Hello everyone!
I'm very fresh in ESXi. I've been trying to solve my problem for a while, no solution found, so I've decided to post it here:
my setup:
1. motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 890GX USB3.0 HD4290
2. processor: AMD PHENOM X6 1100T 3,3GHz x6 BLACK EDITION
3. hard drives: 4x Dysk Western Digital CAVIAR 2TB SATA II 64MB CACHE (WD20EARS)
4. RAID 1+0 I found the following specification in the Raid menu:
Controller IRQ: 7
AHCI HBA MMIO Base Address: FE4FFCOO
I would like to have my ESXi Server (e.g. 5.0) installed in RAID 10,
The problem is: ESXi does not see the RAID array (even if I create RAID disc < 2TB, which shouldn't be a problem in case of ESXi 5.0 anyway)...
During the installation process ESXi sees only 4 discs 2TB (no RAID array), so I've installed it on the first one and in a VSphere I can see of course only one disc instead of the whole 4GB array...
Why I claim is a controller problem and not ESXi like in the following article (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/326902)?
When I was trying to install a Windows Server 8 it couldn't see the RAID neither, but I have downloaded a Raid controller driver for Windows (I think it was this one: AMD AHCI Driver V3.2.1540.35 for Windows 32/64bit XP) from the Asus site and it worked (at least for windows)...
I was very desperate and I've decided to stay with Windows and run ESXi in a VirtualBox, but nested virtualization is a bit lame...
Any suggestions?
Pleeeeeeeeease help!!!
cheers,
M.