Hello all,
I am slightly annoyed right now after reading all about MT’s commitment to implement SCSI (NON EXISTANT) on RouterOS. I have been planing to move things over to our VMware ESX servers for quite a while, but was unaware of the lack of SCSI support.
Thanks,
-Josh
P.S. Any word from Mikrotik whether this support is being considered?
P.P.S
For now I am rebuilding the fancy server with Ubuntu and VMware Server… the NON preferred choice
You should really be asking vmware why they still (after numerous requests) still don’t allow IDE support on ESX.
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/62873
They support it fine on Vmware server 1 and 2, so why no support for systems that require it in ESX :-/ shrugs
esxi 4.0 now supports virtual IDE drives
Thanks for the info Normis, very much appreciated
This workaround turned out ot be less than simple for me.
Vmware ESXi 4 only runs on 64bit hardware. My server is of course only 32 bit hardware, and so I am still stuck with running Vyatta as my Virtualised router platform with Vmware ESXi 3.5
Lets see if I can persuade those with the purse strings to buy a new server…
Forget it. I have been running it in VM for years. A RouterBoard performs much faster and saves power. Running in RouterOS in VM will waste A LOT of the server’s CPU resources + you have to manage the virutal eth interfaces in a special way…