[PCIE sata card+ESXI, disk not showing]

2 minutes ago, sbv3000 said:

is that marvell controller supported in ESXi, ie can you see it as a storage controller in the ESXi console? I suspect it may not be supported (depricated) have a look at this post.

https://www.v-front.de/2013/11/how-to-make-your-unsupported-sata-ahci.html

 

You can reinject the drivers to ESXi with powershell, but that still might not give passthrough

 

 

It is supported in ESXI,  showing correctly in ESXI pcie devices and able to mark it enable. 

Tried with a windows VM today,   add pass through ,  recognize fine ,   hdd tune is able to read smart as well, /      so I think it's not esxi issue

[PCIE sata card+ESXI, disk not showing]

Hi All,   

 

I started building a esxi solution with jun's mod v1.02b

 

What I did is

Use star converter, get a vmdk image for booting,  

In ESXI, created a new vm and start from the vmdk image

Installation works fine and able to login to system and apply some patches.  

 

The issue I got is,  

I am using a PCIE sata card,  in order to get smart info and make disk sleep

SYBA SI-PEX40057 PCI-Express 2.0 x2 Low Profile SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) 4-port RAID Card

This one is using marvell 88SE9230 PCIe SATA 6Gb/s Controller

 

I remember this is a supported chip by DSM,   not sure why after I enable direct pass through,   nothing show up in DSM management interface.   

 

Is there any extra step I need to do with jun's mod?  load driver?