Silicon image 3512 PCI SATA 'RAID'

I'd guess that any from /etc/vmware/pciid/sata_sil.xml would work;

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
<pcitable>
<vendor id="1095">
<short>CMD Technology Inc</short>
<name>CMD Technology Inc</name>
<device id="3112">
<vmware label="scsi">
<driver>sata_sil</driver>
</vmware>
<name>SiI 3112 SATALink/SATARaid Serial ATA Controller</name>
</device>
<device id="0240">
<vmware label="scsi">
<driver>sata_sil</driver>
</vmware>
<name>Adaptec AAR-1210SA SATA HostRAID Controller</name>
</device>
<device id="3512">
<vmware label="scsi">
<driver>sata_sil</driver>
</vmware>
<name>SiI 3512 SATALink/SATARaid Serial ATA Controller</name>
</device>
<device id="3114">
<vmware label="scsi">
<driver>sata_sil</driver>
</vmware>
<name>SiI 3114 SATALink/SATARaid Serial ATA Controller</name>
</device>
</vendor>
</pcitable>

Must be turned on in the BIOS for RAID to work (default is off weirdly) otherwise its just normal SATA. VT is also turned off in the BIOS by default.

Pretty sure it would work though. Worked fine on the single disk though, no issues.

Yeah I had VMFS on the SATA disk.

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3.5/SATA_mounting_root_failed.html

1. Booted ESX server using the console option.

2. Executed lspci to find the device id for the controller. name: LSE LOGIC / SYMBIOLOGIC: UNKNOWN DEVICE 0413 (rev 02)

3. The vendor/device id is 1000:0413

4.The driver file being used is megaRAID_sas.xml, which I modifed an exisiting device with id 0411 to 0413. The reason why I chose megaRAID_sas.xml and not megaRAID2.xml is because this is the driver ESX uses during the first install.

Is this correct, or do I have to add the whole sub-section in the .xml file in _sas.xml in ..raid2.xml?

This is really annoying the hell out of me now.. Please help!

http://SORRY GUYS, BUT HAVING RE-READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY I HAD FORGOT TO RUN ESXCFG-PCIID.

IT WORKED!

BUT NOW Vertual Centre is complaining when you try to add it as a host!

THANKS GUYS. YOU WILL ALL BE GETTING POINTS!
Newbie

The only issue you will find is if you use a PATA DVD Drive as the PATA controller is not supported (I disable the PATA Controller in the BIOS). I used an ASUS SATA DVD drive an it installed like a dream.

Also to my suprise when I connected to the VI Console I could use the VMFS Partition on the local to run VM's from as the HDD (320GB Samsung SATA 2 HDD) was detected as a SCSI disk and as such ESX classes this as Enterprise so it will run .

As a side bonus I am running 8 GB of Ram as the board supports this so I have plenty of head room for VM's to run on. All in all it is a quick system that runs ESX 3.5 very well. The total sysem parts are:

ASUS V3 P5G33 Barebones

Intel Q6600 Processor

Kingston Value Ram 8GB (KVR667D2N5K2/4G) Incedentally the 800 MHz ram will work also (KVR800D2N5K2/4G)

2 * Intel Pro 100 Nic's (Will be upgrading to the Intel Pro 1000 PT Dual Adaptor soon

I have a Gigabyte 7800 GTX 256 Graphics card (NOT NEEDED as onboard card works fine, I swap drives from a caddy and use this system for games as well hence the extra card)

All up less the graphics card it was under $800.00 AUS. I plan to buy another system exactly the same and run a Thecus N5200B Pro with ISCSI for VMotion and HA. (At the moment however the Thecus isn't capable of doing thi sproperly yet but I am sure it is just a matter of time before Thecus release a new firmware version to do it)

Cheers and thatks all that posted their systems as it really helped me narrow down my choice to this config.