To work around this issue, configure multiple logical volumes of the maximum size 2tb bytes using the hardware raid controller firmware. And wasnt reading, and turned out it has intel rste technology. It will be in whitebox territory which means it will probably work but isnt. Raid card recommendation for esxi whitebox hi guys, i currently have an esxi whitebox server with an lsi 92408i raid controller running two 500gb disks in a raid 1. Vmware drivers for intel raid controllers 12gbpsbased.
Intel 82556dm2, requires the driver from update 4 or higher, working. Earlier this fall i built a nice little whitebox server, but ive been unable to use it much. The hardware raid controller is added as extra pci card. Motherboards and unsupported servers that work with esx 3. I am not able to provide you with a driver for nonahci controllers.
How to install 3rd party raid controller drivers in vmware. To install the adaptec raid controller driver while installing vmware esxi 5. Ive been scrounging around vmwares compatibility page and i cannot for the life of me find a sata. Install vmware esxi vsphere on a adaptec 3405 raid card. Intel x79 whitebox for vsphere 5 and hyperv 3 ivobeerens. So you can now add a vsata controller to your nested esxi 5 hosts and use it with sataxahci. Since areca supplies vmware drivers on their site, and this is a wellestablished namebrand controller, you may expect it to be easy to get it working. This table contains a list of systems, motherboards and sata controllers that have been tested and found to work with esx 3. Can that thing even take a raid card or is it just straight off the. Esxi 5 cciss driver clonezilla is at 20 hours and counting initially, there was some overlap in the boards which these two drivers support. The processor that should be in that device should support vtdvtx so it should work with esxi 5. After finding the guide on vfront, i got my networking adapter working and tried the sata controller driver. Although for some reason in the back of my mind, i thought it had an lsi hardware raid controller.