Discussion in 'RAID Controllers and Host Bus Adapters' started by Zack Hehmann, Jul 16, 2016.

This server supports hardware RAID. Installing a Software RAID Key Module for Embedded RAID 5 Support. To install and use ESXi 5.5, your hardware and system resources must meet. See Installing and Booting ESXi with Software FCoE. I'm considering looking for a good inexpensive hardware RAID option for his ESXi. Hardware or Software Raid for. ESXi does not support software RAID, but only 'real' hardware RAID. With hardware RAID you can configure different logical volumes on different disk types, create VMFS datastores on them, and then decide on a per VM basis where to store the virtual disks. You can even have multiple virtual disks per VM and store each one on a different datastore.