Re: New pc build

Good Evening, ESXI won't support either raid solution as software raid isn't supported. ESXI has a very narrow list of supported hardware so I typically never recommend it for a home lab. Unless you really need ESXI I would suggest looking at running KVM on either Fedora or Centos. Another option is to look at Citrix Xenserver and perhaps leverage MDADM but I am not sure that is a supported solution either.

One other solution if you happen to have either a spare machine or a NAS floating around is to use ISCSI but again that is additional expense.

As for the UEFI comment, all of my ESXI and Xenservers in production are using ESXI as it leverages a lot of functionality and speeds up the reboot process.

Thanks

Mike Granito

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 02:36:52PM -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I'm in the middle of building a new pc and have some questions and
> thought this would be the perfect venue. I'm building an ESXi server
> and I want to boot from a flash drive and I have two 1 TB drives I
> want to put in a RAID 1 for redundancy. The motherboard is an ASRock
> Z97 Extreme 6. This is the first board I've ever had that used UEFI
> instead of the old BIOS that I'm used too. I'm totally lost. It seems
> there are two ways to create the RAID; either by doing it within the
> UEFI firmware or through the Intel RAID configuration. I'm not sure
> which one I should use.

The real question is which one ESXi supports. (Most likely it will be
the Intel RAID configuration.)

> I've read that if you create it from UEFI then you can't boot from
> "legacy media" like cd/DVDs or flash drives formatted as MBR. Can
> someone clear this up for me? I'm way lost here. I need a dummies
> explanation.

In most cases, UEFI isn't worth the trouble. If you can just disable it
on the motherboard and boot from good, old-fashioned BIOS, you probably
should.

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