ESXi5 + SAS SAN Installation

[bedde]

We have recently bought an IBM System X Server 7979AC1 with ESXi 5.0.0 with SAS HBA's.

Also we bought an (SAN) IBM DS3512 Storage System with SAS Controller.

The DS3512 is directly attached to the server.

I cannot however see the DS3512 (SAN) when trying to configure datastores.

How can I see if the drivers for the HBA on the server has been installed?

Does anyone have any experience with installing ESXi + a SAS SAN solution?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[tomtom901]

So, what you have is DAS (Direct Attached Storage). Don't you need to have some kind of RAID card for this? We've got a Dell MD3000 (also a DAS) hooked up to a server, but that server has a PERC external RAID controller on which we create RAID volumes. Then they become visible to the host as virtual disks and we can create datastores on them.

[bedde]

Tomtom901,

The IBM DS3512 does have a RAID controller which is used to create RAID volumes.

The issue that I am having is that in ESXi 5 I can not see the DS3512 that is hooked up to our VM Server.

[alexerror2000]

Hello  bedde,

At Caterpillar in Russia we use ESXi 5.5 servers with IBM DS 3512, if you need help - asks me - icq is 238298932