Try taping off the SMBus contacts on the PCIe connector. Common problem on desktop-class boards with real RAID cards. Here's a pic showing the contacts covered on a PERC: http://www.overclock.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=78411&stc=1&d=1216366968
If you primarily virtualize Windows guests, you can also use free Hyper-V Server and benefit from the greater Windows HW compatibility. Linux guests are supported, but certainly not at the same level as VMware. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Reeves Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 3:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Whitebox ESXI Esata Question Grabbed an hp400+512mb bbwu. Not recognized on this board just sits there dead, damn. That was my first plan. -----Original Message----- From: "Bryan Seitz" <[email protected]> Sent: 8/31/2013 3:24 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] Whitebox ESXI Esata Question +1 for iscsi or an older HP P4xx raid card (can be had with battery + cache on ebay for ~150) On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Chris Reeves wrote: > I had considered that. No opposition to iscsi, but my costs would be higher > then say, a San Digital or Mediasonic esata enclosure. But may be the way I > go > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Julian Zottl" <[email protected]> > Sent: ???8/???31/???2013 8:21 AM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [H] Whitebox ESXI Esata Question > > If you have a spare box around and a couple of like drives, you could install > nexenta or freenas and use ZFS's built in raid. It performs remarkably well > and you would be able to use/learn iscsi :) when you need more speed, you can > buy ssd's and front them as read and write caches for the raid. > > Julian > > Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind > of way... > > On Aug 31, 2013, at 8:48 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Ok, here's something I've never tried but have been thinking about testing.. > > > > Have a whitebox ESXI that just runs basic test services for me.. Xeon > > E3-1275v2 processor, 32G, etc. Anyway, storage right now is just a single > > SATA 2TB Re4. No desperate data on there so I just acronis it off weekly. > > > > But I'm debating this now.. getting a VMWare certified RAID controller is a > > sucky proposition in re-opening this box where it's at. I've seen people > > report mixed results using an eSATA RAID device - which should be > > completely transparent to the OS.. > > > > Anyone try or thoughts? I figured I might grab a mid-level RAID-1 eSATA > > device and give it a go.. -- Bryan G. Seitz
