Z68 Sandybridge Motherboard VT-d Test Matrix: Which Mobo/CPU combo works with VMware ESXi 4.1U1 VMDirectPath feature?īy December, I had fully baked my storage strategy, and published it at: Why? Only that model supported RAID5 read+write caching: I soon decided to return my 9260-8i, going instead with the RAID5 CacheCade Pro 2.0 capable 9265-8i. goodraidcontrollerswithssdcachingandesxsupport Good RAID Controllers with SSD caching and ESX support I've had the LSI 9265-8i RAID controller since the summer of 2011, with the promise of having excellent read and write speeds for my RAID5 array, explained here: Stay with me here to the end of this saga, where you'll see some initial benchmark tests, and rather impressive results! Without CCPro2 for SSD caching of my 5.6TB RAID5 array, I could obtain similar speeds at a much lower price than my LSI 9265-8i. But victory at last achieved last night, with initial tests indicating a favorable outcome. This vZilla project, which inspired me to start this web site on Jin the first place, was in jeopardy of having a failed storage strategy. So this success with CacheCade Pro 2.0 is that much sweeter, even if it took about a year and a half to fully bake. I'm the guy that likes to abuse my RAID arrays, described here and here.
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