Hello,
I have just installed ESXi 6.0. My server has 3 RAID 1 volumes of 2 disks each. When trying to create a datastore, I am unable to tell which disk belongs to which volume. I would like to create 3 datastores, each on its own RAID volume. Here is the picture of what I am seeing. I would imagine 0 and 1 to be a Volume. Likewise 2, 3. Etc...
I was hoping someone could tell me which ones are the RAID volumes.
Are you sure you configured the RAID on the server correctly or consider checking whether or not your RAID card is on the HCL. If you had 3 RAID 1 volumes you should only see three possibilities.
Yes. This is Intel on board RAID rather than an add-in card. That's exactly what I would expect. But I created and verified the RAID volumes before exiting the Ctrl+I utility.
If this is any help. 4 of 6 disks get the error Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" failed when trying to create a datastore. But all of these disks were wiped when they were added to the RAID volume.
Kindly Check HCL and make sure the RAID controller is supported.
If you can share the make and model of card and server you are using.
Have your tried re configuring RAID? may be for testing purpose use RAID 0 and check.
If ESXi can not see raid-volumes (and can see individual disks instead) it is software-/bios-/fake-raid you have. This is not supported by ESXi, and you can not use such a "raid-array" for datastore. At least not directly...
JarryG
Do we have any documentation stating ESXi does not support fakeRAID
This topic has been discussed here many times (might easily be the most frequently asked question), I do not understand what documentation do you want to see. Take it simply as fact. We have HCL, with list of hardware that does work. You will not find single fake-/bios-/software-raid controller there. And it is for very good reasons.
Fake-raid controllers need OS-support, some kind of "driver", and there is none for ESXi. Moreover, fake-raid controllers are usually very simple, lacking any on-board cache and cpu. Even if you made them work with ESXi, you would get trully terrible performance...
Intel On-board RAID.
I have, several times. I will check if its supported.
Thats what I was looking for.
Thank you
