Hello,
All of my host servers have been stand alone servers or previously setup SANs.
We've just purchased a Powervault MD1200 DAS that we are going to be setting up this weekend.
We are going to install a perc adapter in a Power edge R710 and then connect it using SAS adapters.
The Power edge R710 is running esx 5.1.
Before embarking on this project I wanted to gather as much information as possible before taking our environment down.
Some questions that I have are:
1. Where do I setup and configure the RAID? (I was planning on installing the perc adapter, then attaching the DAS to the R710 and booting into the new perc controller. The R710 already has a perc controller for its existing storage so I'm not sure how that would work)
2. Once that has completed do I need to format the drives or do any lun configuration or will the new storage show up in vsphere?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Flynn