
If a drive fails, you would lose the operating system array and partition, but your data would still be available on the remaining RAID 1 volume. The remaining 50% of each drive could be used to install a RAID 1, so data in that volume would be mirrored on both drives. This would be the perfect place to install your operating system, as it provides best performance. July 21, I recently had to install VMware ESXi on a server sporting an Areca RAID controller. For more details of installing SMIS, refer to the VMware ESXi 5. For a simple example, you could use two hard drives and utilize 50% of each drive’s capacity to create a RAID 0 stripe set. After this SMIS VIB file is installed in VMWare ESXi 5, Intel® RAID Web Console 2 at client end is able to remotely manage MegaSAS RAID array under VMWare ESXi 5. This lets you deploy multiple RAID arrays across the same set of hard drives. Intel’s RAID management software is called Matrix Storage Manager, and it supports several different RAID types, including the matrix mode. In this context, it is hard to understand why Intel decided to pair its modern G41 business-class chipset with the outdated ICH7 southbridge, because this old part does not support AHCI at all. ixgben Though a new native driver is introduced for Intel 10Gbps network controllers.

i40en This is a new 40Gbps native network driver for Intel 40Gbps Network Controllers replacing i40e vmklinux driver in 6.0.x branch. According to 'Native Driver support in Dell Customized VMware ESXi 6.5'.


However, only the RAID and Digital Office (DO) models actually support AHCI and RAID 5-the more mainstream models do not. ESXi 6.5 information about NIC as follows. Intel was one of the first to support SATA/300 with NCQ through an AHCI controller back on its ICH8 southbridge.
