Recent content by dmelanson

Thanks for your posts. I found an Adaptec 51245 SAS RAID card that will fill our requirements and is VMWare ESXi compatible. Thanks for all your input. :)

I appreciate your quick reply. I was going to use the on-board RAID controller (Promise Integrated Software RAID). I checked VMWare's hardware compatibility guides for the hardware I chose, but would like to hear about real world experiences such as yours. Thanks again.

I'm looking to put together a server to run ESXi v4.1. I've selected the following hardware components and would appreciate any advice/input good/bad: :) Case: Athena Power CA-SWH02BH7 Mobo: TYAN S8230GM4NR-DL PSU: Athena Power AP-P4ATXK110FEP CPU: AMD Opteron 6134 Magny-Cours 2.3GHz...