yonif Posted August 31, 2015 #1 Posted August 31, 2015 Hello I am encountering an issue and I hope that I will find some help here. I have a HP N54L (with modified BIOS) that I use with ESXI 5.5 Until last week, I was using the following configuration: 4 x 6To HDD plugged on the 4 bays of the HP. 1 250go HDD for the OS (Datastore) plugged on the Sata Port 5. Everything was working perfectly. Now, i have just bought 2 new 6To HDD. I would like to have 7 disks working at the same time (6 for storage, 1 for the OS). In order to make this possible, I bought a Syba SI-PEX40061 Sata HDD controller card which is supposed to be compatible with the HP N54L as indicated on several forums. I wanted to have the following configuration: 4 x 6To HDD plugged on the N54L bays the 250go HDD on the Sata Port 5 the 2 last 6To HDD plugged to the new Syba Sata Controller Card. Unfortunately, I am not able to make those 2 new disks work. ESXI is not able to see them. In other words, when I am trying to add those 2 new disks with RDM in ESXI, I cannot see them listed in /dev/disks In addition, on the Hard Disks section of the HP Bios, I can see the 2 new disks but their names contains the prefix IDE instead of HDD. It looks like they are detected as IDE and not AHCI. In short, I cannot make my new HDD work with ESXI (so Xpenology). Does someone have an idea for me ? Is there someone who was able run Xpenology with 6 HDD for storage (excluding the disk used for the OS). If yes, how ? With a Sata Controller Card ? Which one ? Thank you for your help.
sbv3000 Posted August 31, 2015 #2 Posted August 31, 2015 I think the Syba SATA card (Marvel 88SE9120 chipset) you are using is not supported by ESXi, so ESXi can't see it as a storage controller and so any disks attached. There might be a workaround for you here http://www.v-front.de/2013/11/how-to-ma ... -ahci.html Hope this helps
yonif Posted September 3, 2015 Author #3 Posted September 3, 2015 I think the Syba SATA card (Marvel 88SE9120 chipset) you are using is not supported by ESXi, so ESXi can't see it as a storage controller and so any disks attached. There might be a workaround for you here http://www.v-front.de/2013/11/how-to-ma ... -ahci.html Hope this helps It solved the problem. Thank you for your help !
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