A few weeks ago I attended the ‘What’s new in VMware vSphere 4‘ course given by Eric Sloof. Eric pointed us to a very nice and cheap shared storage solution from Iomega which he also uses in his home lab, the Iomega Storcenter ix-series.
I have been scouting the local hardware vendors for the Iomega ix2 but I could decide to go for the cheaper 1TB or the more expensive 2TB version. Today I was browsing through the VMware HCL when I remember the dilemma and was wondering if VMware even knew/supported the little Iomega storage box. And what do you know ………… the Iomega ix-series is on the VMware HCL!
The Iomega StorCenter ix2 and the ix4-100 are supported for all versions of VMware ESX 3.5 and the larger rack mountable ix4-200r is even supported on ESX 4.0 as NAS or iSCSI.
So I will be heading for the shops to get my own home shared storage solution.
The Iomega StorCenter ix is available in the following configurations:
| Type | Capacity | List price |
| Iomega StorCenter ix2 | 1 TB | € 299,- |
| Iomega StorCenter ix2 | 2 TB | € 419,- |
| Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-200r | 2 TB | € 1.844,- |
| Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-200r | 4 TB | € 2.141,- |