I upgraded to 6.5 on my whitebox hypervisor system (Intel Sandy Bridge), I had been running a Marvel HBA storage adapter on community drivers, but looked forward to the return of native AHCI drivers in the form of vmw_ahci.
Alas, it wasn't to be, after a very short time I found VMs were getting I/O errors and after a bit longer I was in a position of having to recover vmdks from backup due to corruption.
It seems that people suffer from performance problems with this driver and VM's freezing, I don't think anybody has actually gone into the detail of why they're freezing. I/O errors which can very easily lead to corruption of the file system. I bought a Kaby Lake board to see if that worked any better, but the same problem was there with the driver and I can't disable vmw_ahci as Kaby Lake doesn't seem to have any other drivers yet - waste of £170!.
Has anybody been successful with unlisted AHCI controllers on 6.5?
Does anybody reckon VMware will do anything about this, or is 6.5 a no-go for me? I think I might blow away the install and go to 6.0.
