Hello,
Just bought a MicroServer G1610T Gen 8.
I am hoping to install 4 4Tb SATA disk (RAID 1+0) plus an SSD instead of the Optical Disk on the extra SATA channel.
I am hoping to install VMWare (or maybe XenServer) on the SSD and to boot from the SSD. All guest OS's would reside on the SSD leaving the RAID array purely for storage.
It seems that Intelligient Provisioning will not let be deploy an OS onto the SSD (if it is on the extra SSD channel).
I booted the VMWare installer (the customised HP one - actually 6.0 and not 5.5U2) from an external USB key and was able to install onto the SSD drive. However I can not boot from the SSD. It seems the server is not seeing the drive as bootable!
Now worst case I will give up and use the SSD in may laptop :) however I dont see why it is not possible to boot from a hard drive on the extra SATA channel.
Regards
PS. Why did HP use such an unusuall power connector for the Optical Drive. It seems to be an 3.5" floppy drive power connector (it would certainly fit an floppy drive that I found in my box of "spare kit" :) ) why is it not a standard molex or SATA power connector!!!!!