Hello Mark,

On 27 Aug 14 13:23, Mark Hofmann wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MH> One way to save money and keep the price of the server down is to just
 MH> get one or two drives (mirrored or something) just to boot VMware
 MH> ESXi.

 MH> Once the system is up and running, you can create a virtual iSCSI
 MH> adapter on the ESXi server and attach remote LUNs from another system
 MH> running Windows Server and Microsoft iSCSI Software Target.

 MH> This allows you to use less expensive and larger SATA drives for your
 MH> VMs - all mapped via iSCSI.  That is how I have things setup.  I
 MH> created (2) 2TB LUNs that all my VMs use for storage via iSCSI.
 MH> Nothing is saved on the local drives on the DL380 G5, except for my
 MH> DVR recordings that one of my VMs handles.

Half of that went way over my head. But to each their own! :)

Regards,
Nick

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