- #Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller install#
- #Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller drivers#
- #Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller driver#
- #Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller upgrade#
Though, in the ESXI 5.0 install, when they show up, all 4 of them are selectable individually at 300gb a piece rather than the one 600gb it should be considered. Out of curiosity in a Windows 7 install, the drives show up as one 600gb hard drive. I'd like to mention that I have 4 Fujitsu 300gb hard drives that are set up in a RAID10 at the moment. Anyway:Ġ000:001F.1 IDE Interface Mass Storage Controller: Intel Corporation 631圎SB/632圎SB IDE Controller Ġ000:05:03.0 RAID bus controller Mass storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902(B) U320 w/HostRAIDĠ000:05:03.1 SCSI bus controller Mass storage controller: Adaptec AIC-8982 U320 Well, at least of the things that seemed like they'd be relevant to the controller (There was a lot of side stuff about the Motherboard North and South bridges). I did the instructions you suggested within the installation console and here are the results.
#Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller install#
I've tried a myriad of things to get it to work on a clean install ISO of 5.5, including adding the. The controller will show up on ESXI 5.0 but not 5.5. I've been trying to add my old Adaptec Ultra320 series RAID controller for awhile now. If you already successfully installed ESXi 5.5 (on a USB drive or other disk controller) then just run steps #3 and #4 and check if your AHCI controller is detected then.
#Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller driver#
If your controller is NOT detected by the ahci driver then we cannot get it to work with ESXi 5.5 right now, sorry! I can provide a VIB file for that if you let me know the PCI ID.Ħb.
If your controller and the attached disks are now detected then you are lucky: We just need to add the PCI ID from step #4 to the mapping table of the ahci driver. Switch back to the installation screen with Alt-F2 and continue the installation wizardĦa. Run "lspci -v | more" to list PCI devices and IDs. Run "vmkload_mod ahci" to load the ahci driverĤ. When the first menu appears, press Alt-F1 to switch to a console window. Boot the computer from the installation CDĢ. To anyone who is trying to get his SATA AHCI controller to work with ESXi 5.5 - please try the following:ġ. If you want your hardware to be fully supported by VMware then stick with what is listed on the HCL! However, for home labs and test setups it is perfectly okay to use these drivers.
#Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller drivers#
In fact these drivers have never been supported, not even with ESXi 5.0 or 5.1, because the NICs that use them are not listed on the VMware HCL. In the comments of my last post the question came up whether these drivers are still supported with ESXi 5.5. If you want to learn more about ImageBuilder then please read my three-part deep dive series about it. # Export the custom profile into ISO fileĮxport-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile $MyProfile -ExportToISO -FilePath c:\temp\ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-standard-customized.iso # Add latest versions of missing driver packages to the custom profileĪdd-EsxSoftwarePackage -SoftwarePackage net-r8168 -ImageProfile $MyProfileĪdd-EsxSoftwarePackage -SoftwarePackage net-r8169 -ImageProfile $MyProfileĪdd-EsxSoftwarePackage -SoftwarePackage net-sky2 -ImageProfile $MyProfile $MyProfile = New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile $CloneIP -Vendor $CloneIP.Vendor -Name (($CloneIP.Name) + "-customized") -Description $CloneIP.Description $CloneIP = Get-EsxImageProfile ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-standard # Clone the ESXi 5.5 GA profile into a custom profile
The following PowerCLI script will create an ESXi 5.5 installation ISO that includes the missing drivers: Well, the awesome ImageBuilder snap-in for PowerCLI can help. But what if you want to install a new machine from scratch with ESXi 5.5 that needs one of these drivers?
#Vmware esxi 6.5 raid controller upgrade#
These drivers still work with ESXi 5.5, and if you upgrade an ESXi 5.1 host to 5.5 then you can just keep and continue using them. In my previous post I warned that VMware has removed some drivers for officially unsupported NICs (Realtek and Marvell) from ESXi 5.5 (compared to ESXi 5.1 and 5.0 that still included them).
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