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Samsung 960 Pro not showing on ESX 6.5 install

Hi All,

I was wanting to do some testing on the new virtual nvme controller at the VM level

On the ESX 6.5 installer the 960 pro NVME drive was showing as an install option, however the server (DL380 G8) doesn't support booting from this drive

So I've installed ESX onto a single SSD

Now that I've booted into ESXi 6.5 I can't see the NVME drive anywhere

I know this drive is consumer but was wondering is there anyway to get it working ?

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rolfed
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Never mind, I reboot the server again and this time the drive is showing

So it's confirmed, 960 pro NVME drives do work fine out of the box on esx 6.5

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rolfed
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Never mind, I reboot the server again and this time the drive is showing

So it's confirmed, 960 pro NVME drives do work fine out of the box on esx 6.5

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rolfed
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If anyone is interested this was the in VM disk performance using the new virtual NVMe controller

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user9922
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...but is the 960 Pro reliable in ESX 6.5
In this thread a user gets his datastore corrupted when using 960 Provirten.net...
http://www.virten.net/2017/03/vmware-homeserver-esxi-on-7th-gen-intel-nuc-kaby-lake/

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I can confirm Data Corruption with a NUC6i5 and Samsung 960Pro 1TB using ESXi 6.0U3.

It shows fine and seems to be running smooth - but then slowly corrupts the data on the virtual drives.

Maybe it's just a NUC Problem - but at the moment I would not recommend using a 960Pro in a productive environment!

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user9922
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But is it a good idea to attach a disk directly to you ESX in the first place?
In my experience if a direct connected disk dies, the whole ESX box freezes incl. all VMs!!!

Not only those which are located on the disk, but all and everything.
Or have I just been unlucky when that happened to me?
It seem the only proper way to attach storage to ESX is by a RAID controller or SAN/NAS, it is simply not optimized or prepared for it.

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