DSM 7.1 in ESXi: Mapping LSI2008 Card

Hey everyone! I actually got my Xpenology fully booted thanks to this virtualization guide and this general install guide, but neither provided me enough details to get my raid card active. To begin, here are my specs: VM or BareMetal : VM - ESXi 6.7U3 Hardware (Motherboard/CPU) : Gigabyte M370M DS3H / Intel 8400 Storage-Controller: 1x LSI SAS 9211-8i (HBA in IT mode) Hot Plug/Hot Swap Applied : Yes version of rploader.sh : 0.8.0.3 Platform (DS3622xsp/DS918+/DS920+/DVA322

Thanks @flyride. Just to remove any other potential errors from the equation, I recreated the machine once again. I used all the commands above, with the addition of the mpt3sas driver: ./rploader.sh ext broadwellnk-7.1.0-42661 add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pocopico/rp-ext/master/mpt3sas/rpext-index.json and then also used the following command to adjust the DiskIdxMap=1000 vi user_config.json Now it works! Seriously big thanks. I was ready to ins