Good RAID card compatible with ESXi and Solaris?
After a lot of research, I found a RAID card that works with VMWare ESX/ESXi 4, has CIM support (so ESXi can read the RAID status), has a BBU (so write-cache is safe to use), and also works with Solaris x86!! The 8704EM2 from LSI:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118099
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Hello,
I stumbled upon your post while checking RAID cards compatible with ESXi. I didn’t know the guest OS (Solaris, same in my case) was a parameter to take into account. Shouldn’t hardware be abstracted as long as guest OS are concerned? Or do you have a dual boot with Solaris as a host OS too?
Thanks in advance,
Tangi
You are correct! Sorry if the post was unclear. The RAID card listed above works with ESXi and Solaris as a bare-metal host os. The Virtual Guest OS does not care about the actual hardware in the system.