I took down my network today to hook up and test my PowerVault 220s. The correct cable to hook everything up finally came, so I brought down ESX to connect it up and make sure everythin was running fine.

This also gave me a chance to configure iLO on the ESX box and look at beefing up some of it's hardware =)

I'll be bringing the host down again sometime in the near future (or atleast after I get 9 more drive caddies and rails for the PowerVault...). This will be to pull everything off both my OpenFiler boxes and add it to the local ESX host. I've had my fun with iSCSI, but now with this disk array and only 1 ESX host I decided to go back to local storage.

Back when I had both PowerEdge 2550's running ESX, I was more than happy to utilize OpenFiler and it's iSCSI goodness... Those days are long gone with the DL740.

Don't get me wrong, my primary fileserver (and my new monster fileserver) will still run OpenFiler ;)