topic ESXi 7.0 cannot detect Dell R710 and R910 RAID controller card in ESXi Discussions

ESXi 7.0 cannot detect Dell R710 and R910 RAID controller card

stephenyu05 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:27:01 GMT

I could install ESXi 7.0on Dell R710 and R910 for homelab

But ESXi cannot detect the raid card with storage.

I know this RAID card did not support in esxi7.

Can we make driver to support raid card?

Re: ESXi 7.0 cannot detect Dell R710 and R910 RAID controller card

IRIX201110141 — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:03:22 GMT

No not possible. New 7.0 only supports it "native" driver and not the old vmklinux anymore. Also the Dell 11. Gen was supportet up to 6.0 and not for 6.5(works) and 6.7(not work) because the old Nehalem and Westmare not supportet anymore and ESXi installer refuse to run.

Regards,

Joerg

Re: ESXi 7.0 cannot detect Dell R710 and R910 RAID controller card

Bartjuhh — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:41:35 GMT

thats weird it used to work both 6.7 (only a warning) and 7.0 (with AllowLegacyCPU=true as a boot option)

now when i try to install it it doesnt recognize the drives so i just should throw away my r710 because its useless to me now