On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:52:59AM +0200, Robert von Bismarck wrote: > > Sorry , but the first question would be is the old PV220S > > still supported by ESXi? > > What kind of drives are in, 73GB or 146GB? May be it's more > > easy to make this with some big local drives? > > > > Years before we used some PV220S for fileservice and they > > were slow at all. We didn't use split mode.
> Been there, done that. > We have used a PE2850+PV220S connected to a PERC 4/E as an ESXi box. > ESXi had no issues recognizing the PERC as a storage device, but it > cannot monitor it, as there's no ESXi hardware monitoring module for it. > So it won't be able to send you snmp traps when a disk/fan fails on the > PV220, and it will not appear in the "health status" applet in the > vsphere client either when it's degraded. This means a walk into the > datacenter every morning to see if the dreaded amber light is lit (or > use a webcam looking at your rack if you're lazy like me :-) We are using a pair of PERC 4/E's with a PV220 in split mode with ESX3.5 (not ESXi). it worked basically fine for a couple years. We did not really push the performance. we started having issues with it recently; we powered down one of the attached servers and the array on the other one went offline, requiring a hard reboot of ESX. More recently, with only the one server attached, it flaked out again, requiring another reboot. I do not know for sure but i assume this problem is with the enclosure management module. The RAID cards are much newwer. As soon as my new disks arrive I'll have a pair of PERC 4/E's to sell if you're interested :) danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs July 11-15, 2010 - Columbus, Ohio http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-oarnet/ _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
