Supermicro X9SCM-F owners and ESXi 5...

[Pythagorus]

Hey guys,

First of, I'd like to wish everyone of you a Happy New Year. All the best, health first!

I just finished building myself a development server with the following hardware:
Supermicro X9SCM-F board
Xeon E3 1230
16gb 1333Mhz DDR3 ECC UDIMM
2 X 1TB

I set up the RAID in the bios, but while googling my life away this afternoon, I realized that the onboard raid is not supported by ESXi 5...

I want to have 2 virtual machines and make sure I can have a mirror as a protection...
What are you guys using for your machines with multiple VMs as your RAID solution?
I'm leaning towards getting a SAS/SATA-RAID card, mainly Adaptec 2405...

Also, how are you guys handling the fact that you can only use 1 nic out of the 2 nics?
Is there a homebrew driver around that would fix this for ESXi 5?

* Edit *
My 2 main OS that I want to use is Windows Server 2008 R2 and FreeBSD.

 

[NetJunkie]

I use Synology boxes for my shared storage.

 

[DuronClocker]

Intel® 82579LM and 82574L

The 82574L is supported out of the box, but the 82579LM isn't, but there is a third-party driver that should work. Look a couple threads down on this forum.

 

[Pythagorus]

Thanks bud!
For anyone who falls on this thread, I am including the link here
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1607992

What about the raid?
NetJunkie, could you elaborate a little bit more?

 

[NetJunkie]

www.synology.com

I use a DS1010 for my lab.

 

[Nate7311]

I've had really good luck with the Qnap NAS boxes as well.

 

[dashpuppy]

I've had really good luck with the Qnap NAS boxes as well.

witch models ? I just bought a EOL one but the price was right. TS410U ( 300$ )

 

[Pythagorus]

What exactly are you guys using your NAS for?
Are your VMDK files on there and the VMWare host uses it?

 

[NetJunkie]

What exactly are you guys using your NAS for?
Are your VMDK files on there and the VMWare host uses it?

Yep. That way you can use the clustering features such as vMotion and HA.

 

[QHalo]

witch models ? I just bought a EOL one but the price was right. TS410U ( 300$ )

This is what I have. Works very well.

http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_feature.asp?p_id=165

 

[nerdalertdk]

Yeah just the tread is was thinking off starting..
there is no tread about the x9scm-f wich is wired since allot of people in here are rocking that board at home.

my setup is:
Case: SR316 (16 disk, 3u)
MB: Supermicro X9SCM-F
RAM: 8Gb 1333mhz ECC none-reg
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 (3.20Ghz 4 Cores HT,Turbo)
HDD: 4 x 500Gb SAS Raid10 (ESXi datastore)
Raid controller: Hp P410 256Mb, BATT with an HP SAS expander on.

Please add link and other useful stuff two the first post.
like, manual, older BIOS, drivers

 

[Pythagorus]

good idea nerdalertdk!

 

[nerdalertdk]

X9SCM-F

Product site: Link
Manual: Link
BIOS:

• (R 1.1a) x9scm1.928.zip*
• (R 1.0c) x9scm1.630.zip

* 1.1a don't work with a HP p4100 Raid controller

 

[Pythagorus]

See this thread