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Adaptec RAID 71605Q

My goal is to run esxi on a small ssd, then create a large RAID array that's hanging off an Adaptec RAID 71605Q card, in the same physical system.

I'm struggling with this; I have esxi 6 (the free version of the hypervisor) running, I have a RAID5 array setup via the CTRL+A bios setup, but I can't get esxi to "see" the Adaptec controller.

I've downloaded the vmware 6.0 drivers from the Adaptec site; used WinSCP to copy them to the host's tmp folder; ssh'd into the hose via putty and ran the command "esxcli software vib install -v {VIBFILE}" (of course using the vib filename); and rebooted the host. But...when I run the vmware client and connect to the host, I still can't see the Adaptec controllor, nor can I see the RAID array I created.

So...how do I proceed?

Thanks!

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Well, I figured it out (thank you, Jesus!).

Adaptec - Adaptec Driver: Adaptec RAID 71605Q Firmware/BIOS Update Ver. 7.5.0 Build 32106 Download D...

Yeah...troubleshooting 101: check the firmware on the RAID card. Sheesh.

By the way, Adaptec; the 80's called and they want their DOS based flash utility back!! I seriously had to create a DOS boot USB stick and run the adaptec flash utility from there.  Thankfully, there's RUFUS to help with that. Awesome! Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

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Well, I figured it out (thank you, Jesus!).

Adaptec - Adaptec Driver: Adaptec RAID 71605Q Firmware/BIOS Update Ver. 7.5.0 Build 32106 Download D...

Yeah...troubleshooting 101: check the firmware on the RAID card. Sheesh.

By the way, Adaptec; the 80's called and they want their DOS based flash utility back!! I seriously had to create a DOS boot USB stick and run the adaptec flash utility from there.  Thankfully, there's RUFUS to help with that. Awesome! Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

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