Dell PERC2 (megaraid2)

[gordan]

Is there a way to persuade the ESXi installer to install onto an array

on Dell PERC2? I can see that it loads the right driver (megaraid2),

but then it complains that it couldn't find any supported devices to

install on. Surely if it's good enough for the Linux kernel it's

loading, it should be able to use it, no?

Yes, I know the hardware is woefully out of date, but it's the only

machine I have kicking about at the moment and I figured it'd be good

enough to take ESXi for a test drive.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

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Dave Mishchenko

VMware Communities User Moderator

If the PERC2 uses the same driver as the PERC3 then you might get ESXi to use it. Can you post the PCI if for it?

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/find_PCI_ID.php

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Hardware_support.php

http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/customize_oem_tgz.php

[gordan]

00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID 428 Ultra RAID Controller (rev 04)

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-

Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11

Region 0: I/O ports at e800 size=128

Expansion ROM at 88020000 disabled size=16K

Oddly, I can see megaraid2 being listed, and MegaRAID 428 being listed under it. But the installer seems to claim it couldn't find any supported storage devices, even though it loads the megaraid2 driver.

[relegated]

Did you ever get this working and what version of ESXi were you using? I have a AAC-364-DELL2 (PERC2) sitting on my desk that I would like to use.

[DSTAVERT]

I would head on over to the http://vm-help.com website.