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When you say "I have 2 WD3 TB drives each is it's own datastore" do you mean that you have created a VMware datastore on top of each disk?

I updated iLO and HBA firmware to the latests versions, BIOS already came updated. I'm running vanilla version of ESXi but after running into trouble I installed the p212 esxi driver. Just to clarify, the virtual machines DO start up, but then hang on boot, sometimes even crashing the vmkernel. I might have to go back to the local RDM route, sadly

Yes, vsphere client does it automatically when you passthrough a pci device. I've been doing a bit more testing and I think it might have something to do with the ESXi, because I tried passing the hba to a windows machine and it also got stuck booting. ESXi build is 4192238 and I also updated the ESXi hp driver, although I'm not sure this one was completely necessary.

Hello, I'm running ESXI 6.0u2 in a Microserver Gen8 with an E3 1220l-v2, 16Gb of ram and a recently added HP P212 hba. Everything works fine if I create local RDMs and add them to the VM, but if I passthrough the HBA to the virtual machine, xpenoboot gets stuck at "Loading module hpsa: [busy]". I tried booting a baremetal DSM5.2-5644 and it works perfectly and it detects the HBA disks in slots 7,8,9 and 10. I've also tried different bootloaders for the VM with varying results; 5.1 bootloaders can't see the HBA nor the disks, and DSM5.2-5967.1 boots correctly but it doesn't see the disks attached to the HBA (It also doesn't let me create volumes from the virtual disks attached. Is there a solution to the "Loading module hpsa: [busy]" problem? Ideally, I'd like to keep the VM and pass the HBA through to it.