My IBM x3250 (4364-K1G) server just suffered some changes because there was a problem with VMWare ESXi 4.1 Update 1 and the RAID 1 setup. No matter what HDD’s i used i couldn’t install ESXi 4.1 Update 1.
There were write errors during ESXi 4.1 install process.
On it’s hardware side now it has 2×1 TB HDD’s (Seagate) in RAID 1 on the same LSI 1064E hardware RAID controller.
Also now it has only 4 GB of RAM.
Speaking of software, now it runs VMWare ESXi 5.0, with the old virtual machine (Ubuntu Server 64bit) that was running on ESXi 4.1 Update 1.
For the moment I am experiencing some performance issues in VMWare when i have high I/O activity : “device performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased” but i’ll detail this in another post that you can read here.
Sep 30 2011