Hello,
I have a Z400 workstation Xeon W3680, 24GB RAM, with a P410 SAS Controller and 4x3TB SAS disks.
ESXi 6.7u3 is installed on it, and I have DSM 6.2.3-25426 (DS3615xs), everything works fine, except for drives
In my previous installation (HP NL40, 12GB RAM, 4x1TB SATA, ESXi 6.0) I used RDM to mount them, works fine (but no SMART)
With my new configuration I thought i could use the RAID capability of the SAS Controller (+ SMART), so instead of using RDM, I build a raid 5 volume from P410 manager, and activate the pass-through for PCI HP P410.
But in DSM, I was unable to see my volume, so I have deleted the RAID5 volume (made from P410 manager) to be able to see disks in DSM, but the disk list is still empty.
(with pass through off, i was able to see disks and volume with ssacli)
What is the good solution ?
1- No volume created with P410 manager
2- Pass through activated on PCI HP 410 Ctrl
3- Add the PCI device to the Xpen VM
4- works ?
or
1- RAID 5 volume created with P410 manager
2- NO Pass through on PCI HP 410 Ctrl
3- Add the RAID5 volume as a raw disk to the VM
4- works ?
or
1- No volume created with P410 manager
2- NO Pass through on PCI HP 410 Ctrl
3- Add each disc as RDM device
4- works ?
Thanks