Hi there,
I am running a patched (ESXi 5 -> 6 -> 7) ESXi and installed a Western Digital SN850 1TB drive on my Asus mainboard. I noticed, that the M.2 drive appeared within the BIOS settings, but was not selectable as boot media. Within ESXi, I found a Sandisk drive:
esxcli hardware pci list
0000:03:00.0
Address: 0000:03:00.0
Segment: 0x0000
Bus: 0x03
Slot: 0x00
Function: 0x0
VMkernel Name:
Vendor Name: Sandisk Corp
Device Name: <class> Non-Volatile memory controller
Configured Owner: VMkernel
Current Owner: VMkernel
Vendor ID: 0x15b7
Device ID: 0x5011
SubVendor ID: 0x15b7
SubDevice ID: 0x5011
Device Class: 0x0108
Device Class Name: Non-Volatile memory controller
Programming Interface: 0x02
Revision ID: 0x01
Interrupt Line: 0x0b
IRQ: 255
Interrupt Vector: 0x00
PCI Pin: 0x00
Spawned Bus: 0x00
Flags: 0x3001
Module ID: -1
Module Name: None
Chassis: 0
Physical Slot: 2
Slot Description: Chassis slot 2; function 0
Device Layer Bus Address: s00000002.00
Passthru Capable: false
Parent Device: PCI 0:0:1:1
Dependent Device: PCI 0:3:0:0
Reset Method: Function reset
FPT Sharable: false
NUMA Node: 0
Extended Device ID: 0
Extended Device Name:
I could not select it within the storage options. Does anyone know how to include the drive?
