Hi poeple, I'm thinking to install VMWare ESX 3.0 at my house for some testings few ideas of mine.
As you may know, ESX can be installed on IDE/SATA drive, but you cannot create VM's nor create VMFS partitions unless your hard disk is SCSI one. At first, I thought about plugging some SATA drive to the machine since it's driver is working almost like SCSI (if I'm not mistaken)... wrong move. VMWare still doesn't let me create VMFS on it. Many people recommend to use ACARD solution (which is a small board you connect to your hard disk. Problem is, that this solution doesn't fit my SFF machine and it requires an additional SCSI PCI Card. Does anyone know about such a PCI card (preferably low profile) which I can connect an IDE or SATA device and it's feeding data to the OS just like it was a SCSI hard disk? or better-yet - is there a way to "cheat" VMWare to make it think my IDE drives are "SCSI" so I can create VMFS partitions? Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
