Cheap SATA card for my wmware ESXi 6.5

[thecazz]

Hi

I have search and I have found some people like me looking for some cheap SATA card that works with wmware.

What I understand that is after a upgrade (I Think it was 5.0 or maybe 5.5) wmware did remove support for some SATA card that was working with the generic drivers.

My server is a old workstation that I use for fun and to host some of my servers that I run at home so I do not look for any fast tranfer or that. I just like to add two of my last 3TB 5400rpm disk,

I have look in the wmware list VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search  and that is alot that still have support in 6.5

I do have a old RAID card but to bad that Vmware can't find it. then I did buy Another card that was going to work but the bracket that send to me was low profile and somehow I can't get it to work.

I don't care if that is a old one, I just want it to work with Wmware 6.5

My computer have

PCIe 2.0x1 slot

PCIe 2.0/3.0x16 slot

PCI slot

free to use.

Do someone can give me any idea what to buy, have no problem to buy from ebay

[MartinGustafsso]

Dell Perc H310 (LSI 2008 chipset) is a common card used, quite cheap on eBay and supports IT mode if that's wanted.

[kkamatcchi]

kindly provide the make and model of the new card which you purchase

[thecazz]

Ahh ok going to look for that

[thecazz]

PCI Express SAS Sata RAID Interface Card LSI SAS3041E

I did not have any port that I can use.

[MartinGustafsso]

The LSI 9240-8i (Perc H310) is PCIe 8x, it will fit in a PCIe x16 slot.