Hello,

I would like to run open-e iSCSI enterprise on two HP Proliant DL380R04 machines - one machine as active, second one as passive, with replication of 900GB of data. Data will be virtual machines accessed from 2 other Proliant servers running VMware Server.

Specs for this machine are:

Single Xeon 3.0Ghz
SAS disk subsystem with smartarray controller (linux CCISS)
1GB RAM

A few questions I can't seem to answer:

1) Is this machine supported as a whole?
2) Is the hardware RAID supported? (I believe it is in the HW list)
3) Can I monitor RAID status (good, degraded) in Open-E?
4) Is the CPU sufficient for this use?
5) Any advantage in adding RAM?
6) *important* is the replication ready??

Thanks for the feedback!