Wednesday, March 21, 2007

esx: ide vs sata

Installation on IDE or SATA Drives:

(source: vi3_esx_quickstart.pdf)




The installer displays a warning if you attempt to install ESX Server software on an IDE drive or a SATA drive in ATA emulation mode. It is possible to install and boot ESX Server software on an IDE drive. However, VMFS, the filesystem on which virtual machines are stored, is not supported on IDE or SATA. An ESX Server host must have SCSI storage, NAS, or a SAN on which to store virtual machines.

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