Just got a couple new hosts in, HP DL380 G7s... using Smart Array P410i controllers.
When I boot into the CD to begin the install, it's only seeing my FC storage, none of my local storage.
I'm obviously doing something silly and dumb, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong.
There's basically not much you can do wrong and from what you write about setting up the RAID everything should be fine. Can you confirm that the logical volume is detected by the RAID controller during boot?
When you install ESXI the volume - although local - will most likely show up under remote storage. Can you also confirm it does not show up at all?
André
5/5/2011 firmware tested and confirmed to be up to date. Firmware updates appear to be off the table.
There's basically not much you can do wrong and from what you write about setting up the RAID everything should be fine. Can you confirm that the logical volume is detected by the RAID controller during boot?
When you install ESXI the volume - although local - will most likely show up under remote storage. Can you also confirm it does not show up at all?
André
Sigh.. and there would be the silly/dumb thing I did (or did not do).
I just unplugged the FC storage, restarted the install, and the storage was still showing up - which means that it's obviously the local storage, even though it does show up as remote in the install.
I've never seen local storage with the naa.123456789123456789 style of extent listed before... only something such as mpx.vmhba1:aa:bb:cc...
Glad it was a simple fix, install is proceeding nicely. Thank you for your help.