I am jumping into the VMWare world and have noticed that there is a ton of support for the cheaper LSI SAS SATA RAID cards in the 6.x series of ESX.
I'm in the process of building a standalone ESXi host under $1000 with RAID 1 and about 6TB of storage. Performance is not a major concern. Budget, power, footprint and noise are.
The HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 plus seems to be a good starting point, and then I was going to go with the cheap LSI SAS-SATA RAID cards out there but none are on the 7.x ESXi hardware compatibility list. The HPE H240n is on the list, however and is affordable.
Are there any sub $200 (used is fine) SAS SATA cards to recommend that might not be on the VMware compat list? Or any on the list in particular to look at, that would work in the microserver gen10?
I'm in the process of building a standalone ESXi host under $1000 with RAID 1 and about 6TB of storage. Performance is not a major concern. Budget, power, footprint and noise are.
The HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 plus seems to be a good starting point, and then I was going to go with the cheap LSI SAS-SATA RAID cards out there but none are on the 7.x ESXi hardware compatibility list. The HPE H240n is on the list, however and is affordable.
Are there any sub $200 (used is fine) SAS SATA cards to recommend that might not be on the VMware compat list? Or any on the list in particular to look at, that would work in the microserver gen10?