PERC H700 Integrated + 6x SAS 6Gbps SSD = Non-SSD drive type?

[jrmunday]

Hi All,

Hopefully something quick and easy ...

I have installed a PERC H700 Integrated into a Dell R815 server and fully populated the 6x disk bays with 400GB SAS 6Gbps SSD drives. I created the virtual disk using the BIOS boot utility (Ctrl + R) but when creating the datastore, it shows these as Non-SSD drive types.

Am I missing a simple configuration or VIB, or should I simply tell the host that these are SSD's;

VMware KB: Enabling the SSD option on SSD based disks/LUNs that are not detected as SSD by default

Thanks,

Jon

[jrmunday · Accepted solution]

I followed the KB article to tag the device as a SSD;

~ # esxcli storage core device list -d naa.6b8ca3a0e79b9500194b56ec78ca4044

naa.6b8ca3a0e79b9500194b56ec78ca4044

  Display Name: Local DELL Disk (naa.6b8ca3a0e79b9500194b56ec78ca4044)

  Has Settable Display Name: true

  Size: 1142784

  Device Type: Direct-Access

  Multipath Plugin: NMP

  Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6b8ca3a0e79b9500194b56ec78ca4044

  Vendor: DELL

  Model: PERC H700

  Revision: 2.10

  SCSI Level: 5

  Is Pseudo: false

  Status: on

  Is RDM Capable: false

  Is Local: true

  Is Removable: false

Is SSD: true

  Is Offline: false

  Is Perennially Reserved: false

  Thin Provisioning Status: unknown

  Attached Filters:

  VAAI Status: unsupported

  Other UIDs: vml.02000000006b8ca3a0e79b9500194b56ec78ca4044504552432048