Install ESXi 5.0 on Raid 5 configuration

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• Install ESXi cannot see the RAID array

  I tried to install ESXi 5.1 on a HP Proliant Dl160 G6, with 4 hard drives of 2 TB in RAID 1 + 0 array, using a HP b110i controller. When it comes time to select the installation media ESXi to, the installer sees the 4 physical disks, rather than the logical disk that I created with the controller.

  The b110i is a RAID controller-based software that does not support the ESXi.  As you have noticed it will not recognize the individual disks and it work perfectly with them as individual disks.  But if you are looking for a RAID array, you need to add another RAID controller.

• Install ESXi 4.1 see physical disks rather than raid 1

  Data sheet:

  -CPU Intel X 3450

  -Intel S3420GPLC motherboard

  -2 X Seagate ST3750528AS 750 GB (Raid 1)

  I try to install esxi 4.1 on above using the embedded raid controller.

  According to this post (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1393463#1393463) I set the Commission to use "Intel matrix Raid" as the type of controller.  Who is the one who supports Raid 5 so that I would use anyway.

  The problem is when I choose the disc to install VMware shows two physical drives rather than for the raid set.  Installation at one of these BRAKES the raid (not surprising), who then proceeds to try to rebuild his car, but never quite get there.

  Gparted and Win 2008 as bios only list the raid set.

  The Board is listed in the list of compatibility with the following notes:

  1. State power supply not supplied.

  2. total count and status not provided all of the thermal system and temperature sensors.

  3. when the State of system fan not intended to indicate that a fan has been removed.

  4 Intel 82578 DM Gigabit Network Connection not supported.

  Anyone has any advice on what I could try?

  As a general rule, the RAID controllers on board are NOT material (with BBWC) RAID controllers... Therefore, you will not see a picture that you build on them as a single volume, but as their readers (lone) component... ESX/ESXi requires RAID controllers for drives configured in a table in order to present in a table...

  What HCL did the jury on (do not see on the VMware HCL)?

  In addition, given that the NETWORK card is not supported, you need to install a NETWORK card that is supported before you will be able to fully install ESX/ESXi on the system...

  If you really need to have readers in a table (never a bad idea to use RAID 1 or 10), then you will need get a RAID controller that is on the VMware HCL as supported (for installing ESX/ESXi on) and then move on... I'd go with a controller using the LSI MegaRAID chipset (or this LSI controller directly). As you connect SATA drives to the system, you will want to get the RAID controller that is listed as SATA/SAS-RAID, so that it will work properly/entirely with the SATA (and SAS) readers... Newegg has the LSI MegaRAID cards manage up to four drives internally (and are on the VMware HCL) for not much money (~ $300 each)...

  As many people on these boards will tell you, material compatibility is CRITICAL for ESX/ESXi... VMware publishes and updates constantly, their HCL for a reason... If it's on, then it is supported in the configuration also listed... If something is not listed for a certain version/version, then you can pretty much bet that it is not supported and will not work. If you want a stable host and environment, you will have to pay special attention to the HCL in deciding the selection of material...

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• Install ESXi 4.0 on Fujitsu GROUND TX200 S4 with RAID 1

  Hello

  is it possible to install ESXi 4.0 U1 on a Fujitsu GROUND TX200 S4 server with RAID 1 of this machine system?

  The ESXi can manage the RAID?

  On the compatibility page of vmware search the Fujitsu GROUND TX200 S4 is in the list, but - what it means, ESXi has the RAID drivers too?

  I'm new to ESXi and want to be sure before you install it to my client.

  Thank you, soon, has

  franc

  To see official HCL:

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility

  To see white box configurations:

  http://www.VM-help.com

  http://ultimatewhitebox.com

  André

• Difficulty installing ESXi with RAID and Ethernet

  I have a Promise FastTrak TX2300 RAID controller PCI card and a PCI Netgear 1 GB ethernet card. The RAID controller is configured with RAID 1 and has two identical disks connected. A logical drive is defined.

  When I run the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 installer displays the two RAID drives as if there was no RAID. If I select one of the disks and continue with the installation, the installation program uses only this player and the second drive is intact.

  Once installation is complete, the system will start and allow me to configure the ESX Server.

  The configuration of the server sees any Netgear card.

  How do we install ESXi to recognize the logical RAID drive both the Netgear ethernet adapter? The only Setup installation option that I could see was to press TAB before the loading of the installer. But that just showed two lines of giberish and I press any takes over the responsibility of the installer.

  Kevin

  (1) the promise is a "soft" raid card, which means linux and windows, that the pilot made the raid, ESX, so on, it will work, but each drive is independent.  There is no choice in addition to using a fully supported RAID card.

  (2) netgear probably isn't on the HCL, and therefore will not work.  Buy a card in the HCL...

  -Matt

• If anyone has installed ESXi on an old post XW8400 and make use of the SAS RAID?

  So I dug up an old HP XW8400 Workstation, but it is missing some parts and I thought I'd see if anyone has this thing running with the SAS RAID, because most of the forums of discussion and problems seem to revolve around the SATA RAID. So is this still possible? I do not want to invest money and then have NOTHING to do...

  Well, you're lucky, because I had this question a long time ago, but I never thought that someone else would have taken the trouble but YES - it is supported - even if everybody out there seems to focus on the SATA RAID I took not stable worth, since I use SAS disks in my workstation , because they are MUCH faster and can support a flow MORE. I have ESXi 1483097 5.1 Build running with 2 450 GB SAS drives in a RAID 0 configuration, and the system just hums...

  It is an old machine, but I was surprised that he was able to follow with the latest versions of ESXi, that's why I don't bother throwing, so if someone is there looking into the purchase of a good workstation MARKET that supports ESXi 5.1 with dual Quad Core Xeon, 32 GB of RAM, and SAS RAID so you won't go wrong with this one. You will encounter a small problem though, but I guess I'll wait for others to try to run this configuration that I share this juicy tidbit, although it is relatively easy to overcome and all depends on how you run ESXi...

  I know if you tried and GB SAS...

• Install ESXi 5.5 restarts the Adaptec RAiD card

  Hello

  I have a job im trying to install ESXi 5.5 on. I got it running on the machine perfectly well until I added a map of Adaptec Raid 3805. Now when I try to install ESXi it restarts everything when trying to load the AACRAID driver. It isn't hanging or show all errors. It just restarts immediately.

  VMware claim the Adaptec 3805 is compatible with ESXi 5.5

  Anyone got any ideas on why this is happening?

  Managed to solve this problem.

  I had to disable virtualization technology Intel® for Directed i/o in bios and now the installation program works perfectly

• UCS C220 M3 custom problem after installing ESXi 5.1.0 Cisco

  Hello world

  I m using a Cisco UCS C220 M3 when I tried to install ESXi 5.1.0 custom Cisco after complete the entire process and restart the server. The ESXi has not started it appeared as if there is no operating system.

  In addition, before installing ESXi I configured a HDD in RAID 0, initialized the RAMDisk and chosen as a pilot.

  Hoping someone could help me.

  Llianovich,

  Unfortunately, the on-board controller is not supported with ESXi.  I saw other people using this controller for VMware and makes the work but the behavior is very random and it could work or fail at any time. It is recommended to use one of the controllers of basic PCI or Mezzanine by the ESXi (see c220 m3 datasheet below)

  STEP4SELECT CONFIGURATION of RAID (page 21)

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/C220M3_SFF_SpecSheet.PDF

  Embedded MegaRAID controller

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/unified_computing/UCS/c/HW/C220/install/RAID.html#wp1028426

  

• C200 M2 LFF does not see the disks in the start menu after installing ESXi

  So in front of me, I have a brand new C200 M2 LFF with a single E5606 processor, 20 GB of RAM and a controller LSI Megaraid 9260 - 4i and 4 drives of 1 TB SAS. I put the disks in a RAID 5 array, I created a 10 GB virtual disk and properly installed ESXi on it twice, with a second virtual disk to be used as a data store.

  However, I can't get the thing to boot. It isn't even an option. The only storage in the boot menu option corresponds to the DVD player. If I look at the mass storage controller configuration, in fact, 0 and 4 SATA ports are "not installed" and port 5 has the DVD player.

  I tried fiddling with the settings of the BIOS without a bit of luck. Currently, the integrated controller is enabled and the SATA mode is set on improved (which seems to be the default, and what is recommended with Megaraid cards). It is a bundle (UCSC-DBUN-C200-102 by delivery, which seems to be a number of separate reference only), so I didn't have to assemble whatever it is and I guess that all the cables are connected at the factory. I opened the server, and I can say that all the cables look connected.

  Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I have to open a case with the TAC, that's good, but seeing as I can't actually install the operating system there must be something stupid miss me.

  Disable the onboard Controller. This is software raid ICH10R.

  Reset. Then in the fixed CIMC/BIOS boot order and pint at the LSI.

  For the most recent ESXi 5.0, go to VMWare and search for ' ESXi 5.0 cumulative 2.

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• How to install ESXi 5.1 Server DELL with ESXi 5.5 installed on IDSDM?

  Hello

  We get a new DELL server that gets 5.5 ESXi installed on IDSDM.

  Given that we are still using ESXi 5.1, we want to set up this server to make it work also ESXi 5.1 update 3.

  There are 2 physical disks in SAS, which has been configured as RAID1.

  We would like to know when we install ESXi 5.1, ought to move the disk RAID1 or IDSDM cards?

  If IDSDM cards are preferred, is used for the local HD in RAID?

  If we should install on local RAID HD, can we use IDSDM as SSD for ESXi host cards?

  Thank you

  In addition, if we install in the HD, can we use the SD card to ESXi host? : - You can install in HD and SD card is used to keep the backup in case of failure of HD of ESXi image. To do this, you must put the image cache in the SD card.

  If you install in the SD card, then you must configure the scratches in HD because of the constraint of space with CD card.

• Problem of ESXi 5.5 and RAID

  So I have an ESXi host and RAID problem with a motherboard for Intel Server S1200V3RP. Basically, the problem is that the 5.5 ESXi host is not recognizing the RAID array set up with the utility integrated. See the images below for what I mean.
  
  

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  I did some research and my research has pointed out to me the possibility that this on the Intel Server raid controller is not actually a hardware controller but a piece of software built using the computer as controller. My research basically tells me that ESXi is super picky and don't play well with fake RAID. Although I may be wrong on this subject the behaviour of ESXi and each site Web I found says that this may be the case. I tried integrating storage and RAID drivers in the iso ESXi, I tried to update the BIOS chipset with the deployment server disk, and the management and I tried a USB installation with the drivers but nothing seems to solve this problem.

  Since ESXi does not the table as something other than dedicated disks, I tried an inventive work around by choosing the AHCI BIOS and install ESXi 5.5 mode host on a dedicated disk (volume 0). Then I switched back to RAID and used the Intel Rapid Storage Management utility to configure a RAID5 to three remaining disks. It seems to work very well and I was able to access the vsphere ESXi environment. However I couldn't see the RAID volume again on vsphere storage.

  I've plotted a plan where I could load the drives as individual data on the host and virtual server stores use the disk management utility or another program for RAID 3 hard drives together so that they appear as a single volume. However when I booted the system upward it appeared that the integrity of the RAID5 degraded after the addition of each drive separately (probably because he had to load a VMFS on each disc, thereby breaking the table). So this probably won't work (and even if it's possible, it's probably unnecessarily complex).

  
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  So yes, I don't have really a clear idea of the place where to go to get the RAID controller integrated to be read by ESXi. I was told that there may be compatibility issues between VMware and my Intel server model, but I checked and its on its list of approved so compatibility it couldn't be her. I guess I could just stick with dedicated drives and load the HARD drives as data stores, and then use software RAID across virtual machines - but I am concerned about the way in which redundancy will include when we drive finally fails (could I just Exchange on as a hardware raid?). I always thought that software RAID (especially on windows server disk management) smb read and write speed is terrible compared to hardware RAID.

  Anyone know a solution to this problem or where I could go from here?

  I did some research and my research has pointed out to me the possibility that this on the Intel Server raid controller is not actually a hardware controller but a piece of software built using the computer as controller. My research basically tells me that ESXi is super picky and don't play well with fake RAID.

  ESXi is not 'super picky' here. This kind of fake-RAIDs that are so common on desktop PC motherboards and entry-level rely on specific drivers provided by the hardware vendor to work really. And suppliers basically only provide Windows drivers in the first place. Any other non-OS Windows would be faced with the same question. Try installing a Linux and that you will not see your RAID volume either.

  Yes, your motherboard does not use a real independent of hardware RAID but a cheap RAID/fake-software controller. See the Intel website:

  http://Ark.Intel.com/products/71385/Intel-Server-Board-S1200V3RPS

  RST (0,1,10,5) RAID and ESRT2 (0,1,10) RAID Configuration software

• Install ESXi 5.5 sees physical not virtual disks

  Hi guys,.

  a bit of a beginner but I installed ESXi a few times before and having OK knowledge of server hardware.

  I have a server machine that had previously installed Microsoft 2008 is no longer in use so I thought to make good use and install ESXi.

  The machine has 3 x 250 and 2 x 2 GB disks.

  At the start of the machine, I dutifully press Ctrl-E and configure the 3 drives in 1 x 470GB virtual drive.

  However, when ESXi 5.5 has just installed it lists disks in the following order to ask me to choose 1:

  250 GB

  2 GB

  2 GB

  250 GB

  250 GB

  I'm sure I'm doing something really stupid, but for the life of me I can't.

  Someone has an idea?

  Thank you, Steve...

  You have not given any information on your hardware, but I guess that you used "fake raid" (or "bios raid") to create a single virtual drive. It is NOT supported with ESXi. Only real hardware-controllers...

• Install ESXi

  Dear guys,

  I have 2 esx 4.0 host and I would migrate to ESXi.
  I want to reinstall the hypervisors and I have this config:

  -1 for ESX RAID 1 logical unit number

  -1 VMFS RAID 5 LUNS

  I can't get him off ESX 4.0 installation ESXi keeping VMs on VMFS?
  I would like to install some hypervisors on RAID 1 LUN keeping safe VMs on VMFS

  The question is, ESXi installation, would this work? for example. I have install ESXi and then he discovered VMFS with VM automatically.

  Thanks in advance.

  Daniele

  ESXi will wipe away the LUN on which you install the hypervisor. All other LUNS will remain intact and discovered after the installation. All you need to do - after the configuration of the host - is to add the virtual machine to inventory.

  André

• Install ESXi 4.1 on RAID1

  I may be making it more difficult than necessary. ESXi can be installed on a RAID1?

  I tried, configured my RAID1, created the partition, but when I go to install ESXi, I show the hard drives and not the RAID1.

  Any ideas or suggestions?

  Thanks in advance,

  Allen

  you are using an unsupported software raid controller, so esx is not assists the sector remapping and is able to identify individual readers.

  I suggest try ESXi on a USB key and from there you can see if the RAID1 array will appear as a single volume, which you can use for vmfs.

  Don't forget 2 things if... size of RAID 1 may not exceed then 2 TB - 512 bytes or esx will not size properly (probably not a problem unless you have used 3 TB disks)

  Performance is going to be pretty bad, because there is no battery backup on the controller itself, so the write speed will suck under load.

• Cannot install ESXi 4.1 on HP ML350 G6

  I'm not able to install ESXi 4.1 on my HP ML350 G6 server.  I have 2 Intel Xeon 5650processor w/6 hearts each, 16 GB memory, RAID 1 + 0 on HP Smart Array P410i controller channel with 6 X 300 GB SAS 10 K disks.  The DVD-ROM is SATA.  The boots just fine CD and get all the way to choose the disk to install it on, but it shows as a remote disc and when I proceed with the installation I get this message:

  The installation operation has encounterd a fatal error:

  Cannot find the image of the installed system. This is due to the image, not been correctly mounted the CD-ROM not supported.

  Curve ball.  I am able to install ESX 4.1 and was able to connect vSphere Client to configure the host.  Why no ESXi?

  I appreciate all the help, I tried as much as I know how.

  Matt

  have you tried to mount the ISO through the ILO instead of using a physical disk? also check the MD5 of the download to make sure it is ok

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