esx raid

["Helen George" <ukha_d@xxxxxxxx>]

Good to see some interesting chats about virtulization going on.

One thing I would add is that if you are considering esx (AFAIK) you will
need to be carefull about using RAID. If you currently rely on software in
the operating system to monitor the raid arrays and to tell you when a disk
has failed etc, then these software systems will not work due to esx now
being in the way. Instead you will need a fancy RAID card or other system
(HP = ILO or Dells DRAC) that MAY allow external monitoring of raid status.

esx is an enteprise product and is designed to work with storage that is
not located in the box running esx, i.e. Storage Area Networks that have
there own monitoring systems.


Probably the easier method is to use VMWare Server/Player to host your
virtual machines. This is installed on top of another OS that has been cut
down to the bare minimum install (to provide as much grunt as possible to
the VMs) and with all the monitoring tools installed to tell you when
things start to go pear shaped.

ttfn

Peter.



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