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‎08-22-2013 04:00 AM

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HI

 

I have an issue to get vmware to detect RAID0 on Z420. did someone have a driver for vmware to get it work?

 

Thanks

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‎09-10-2013 05:33 PM

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I also have a z420, that was purchased specifically to be used as  an esx5.1 host.

 

If you are using the built in Intel RST(e), you cannot use RAID. You have to use it in Sata/AHCI mode. Then it will detect out of the box on esx4.x and 5.x (but of course you loose any drive redundancy/striping abilities).

 

I haven't tested the other onboard INTEL SCI controller so can't state whether that will work or not.....

 

I would suggest getting a  RAID controller that is supported by ESX (the 9260-8i that is an option on the z420 build, is compatible, that is what I'm using, with the raid battery and write caching enabled it works quite well (have 4x 1tb 10k sata drives in a raid 10).

 

Also keep in mind that running ESX on these workstations is not officially supported by HP, which is probably why this question has gone un-answered by any forum mods.

 

Steve

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