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Hi, mighty &lt;all&gt;<br />
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Did you ever try to install a fresh new install of VMWare ESX 3.0 on a server with SATA drives?<br />
What I have is IBM x3400 with on-baord SATA RAID (does not get recognised by ESX Installer) and two 250 GB SATA drives. The task is to install ESX server on it. I know, I know that RTFM says ESX does not support it but...<br />
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I have bumped in to this thread <a href="http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=88" rel="ugc">http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=88</a><br />
where someone successfuly did it. The post says that LSI MegaRAID emulates SCSI (ESX uses the same megaraid driver for sata and SCSI) cheating the installer. <br />
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My question is - did you, &lt;all&gt;, ever tried this trick? Any help on that matter is greatly appreciated.
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Hi, mighty <all>

Did you ever try to install a fresh new install of VMWare ESX 3.0 on a server with SATA drives?
What I have is IBM x3400 with on-baord SATA RAID (does not get recognised by ESX Installer) and two 250 GB SATA drives. The task is to install ESX server on it. I know, I know that RTFM says ESX does not support it but...

I have bumped in to this thread http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=88
where someone successfuly did it. The post says that LSI MegaRAID emulates SCSI (ESX uses the same megaraid driver for sata and SCSI) cheating the installer. 

My question is - did you, <all>, ever tried this trick? Any help on that matter is greatly appreciated.

Installing VMWare ESX 3.0.1 on SATA RAID (LSI MegaRAID 300?)

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