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and firstly are they on the HCL ?
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Check the <b>VMware Hardware Compatability Lists </b>HCL <a href="http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl" rel="ugc nofollow">here</a><br />
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The VMware Hardware Compatibility List is the detailed lists showing actual vendor devices that are either physically tested or are similar to the devices tested by VMware or VMware partners. Items on the list are tested with VMware products and are known to operate correctly.Devices which are not on the list may function, but will not be supported by VMware. <br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl</a><br />
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They look old based on the date of this blog post in 2009!<br />
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<a href="https://colovirt.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/san-storage-texas-memory-ramsan-500/" rel="ugc">https://colovirt.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/san-storage-texas-memory-ramsan-500/</a>
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Check the VMware Hardware Compatability Lists HCL here [http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl]

The VMware Hardware Compatibility List is the detailed lists showing actual vendor devices that are either physically tested or are similar to the devices tested by VMware or VMware partners. Items on the list are tested with VMware products and are known to operate correctly.Devices which are not on the list may function, but will not be supported by VMware.

http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl [http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl]

They look old based on the date of this blog post in 2009!

https://colovirt.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/san-storage-texas-memory-ramsan-500/ [https://colovirt.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/san-storage-texas-memory-ramsan-500/]

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Hello - just came across a bunch of these SAN's - RAMSAN 500 models, does anyone have any experience on what i would need to get this to work on a say a VMware setup with HP Proliant servers? Looks to be Fibre Channel.
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Hello - just came across a bunch of these SAN's - RAMSAN 500 models, does anyone have any experience on what i would need to get this to work on a say a VMware setup with HP Proliant servers? Looks to be Fibre Channel.

RAMSAN 500

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.