Dell PowerEdge, Non-Dell disks, VMWare and monitoring

[OllyM]

Right, the planets are aligning and a perfect storm has hit my desk and I'm at a loss.

 

We're looking about getting a small tower server for a remote part of the campus running VMWare 6.x. It will probably be either a Dell T130 or T330 with an H730 raid card.

 

We have a stack of disks to re-use. All enterprise in nature but all non-dell certified. A mix of Seagate and WD.

 

Now, my only experience of using Dell PE kit with a dell controller and non-dell disks has resulted in OpenManage kicking out loads of alerts about non-certified drives. The noise was such that it would have swamped any real alerts, if it even generated them.

 

But this is VMware. Touch wood I've never had a disk alert from a VMWare box, and I've never used VMWare on anything other than Lenovo servers so far.

 

So, will using non-dell disks on a Dell T130 with a dell H730 and VMware result in a level of moaning similar to my kids, until I buy them some ice cream?

 

Olly