ESXI with non standard hardware HDD issues
- by Hurricanepkt
I have 3 very underutilized servers that I am condensing to one of those shuttle PC's with VMWare ESXi
The HDD seems to be the bottle neck right now (the light is almost always pure solid) right now I have a single 1TB Seagate 7200.11 connected by SATA. VMWare ESXi cannot detect it when running in AHCI mode, but does when running in IDE mode. I have read that IDE mode can give a 5% performance hit which might give me enough breathing room.
However, I am open to setting up an external eSATA or some sort of raid to give me more than just the 5%. I am just weary of sinking some money into a bit of hardware without knowledge of whether it will work.
Does anyone know of resources or procedures of how to get this working.