Accessing multiple local HD's or RAID with ESXi 4.0
- by Shawn Anderson
How to I get additional HD's to be recognized and used by ESXi 4.0.
When I purchased my system I had two 2TB HD's, but when I installed ESXi it only recognized one of them. I'm happy to get whatever number of drives that I need (I have a four bay SATA in my Dell T310).
What are some options? RAID? If so, is it supported. I guess I would need hardware instead of software since ESXi is so small.
The VMWare forums (where I've lived for the last two days) are a charlie foxtrot of outdated and conflicting info.
I want to utilize my T310, with 32 GB RAM, 2.8GHz quad core to run many lab Windows VM's. I don't need production level availability but I do want decent performance, even though it's in a lab environment.
A huge thanks to Jim B., Zypher, Helvick, and Jeff Hengesbach who posted answers to my earlier predecessor question on why ESXi was so sluggish.