Reply To: HPE E208i-p Raid Card HI all, So it seems the only raid card supported by HP is the HPE E208i-p raid card. Whilst I’m loathed spent the £200 on the card, it is looking…

[kev2021]

Yes seems so. will have to see how it goes once I’ve got my other 2 drives in and its has VMs running :)

Also forgot to say earlier, the default setup in the Gen 10 plus is all 4 bays are conencted through one cable to a mini SAS port on the motherboard.  So all i’ve done is fit the E208i-p raid card, unplug the mini sas cable from the motherboard and connect it to port 1 on the E208i-p raid card, hence no additional cable is required and effectively the onboard S100i raid controller is not being used.

All drives are connected to the E208i-p raid card.

Just starting the process of copying the VMS off again onto my NAS as its the only place I have approx. 1TB free to store them, although this time, I don’t be deleting them off the nas, I’ll leave them on there.  Worst case, I might get a external drive and move them all onto that and then keep that offline somewhere, effectively a backup as of x date :)  I’ve only used 3 VMs since I moved them to the WD Golds and 1 of those is now redundant and no longer needed with esxi 7.0 from what I can tell so far as not using vcenter now, just gonna leave it as esxi now and skip vcenter :)  Plus vcenter can no longer be run on windows platform (I had a windows VM running vcenter before)

Kev

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