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I'm almost glad to see I'm not the only one having issues with the Supermicro X7DVL-E on-board disk controller. I've encountered all of the problems you've mentioned and some even wierder feces after enabling AHCI support within the BIOS. As far as RAID support within ESXi, I've played with ESXi on several different "whitebox" platforms including several different SuperMicro mother boards and have not successfully gotten the ESXi installer to recognize hardware raid support on any of them. After reading the entries you and others have posted my next step as far as the SuperMicro X7DVL-E motherboard is concerned will be to disable the on-board disk controller and try a couple of different disk controllers I currently have access too. What has become painfully clear is VMware is incredibly finicky and picky about the hardware on which it runs. I'll keep you posted on my results as I move forward.
But let's be honest with each other "we've gotten what we paid for...". The truth is we won't put up with this level of incompatibility if the product were not free. At this point the real question is how much longer can I continue to waste time on a system that is so poorly documented and incredibly finicky about it's hardware configuration. There may not be a price tag associated with the FREE download of ESXi, however, because of the time being wasted on systems incompatibilities and incredibly bad documentation. The total cost of ownership associated with the FREE ESXi hypervisor is making Server 2008 and Hyper-V appear to be a much more cost effective solution after all.
More Later,
HCronin