I am about to get an EMC VNX 5300 with 90 bays, I was wondering.

[lagerea]

Think I could get Unraid working on it?

[rpine66]

Hi did you ever get an answer to this? Could you get it to work?

 

Regards

Rui

 

[fotd]

Your power bill is going to be ridiculous lol.  No clue if you can install it, it's been probably 8+ years since I last had to direct connect to a vnx like that.  Everything was done via java app and never really looked at the underlying system that much.  I still have a couple locations with dormant vnx racks that have been powered off for a long time.  I'm trying to remember how those work, they have a main power DA with battery back up that each feeds 2 pcs that do the controlling if I remember right.  You obviously could only run one. There might be a secondary controller/cache system, I'm just having a hard time picturing it.  I believe the current OS runs on the first 5 (vault)drives of the first shelf.  There's usually a sticker from the factory don't touch and the system defaults to boot from there.  Whether you could boot from usb I can't remember.