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Threadripper on x399, RAID10 not detected

ESXi 6.7u3

Threadripper 1900x

MSI X399

www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X399-SLI-PLUS

4x2tb WD red @ SATA 0,1,2,3

SAMSUNG ssd (esxi +swap)

So i found this big Dell box, with two old xeons and 8gb ram, saw some free budget in the department, put two and two together and voilà...

At first the datastorage was via NFS on a NAS nearby. However, that was slow (network and poor NAS performance).

It was running ok for 1year though.

Recently i added the 4 drives for a test of raid10 as faster local datastorage option but the raid was not detected by ESXi as a storage device.

Do i need drivers (by AMD, MSI, VMware, the pope), how to load those?

Is there a tick i didn't tick somewhere?

I'm stuck...

Anyone, kindly, share a thought please.

At least, thanks for reading

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IRIX201110141
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ESXi does not support Fake- or Chipsets RAID because of driver support.

If you boot from USB or similar you can try to Passtrough the Onboard controller so a VM including the drives and created a software raid their and use it as a Storage VM (export NFS/iSCSI).

Regards,
Joerg

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IRIX201110141
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ESXi does not support Fake- or Chipsets RAID because of driver support.

If you boot from USB or similar you can try to Passtrough the Onboard controller so a VM including the drives and created a software raid their and use it as a Storage VM (export NFS/iSCSI).

Regards,
Joerg

Katphish
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Thanks!

I was afraid it is going that way.

Indeed your suggestion sounds like best option.

Perhaps i will use www.openmediavault.org (freeNAS maybe), or a convenient desktop linux distro for that....

Kind regards

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