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Motherboards and unsupported servers that work with ESX 3.5 and / or ESXi 3.5 Installable
Lasted updated - 2008.11.15

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This table contains a list of systems, motherboards and SATA controllers that have been tested and found to work with ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Installable. Please check out the source column for a system you are considering using as some systems will include special steps to enable ESX / ESXi to run on that system or have other issues to overcome. None of these systems are supported by VMWare for running ESX. For a list of those systems please see this PDF. In same cases for ESXi, the system may be booting from a USB flash drive and be using no local storage.

If you have tested a system that is not listed here, please contact me on the VMware Technology Network community: VMTN Profile or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.

NOTE: this list includes a number of SATA controllers that provide RAID functionily via a software component in the drivers supplied with the controller. Examples would be the Intel ICH series, Adaptec HostRAID cards and the nVidia MCP series. ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 do not support that software RAID functionality thus you will only be able to access the individual drives connected to controllers such as these.