor ESXi, I belive these boxes have RAID0,1 capability

Is it possible to use them in RAID mode with ESXi if I am booting ESX off a USB stick? so the 2 x 2TB drives will be synced?

Apologies if not, my RAID knowledge is lacking especially when it comes to VMWare.

 

[DJMK4]

I will have to check the built in RAID controller to see if its supported

Yes ESXi hypervisor is booted from a USB, my drives are then purely used for VM and datastorage

If it is, it just a case of enabling it in the BIOS then what configuration needs to be done within ESX? is it somewhere around the data store configuration settings?

WIll have to have a read up at some point.

If not I will just have to add 2 separate drives and use them as two individual datastores, and shift data between the two with backups.

 

[DJMK4]

Think I will leave raid with my setup then

Thanks all