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  • 1.  Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH9R RAID 1, both Disks available?

    Posted Mar 30, 2010 11:23 AM

    Hello,

    I believe the ICH9R SATA raid controller is supported, but I have 3 x SATA HDD in my machine.

    1 x HDD (non RAID) for ESX4i installation

    2 x HDD (RAID 1) for datastore

    However, the ADD storage setup can see all 3 HDD's?

    This embedded SATA controller is on an Tyan S5375 mainboard.

    Has anyone encountered this kind issue before?

    Thanks

    Phil



  • 2.  RE: Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH9R RAID 1, both Disks available?

    Posted Mar 30, 2010 11:57 AM

    ICHx RAID is software driven (requiring the host CPU to process it). ESX(i) doesn't support this; only true hardware RAID.

    As you have seen, the disks can be used individually of course. You may also want to consider running ESXi from a USB flash disk to save a disk bay.

    Please award points to any useful answer.



  • 3.  RE: Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH9R RAID 1, both Disks available?

    Posted Mar 31, 2010 10:35 AM

    Thanks, didnt know that software raid was not supported.



  • 4.  RE: Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH9R RAID 1, both Disks available?

    Posted Apr 04, 2010 06:20 AM

    As written before soft RAID isn't supported at ESX level.

    Use the disks as normal disk.

    Or buy a real RAID card.

    For SD installation of ESXi see also:

    Andre