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Mine shows this:

[root@intelserver:~] esxcfg-scsidevs -a

vmhba38 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba38                            (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba39 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba39                            (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba0  ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba0                             (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba1  lsi_mr3           link-n/a  sas.5001e67ca647e000                    (0000:0a:00.0) LSI MegaRAID SAS Fury Controller

vmhba2  ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba2                             (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba40 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba40                            (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba41 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba41                            (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba34 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba34                            (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba35 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba35                            (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba36 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba36                            (0000:00:11.4) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

vmhba37 ahci              link-n/a  sata.vmhba37                            (0000:00:1f.2) Intel Corporation Wellsburg AHCI Controller

[root@intelserver:~] vmkload_mod -s lsi_mr3

vmkload_mod module information

input file: /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/lsi_mr3

Version: 6.605.08.00-6vmw.600.0.0.2494585

Build Type: release

License: GPLv2

Required name-spaces:

  com.vmware.vmkapi#v2_3_0_0

Parameters:

  mfiDumpFailedCmd: int

    Hex dump of failed command in driver log

  max_sectors: int

    Maximum number of sectors per IO command

[root@intelserver:~]


I didn't do anything special when I installed ESXi.  That's just the driver that was chosen.  Is there someplace I can lookup exactly what the driver is supposed to be for?  The controller is an LSI* SAS3008 SAS 12G . 

Edit:

More info on the controller:

[root@intelserver:~] esxcfg-scsidevs -l

naa.6001e67ca647e0001cd1cdb8275eb90e

   Device Type: Direct-Access

   Size: 4878040 MB

   Display Name: Intel Serial Attached SCSI Disk (naa.6001e67ca647e0001cd1cdb8275eb90e)

   Multipath Plugin: NMP

   Console Device: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6001e67ca647e0001cd1cdb8275eb90e

   Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.6001e67ca647e0001cd1cdb8275eb90e

   Vendor: Intel     Model: RS3YC             Revis: 4.26

   SCSI Level: 5  Is Pseudo: false Status: degraded

   Is RDM Capable: true  Is Removable: false

   Is Local: false Is SSD: true

   Other Names:

      vml.02000000006001e67ca647e0001cd1cdb8275eb90e525333594320

   VAAI Status: unsupported

[root@intelserver:~]


EDIT #2


After more searching and keying in the device parameters I did find this device in the hardware compatibility list, but it lists different drivers than the one that was picked:

VMware Compatibility Guide: I/O Device Search

However, I was unable to lookup the firmware version of the controller, or at least wasn't able to get ESXi to show that, without rebooting the server and bringing up the RAID Bios screen, so I'm not 100% sure of that part, but for ESXi6 it only listed one firmware version and I did apply the latest BIOS and RAID firmware from Intel when I built this server about 60 days ago.   If I install one of these drivers will it just be picked up, or do I need to do something to force the driver to be used with the controller?

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