
Installation Guide
70 VMware, Inc.
Installing and Configuring ESX Server on HP Blade
Servers
For a list of blade servers supported with ESX Server, see the ESX Server Systems
Compatibility Guide at www.vmware.com/products/server/esx_specs.html.
HP Blade Server Hardware Requirements
Blade server hardware requirements are as follows:
! Blade server enclosure
! BL20p, BL20p G2, BL20p G3, or BL40p blade servers
! GbE or GbE2 Interconnect Switch (GbE2 is required for Fibre Channel connectivity
with BL20p G2 blade servers)
! Dual Port Fibre Channel Mezzanine Card (for FC connectivity with BL20p G2
server blades)
Sufficient physical memory to prevent virtual machine swapping from being a
significant performance issue. Refer to the ESX Server 2.5 Administration Guide for more
information.
Configuring ESX Server on HP Proliant BL p-class Blade
Servers
There are two main choices for blade server storage:
! Local storage
! SAN devices with Fibre Channel adapters
Local SCSI
On HP blades, VMware recommends that the local SCSI drives are placed into a RAID1
(mirrored) configuration for redundancy.
N
OTE This is a requirement if you are planning to use Fibre Channel SAN storage media or
VMotion.
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