HP Proliant DL380 G6 - Hard Drive Configuration
Here is what we currently have:
2 Hard Drives raided 0
VM's are currently installed on here, including a domain server.
Here is what we are adding:
4 new additional Hard Drives
Is it possible to add these 4 additional hard drives without creating logical raided drives with them? We just want to have 4 separate new drives for our esxi datastore.
2 Hard Drives raided 0
VM's are currently installed on here, including a domain server.
Here is what we are adding:
4 new additional Hard Drives
Is it possible to add these 4 additional hard drives without creating logical raided drives with them? We just want to have 4 separate new drives for our esxi datastore.
everard
Yes, you can. Just connect them and reboot the server.
ASKER
Connected them and they do not show up to add inside of vmware vsphere. They did show up when we went inside the hp raid configuration so we know they are at least recognizable by server.
Have you tried rescanning for datastores on the ESXi host?
ASKER
Yes I tried a Rescan inside vsphere storage adapters. Still doesn't display new drives.
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If we delete the existing raid is it possible to to set all hard drives up without using the raid configuration? Start from scratch.
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The only reason we considered not using a raid is because when we selected raid 0 on a 500 GB drive it was taking it down to 465 GB. Is this normal?
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