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vSphere Installation and Setup
ESXi requires a minimum of 4GB of physical RAM. Provide at least 8GB of RAM to take full advantage
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of ESXi features and run virtual machines in typical production environments.
To support 64-bit virtual machines, support for hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD RVI) must
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be enabled on x64 CPUs.
One or more Gigabit or 10Gb Ethernet controllers. For a list of supported network adapter models, see
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the VMware Compatibility Guide at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility.
Any combination of one or more of the following controllers:
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Basic SCSI controllers. Adaptec Ultra-160 or Ultra-320, LSI Logic Fusion-MPT, or most
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NCR/Symbios SCSI.
RAID controllers. Dell PERC (Adaptec RAID or LSI MegaRAID), HP Smart Array RAID, or IBM
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(Adaptec) ServeRAID controllers.
SCSI disk or a local, non-network, RAID LUN with unpartitioned space for the virtual machines.
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For Serial ATA (SATA), a disk connected through supported SAS controllers or supported on-board
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SATA controllers. SATA disks will be considered remote, not local. These disks will not be used as a
scratch partition by default because they are seen as remote.
N You cannot connect a SATA CD-ROM device to a virtual machine on an ESXi 5.5 host. To use the
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SATA CD-ROM device, you must use IDE emulation mode.

Storage Systems

For a list of supported storage systems, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility. ESXi 5.5 supports installing on and booting from the
following storage systems:
SATA disk drives. SATA disk drives connected behind supported SAS controllers or supported on-
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board SATA controllers.
Supported SAS controllers include:
LSI1068E (LSISAS3442E)
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LSI1068 (SAS 5)
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IBM ServeRAID 8K SAS controller
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Smart Array P400/256 controller
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Dell PERC 5.0.1 controller
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Supported on-board SATA include:
Intel ICH9
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NVIDIA MCP55
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ServerWorks HT1000
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N ESXi does not support using local, internal SATA drives on the host server to create VMFS
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datastores that are shared across multiple ESXi hosts.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives. Supported for installing ESXi and for storing virtual machines
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on VMFS partitions.
Dedicated SAN disk on Fibre Channel or iSCSI
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USB devices. Supported for installing ESXi.
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