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Schorschi
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Sil3124 or 3132 controllers support in ESXi 5.x?

Sil3124 or 3132 controllers support in ESXi 5.x?  I found a lot of references to these controllers working in ESXi 4.1, but not ESXi 5.x?  Anyone work on this?  Have a solution?

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tidaltides
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I got a problem with this one. Silicon image 3132 controllers doesn't recognized by ESXi 5.0. I am not sure if I only made something wrong or it may really not compatible to this version. Anyone that have a different story?

Thanks in advance:smileysilly:

DjAndy01
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Hi,

I found something on this Japanese site. They claim having a working driver for 5.x. I have not had a chance to test it myself, but since I was/am in search for the same thing, I thouhgt to publish the link. http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/2268

rgrds,

Andy

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Schorschi
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Actually as of 5.1 GA, one of the specific SATA (fake RAID) controllers I have (I have 3 different ones) is recognized, such that my disks are seen as JBOD, which is fine for my small scale white-box, test bed.  ESXi 5.0, and 5.0 U1 did not work, but 5.1 GA does, go figure.

The specific VMs I run on my white-box are processor/memory intensive versus disk intensive, so using lower end SATA is completely acceptable in my case, but I would not call it fast.  No compared to other options, SCSI controllers, true full SATA controllers, etc. for DASD based datastores.

Build for ESXi I am running is 799733.  Driver is sata_sil24.  Connected to a SAN Digital like 8-bay tower, eSATA, 2 multiplexor, to PCIe 2 port eSATA card.  VEN PCI information is... LSPCI output from ESXi...  Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Sil 3132 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller.

AlbertWT
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Virtuoso

Hi,

So what's the symptoms ?

I also cannot see my hard drive content using the Sil 3132 eSATA controller attached to my HP DL 360 G7 server.

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no matter how many times you re-scan, it just doesn't recognizes the hard drive using the eSATA casing.

Upon looking this KB article: VMware KB: Devices deprecated and unsupported in ESXi 5.5 sit shows that it is "deprecated"

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