I have a system that has an Areca ARC-1680ix. The driver isn't available on the install CD so I installed the drive on the motherboards SATA controller, installed VMware ESXi, installed the correct drivers. Then I restarted, moved the drive to my RAID controller as a pass-through.
VMware ESXi boots fine but the DataStore it normally creates with the spare space on the drive isn't available. When I try to create a new DataStore and point it to this disk, it sees the VMFS and even gives me the label. The wizard gives me 2 options that make sense:
Keep the existing signature
Assign a new signature
When I select either of them and click next, it says "The selected disk already has a VMFS datastore. Select another disk.".
The datastore doesn't have any data on it so if I had to delete it and recreate it I am ok with this. Or do I need to create a custom install disk with my RAID drivers installed then reinstall?