ESXI 5.5 & 3ware 9750 - Help

[satexas]

I'm new to VSphere and ESXi, but I've installed 5.5 vSphere Hyper with ESXI...

Under "configuration --> Storage --> Devices, my 3ware 9750 shows, but it shows as "unsupported".  I saw a 3ware patch for 5.0, and applied it to no avail... anyone gotten this to work?

Server shows this:

Local LSI Disk (naa.600050e0afe61a0027b90000c1440000)
Type : disk
Drive Type : Non-SSD
Transport: Parallel SCSI
Capacity 7.28 TB
Hardware: Not Supported

The following is what showed once I tried THIS particular patch - but on reboot, still says "unsupported device"

esxcli software vib install -d "LSI_3.26.00.003vm50-offline_bundle-646893.zip"
  Installation Result    Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted 
     for the changes to be effective.
    Reboot Required: true
     VIBs Installed: LSI_bootbank_scsi-3w-sas_3.26.00.003vm50-1OEM.500.0.0.472560
   VIBs Removed:  
  VIBs Skipped:

[jrmunday]

Are you referring to the Hardware Acceleration column?

Hardware Acceleration Support Status

For each storage device and datastore, the vSphere Web Client display the hardware acceleration support status.

The status values are Unknown, Supported, and Not Supported. The initial value is Unknown.

For block devices, the status changes to Supported after the host successfully performs the offload operation. If the offload operation fails, the status changes to Not Supported. The status remains Unknown if the device provides partial hardware acceleration support.

With NAS, the status becomes Supported when the storage can perform at least one hardware offload operation.

When storage devices do not support or provide partial support for the host operations, your host reverts to its native methods to perform unsupported operations.

[tomtom901]

Hardware acceleration is VAAI, something you can never achieve on local storage. So don't worry about this. VAAI allows the SAN or NFS storage (so no local storage) to do some offloading tasks for the ESXi hosts.

[satexas]

Ok, I see my error.

I couldn't create any virtual machines on my 3750, and I thought (mistakenly) that it was a driver issue, when in fact, I simply  needed to add it as a datastore type.

Thank you.