Re: VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/29/11 5:12 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvi<greenspot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
>>>>   Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
>>>>   mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
>
> On 29.3.2011 11.58, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>> ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it.
>> (if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)
>
> I know I don't need CentOS to install ESXi. I was thinking of having
> everything (or at least the guests) on mdraid level1. Maybe hardware
> raid would be the only way to get raid.

Hardware raid is the easy way to go.  But, you should be able to add virtual 
disks to a guest from ESXi from 2 different physical drives, then let the guest 
run software raid over them.  The guest doesn't know the disks are virtual and 
will do about anything it could do on its own physical machine.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


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