Advice for RAID card supported by ESXi7

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sergi0

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Hi,
I am looking for a RAID card with ESXi7 support. It just need to be able to host 2 SSD (SATA), so the cheaper is the better.
What is the best card to get ?
Thanks,
Serge
 

sergi0

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To be precise, I looked at VMware compatibility guide, but there are too many card. I start looking at some online, but I thought that will be quicker to ask here for advice on something cheap that works good enough to host 2 SATA SSD in RAID1.
 

StevenDTX

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Lenovo 530-8i is about as cheap as you are going to find that is natively supported. I have bought them for about $120.
 

sergi0

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I did some research and notice this card did not have what my ARC 1882 has : a network port to send SMTP message for logging. This feature is quite usefull as I never look at the card status.

Is there a way for esxi to get the information that a RAID array has problem ? If not, besides ARECA, are there other brand with a network port that can send notification ?

Cheers,
Serge