Hello!
I have configured some old hardware for re-use. It's old but still rock solid and nice for storage virtualization. (2x Openfiler)
The problem is that there is no access to pci passthrough so I have to raw map the device.
VMFS limits me to 2TB Files so I have to configure multiple arrays
Config:
Tyan K8S Pro Thunder
2x AMD Opteron 242
2GB ECC DDR-400
(I know the driver is not supported for this card but the driver base is the same (R3XXX/R4XXX) and it's working for 1 array)
1x Highpoint Rocketraid 3220 PCI-X
-- 6x 2TB Disks [Selected]
-- #1 RAID 1/0 1500G
-- #2 RAID 1/0 1500G
-- #3 RAID 1/0 1500G
-- #4 RAID 1/0 1500G
1x SIL3114 (VMware system disk)
-- 1x 1TB Disk [VMware ESXi 4.1]
The problem is that VMware only sees 1 Array
I have tried to manually create path files but this is getting to confusing for me as there is a generic scsi device file and 1 physical disk file copying symlinks for the paths isn't really working. So I think I am doing something wrong :-)
See Attached JPEGS for more information.
Hope someone is able to help! Really want to use VMware.
Last resort is XenServer for linux kernel based pci passthrough but I don't like XenServer :-).
Thanks in advance.
Menno