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JarryG
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You need 2 software-packages:

1. driver: this should be included in ESXi (at least some older version), if controller is listed as supported

2. smis-provider: so that you could see status of your arrays/disks on health-page (can be installed additionally)

(there also might be some management-software for ESXi)

I recommend you check in advance if Adaptec has both driver and smis! Some time ago I found some adaptec-controller on HCL (iirc, it was of 5xxx series), so I ordered it. Installed ESXi, VMs, etc., and at the very end I found there was no smis-provider. I contacted Adaptec and they confirmed the situation: there is driver for ESXi, but no smis-provider, and thus no way of monitoring its health. What is such a raid-controller good for? And yet it was listed on VMware HCL...

_____________________________________________ If you found my answer useful please do *not* mark it as "correct" or "helpful". It is hard to pretend being noob with all those points! :winking_face:
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