ESXi Install - Nvidia Raid

[jmvirtual]

Yeah I know its unsupported technically... however, I thought maybe someone here could help me a bit with me being new to VMware and all.

I have a XFX680i board with has the MCP61 Raid controller mentioned in this discussion here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/126404

In RAID it can see the individual SATA HDD's (id: 037f) when I install it makes be select on drive from the array. After Selecting it the install moves forward and reboots then I get a Boot Error (thats all it says) I'm not sure where to go with it at this point any help is much appreciated.

[jmvirtual]

Array: 2x SATA 250gb 7200RPM in RAID 0 Config is what I want to end up with.

update.... taking the SATA Disk' out of RAID and reinstalling allows me to boot in successfully.

[Dave_Mishchenko · Accepted solution]

The drivers that come with ESX(i) don't support software RAID arrays for controllers like the MCP controller you have.

Dave

VMware Communities User Moderator

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