Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5 on>2TB disks

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

On 10/09/2010 03:11 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:56:31 -0400
> > From: Lee Marzke<lee@marzke.net>
> >
> > FYI,
> >
> > Many manufactures are now putting VMware ESXi ( embeded version ) on
> > a 1GB USB thumb drive (internal) [1] to an OEM purchased servers
> > instead of the traditional RAID1 2 disk array.   VMware recommends
> > not using internal disks for ESXi ! - boot either from USB or SAN.
>
> Yeah, I remember you talking about that, which is why I was looking 
> for such an option on the R710's we're using.  But I don't want ESXi, 
> I just need the "drive" for the base OS.  Such an option was not 
> jumping out at me on Dell's configurator, but as we all know Dell's 
> site is cumbersome to navigate at best, and you get very different 
> options depending on your location and entry-point, which I find 
> intensely annoying since that makes it very hard to compare Dell 
> apples to Dell apples.
>
> If I could get an inexpensive internal, "factory," USB/CF/whatever of 
> at least 1G (2G would be better), that would be about perfect.  Even 
> better if I could retro-fit a kit to existing servers.  I don't know 
> how many I already have in the field, but I'm guessing more than 100.

Don't know about being 'factory'  but check out:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=internal+usb+port
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=internal+ide+flash+drive

I'm sure HP/IBM and Dell sell servers with embedded VMware ESXi,  which 
is on internal flash storage of some kind, but you
likely can't order that from a consumer web page only through a VAR.

Since ESXi is free,  your only paying for the USB flash hardware anyway 
( or maybe for 'certification' costs of the hardware ).
but you would think you could get just the flash drive empty.

Lee





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