I have a couple of Fujitsu Siemens Econel 100's that have failed. They're good
solid boxes but I think the problem is on the motherboard.
So I'm looking to replace the motherboard with something that will play nicely
with VMWare vSphere, but as this is just a "play thing" I can't afford the
luxury of looking at the hardware that VMWare support.
What I think I need is (a) a CPU which supports virtualisation (don't they all
these days?), (b) onboard network and graphics that vSphere will support, (c)
onboard RAID that vSphere will recognise (I have an IDE boot drive and 4x SATA
HDD for my virtual machines; RAID 10 would suffice as it's better performance
than RAID5).
I have a working Econel 100 that I've got up and running which is working OK
but fails on (a) (it's an old 3GHz Pentium D), and I'm guessing fails on (c)
as although I have a RAID10 array set up I can't see it in vSphere, just the
four individual drives. This is the first time I've looked at vSphere so (c)
could be human error.
I'm keen to get vSphere up and running as I already have several virtual Linux
boxes running but using an Ubuntu/VirualBox host which is an overhead I could
do without, and vSphere seems more "grown up" (albeit without a native linux
admin client, grrr!)
Mark
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