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Install ESXi on a SR2500ALLX server (S5000PAL motherboard)

  • 1.  Install ESXi on a SR2500ALLX server (S5000PAL motherboard)

    Posted Mar 17, 2011 06:22 PM

    Hello,

    I would like to install Esxi to this server model but I recently discovered that the LSI controller installed on board isn't recognized by vmware when using RAID so I only can use it in a non raid configuration.

    But I don't want to put my virtual machines into an non-redunded environment, so I'm thinking to a solution in order to solve this problem.

    Somebody told that passing the noapic parameter at boot to esx solve the problem, I did it but it didn't work; so now esx boot (I installed it on a USB drive) but is unable to see my disks, so I can't create my datastore.

    Somebody has a solution to suggest me?

    Thank you



  • 2.  RE: Install ESXi on a SR2500ALLX server (S5000PAL motherboard)

    Posted Mar 20, 2011 10:00 PM

    somebody here can help me?



  • 3.  RE: Install ESXi on a SR2500ALLX server (S5000PAL motherboard)

    Posted Mar 21, 2011 07:04 AM

    Access the console and run fdisk  -l.  Are the disks visible?  Also run lspci -p to see if a module (driver) is listed for the onboard controller.   With some LSI controllers they are software RAID which ESXi does not support.