CentOS - Mar 2011 - VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) and mdraid

Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS 
mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.

- Jussi

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On 03/29/2011 10:47 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
> mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
>
> - Jussi
>
Why?? What do you want to do?? Do you need to install a CentOS virtual 
guest with a mdraid-1?? IMHO, It make no sense ...

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Jussi Hirvi <greenspot at greenspot.fi>
wrote:
> Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
> mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
ESXi itself is the OS. No need Centos anymore to install it.
(if I'm getting what you mean correctly ^^)

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:47 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization
No, ESXi is an OS.
>  and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare
before.
VMware supports NFS for VM storage.  So export your MD-RAID volume to
the ESX server.

> Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS
> mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before.
Not if you want to run ESXi on bare metal; ESXi is an OS in it's own
right. VMware Player/Server/Workstation OTOH will run on top of mdadm
as it needs a host OS and doesn't care what it is given as a block
device.




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