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HP GL380G4 , MSA20, and VMWare

Hi Folks
I am needing to set up an environment on a tight budget using recycled quip. My goal is to set up a VM ESX system with some level of fall over (manual intervention OK)
I have the following
3 x HP GL380G4 with dual Xeon's (memory configurable) with dual power supplies
1 x MSA20 with multiple HD's and dual power supplies

I am intending to connect the GL380's to the MSA20. How I have several configuration options

1. use all GL380's as VM Servers to the MSA20
2. Use one GL380 as a Storage Server and connect the other 2 x GL380's via ISCSI the to storage

Either way is preferable as if one of the GL380's fail I just need to move its HD to another machine and power up again.
Also as the GL380's have Ultra320 drive slots I can use some of these as high speed are'a

Many thanks for any comments/advice
Dave

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marcwolf

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Backups are no problem. I already use SATA docking stations and eSata cards to back up each night. Also very handy to take the previous nights backup offsite

Thanks for the comments, youd given me the nudge in the right direction
Dave

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Just remember the HP DL380 G4 may not be compoatible with ESX/ESXi 4.1. It does not support Intel-VT. Although it has a 64bit processor, if you do manage to get it working it will not support 64 bit Virtual Machines. (on any ESX/ESXi platform). 32bit VMs only.