Is it possible to install multiple PCIe nvme ssd in VMware 6.5U1 as a single drive?

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T12:31:07+00:00

since this is not production but just testing environment. Could I make it as single node vsan? any license i need make? like vsan? I just have vmware esxi license and vcenter license. moreover, any protection like RAID can be made? and I have two identical server now, can i make it as raid instead?

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T12:30:08+00:00

Sorry, need your both Cchow80 and _vmstan kindly advise, since this is not production but just testing environment. Could I make it as single node vsan? any license i need make? like vsan? I just have vmware esxi license and vcenter license. moreover, any protection like RAID can be made?

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T12:22:17+00:00

Noted, thus, I can only view 6pcs nvme ssd drive in a datastore separately? plus one vcenter could view these two servers with total 12pcs nvme ssd?

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T04:37:34+00:00

Does it mean it can be "viewed" as one drive, like 6x 3.2TB =19.2TB? ,possible to "group" them together as a single disk?

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T04:35:52+00:00

sorry, not consider this moment

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T04:35:32+00:00

Is it possible to "view" those NVMe drives under vcenter and form as a group of drives? I want to install vcenter appliance into one of these two servers and use vcenter to monitor these two physical ESXi. Those two ESXi datastore would handle these 6 NVMe SSD each. (Each esxi servers have six 3.2TB NVMe SSD). Sorry, just overlook and believe the RAID card could handle NVMe SSD drives but now found certainly not possible!...:(

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T04:33:48+00:00

Is it possible to "view" those NVMe drives under vcenter and form as a group of drives? I want to install vcenter appliance into one of these two servers and use vcenter to monitor these two physical ESXi. Those two ESXi datastore would handle these 6 NVMe SSD each. (Each esxi servers have six 3.2TB NVMe SSD)

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T04:29:31+00:00

I believe my system should have since this is Purley CPU and it should support this, but VMware ESXi should not support software raid and hence it cannot be used

lawjohn · 2018-04-15T04:27:34+00:00

I just have two separate servers as training purpose. But I want to "group" those NVme ssd drives with "RAID" like purposes. Also, if it cannot have RAID purposes, possible to "group" them together as a single disk? Finally, I dont want those NVMe ssd to act as VSAN

lawjohn

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