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Notes about supported configurations:
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A fibre channel switch is required for storage area network (SAN)
connectivity. Direct-attached fibre channel is not supported in this release.
•
iSCSI storage is supported with software iSCSI initiator provided with
VMware ESX Server or the iSCSI initiators in the guest operating systems.
•
Dell PowerVault MD1000 is supported to provide external storage to a
single ESX host or to a maximum of two hosts in a split configuration.
Features that require shared storage among ESX hosts, such as VMotion,
HA, and DRS, are not supported with PowerVault MD1000. A maximum
of two PERC 5/E or PERC 6/E are supported in a single PowerEdge
system. Dell PowerVault 22XS storage enclosures are not supported.
•
MD3000 and MD3000i is not supported with this release.
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TCP Offload Engine (TOE) is not supported in this release.
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PowerVault NX1950 is supported only as an iSCSI storage device. It is not
supported as a NAS storage device.
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Dell Network Attached Storage (NAS) using Windows Storage Server on
PowerEdge 2950 and PowerEdge 2900 are not supported.
•
AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology in quad core AMD
Opteron processors is not used by VMware ESX Server in this release.
•
New instructions for virtualization technology enhancements on Intel
Xeon 54xx series are not used by VMware ESX Server in this release.
•
SATA Optical Drive (CD/DVD) on Dell PowerEdge PE2900-III server is
not supported in this release.
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Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is not supported in this release.
•
Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are not supported.
NOTE:
For more information on the NIC and Fibre Channel HBA supported with
ESX Server 3.0.
x
, see the
I/O Compatibility Guide for ESX Server
at
www.vmware.com/support/pubs
.
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