Subject: Proliant DL360 G3 to Compaq Storageworks EK 1502 Series

[Bobby Castulo]

Planning to install ESX 3.5 U4 on the HP Proliant DL360 G3, trying to figure out which single channel PCI X HP storage controller card is compatible with ESX 3.5 U4 to connect to the Compaq storageworks EK 1502 Series, so I can see the storage from the server and use it as datastore for the vmdk's

The Storage has 14 x 73 GB drives

Thanks in advance

[TTr]

The only HP supported (hardware) SCSI adapter is the SC11Xe.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13235_na/13235_na.html

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12566_na/12566_na.html

It is an Ultra3 adapter and should work fine with the disk enclosure that you have. Check if ESX supports it as well with drivers.

I would expect that any Ultra3 SCSI adapter would work as well if ESX has drivers for it.

[Bobby Castulo]

Isnt this a pci express card?. Wont I need a pci x card instead.

I really appreciate the reply. Now at least I have a direction to follow from an expert's point of view.

[Bobby Castulo]

You were looking at a DL360 G6, I have a G3. That is probably why I disagreed with the type of card pci-express against pci-x

[TTr · Accepted solution]

As I an see it you will not be able to find an officially supported adapter that meets all the requirements for the environemnt that you have. So you would need an adapter that satisfies all of the below, fits the DL360G3, (I think that is a PCI-X/64bit/100MHz), that has drivers for ESX (or ESX drivers will work with it) and also that is Ultra320/LVD to connect to the external storage enclosure.
One note, you have 14 drives and that's a lot of i/o to pump through a single SCSI channel, If your external enclosure has 2 SCSI interfaces, you should look at getting two adapters.

All of the newer HP Parallel SCSI adapters are 133MHz, http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/arraycontrollers/?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

I can't get any info on the discontinued adapters that might work with your server. I would look at third party products that would have the above specs for your server.

[Bobby Castulo]

Thank you so much, that is the answer I was looking for.

Very Much Appreciated

[TTr]

Some DL360 info I was able to find
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00353074&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

The secon link for the processor board mentions the riser specs (64bit/100MHz/PCI-X)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00353074&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN