VMware VS4-ENT-PL-A Setup Guide - Page 14
Storage Systems, RAID controllers. Dell PERC Adaptec RAID or LSI MegaRAID, HP Smart Array RAID, or IBM - e channel
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vSphere Installation and Setup n ESXi requires a minimum of 4GB of physical RAM. Provide at least 8GB of RAM to take full advantage of ESXi features and run virtual machines in typical production environments. n To support 64-bit virtual machines, support for hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD RVI) must be enabled on x64 CPUs. n One or more Gigabit or 10Gb Ethernet controllers. For a list of supported network adapter models, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility. n Any combination of one or more of the following controllers: n Basic SCSI controllers. Adaptec Ultra-160 or Ultra-320, LSI Logic Fusion-MPT, or most NCR/Symbios SCSI. n RAID controllers. Dell PERC (Adaptec RAID or LSI MegaRAID), HP Smart Array RAID, or IBM (Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers. n SCSI disk or a local, non-network, RAID LUN with unpartitioned space for the virtual machines. n For Serial ATA (SATA), a disk connected through supported SAS controllers or supported on-board SATA controllers. SATA disks will be considered remote, not local. These disks will not be used as a scratch partition by default because they are seen as remote. NOTE You cannot connect a SATA CD-ROM device to a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.5 host. To use the SATA CD-ROM device, you must use IDE emulation mode. Storage Systems For a list of supported storage systems, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility. ESXi 5.5 supports installing on and booting from the following storage systems: n SATA disk drives. SATA disk drives connected behind supported SAS controllers or supported on- board SATA controllers. Supported SAS controllers include: n LSI1068E (LSISAS3442E) n LSI1068 (SAS 5) n IBM ServeRAID 8K SAS controller n Smart Array P400/256 controller n Dell PERC 5.0.1 controller Supported on-board SATA include: n Intel ICH9 n NVIDIA MCP55 n ServerWorks HT1000 NOTE ESXi does not support using local, internal SATA drives on the host server to create VMFS datastores that are shared across multiple ESXi hosts. n Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives. Supported for installing ESXi and for storing virtual machines on VMFS partitions. n Dedicated SAN disk on Fibre Channel or iSCSI n USB devices. Supported for installing ESXi. 14 VMware, Inc.