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4 Replies Last post: Jan 8, 2009 2:50 AM by Luke198224  

Use local SATA Disk as Storage for VMs on ESX3i posted: Jan 8, 2009 12:34 AM

Click to view Luke198224's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Feb 27, 2008

hello all,

I just setup my ESX3i on my desktop dell optiplex 745.

Installed ESX3i on the USB directly with this manual:

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Boot%203i%20from%20USB%20flash%20drive.html

modified the oem.tgz as described here so my local ICH8 SATA controller is recognized.

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php

when i check now with lspci -v, i can see the controller is mounted as vmhba1, but in VI3 i can't see it.

Rescaned, restarted again, set Sata to legacy and back, nothing helped

Do I need to format the drive manually as vmfs so it's recognized by esx?

Any idea?

Thanks

Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru 8,983 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
Your post has been moved to the ESXi forum

Dave Mishchenko
VMware Communities User Moderator

If you run fdisk -l do you see the HD?
Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru 8,983 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
Take a look at this thread and what Scottish Captain mentions about the mode of the controller - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1084357#1084357.

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