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ESXI 5.5.0 installation not detecting hard drives

Hello,

I am trying to install ESXI on my brand new build. I got my system booting off an USB drive with ESXI 5.5.0 in it. When it is time to decide where to install the ESXI, it does not detect any of the internal drives, only the USB drives.

These are some of the parts of my build:

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

ASUS ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboards MAXIMUS VI FORMULA

OCZ Vertex 460 480GB SSD - 2.5", 7MM, SATA III - VTX460-25SAT3-480G

Western Digital Red 6 TB NAS Hard Drive 1 to 8-Bay 3.5-inch SATA 6, IntelliPower, 64MB Cache Internal Bare or OEM Drives WD60EFRX

So far I have tried partitioning these disks with NTFS and FAT32, but no luck.

Do I need to add a driver to my ESXI ISO or something similar? Any help would be MUUUCH appreciated.

Cheers!

Jorge

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Welcome to the community,

as you point out you have to inject those drivers to the ESXi 5.5 installation  ISO...

Asus MAXIMUS VI FORMULA MOBO is using ASMedia® ASM1061 controller so:

check these sources:

TinkerTry IT @ home | Use ESXi-Customizer GUI to inject multiple driver VIBs into your ESXi installe...

TinkerTry IT @ home | First look at VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 1, with added drivers for Realtek NIC, AS...

also see:

VMware KB: Devices deprecated and unsupported in ESXi 5.5

For hardware compatibility difficulties in lab/home environment as workaround you can also run ESXi as nested in VMware Workstation instead of deploying it directly to your laptop hardware, for more details look here:

VMware KB: Support for running ESXi/ESX as a nested virtualization solution

_________________________________________________________________________________________ If you found this or any other answer helpful, please consider to award points. (use Correct or Helpful buttons) Regards, P.

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vNEX
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Welcome to the community,

as you point out you have to inject those drivers to the ESXi 5.5 installation  ISO...

Asus MAXIMUS VI FORMULA MOBO is using ASMedia® ASM1061 controller so:

check these sources:

TinkerTry IT @ home | Use ESXi-Customizer GUI to inject multiple driver VIBs into your ESXi installe...

TinkerTry IT @ home | First look at VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 1, with added drivers for Realtek NIC, AS...

also see:

VMware KB: Devices deprecated and unsupported in ESXi 5.5

For hardware compatibility difficulties in lab/home environment as workaround you can also run ESXi as nested in VMware Workstation instead of deploying it directly to your laptop hardware, for more details look here:

VMware KB: Support for running ESXi/ESX as a nested virtualization solution

_________________________________________________________________________________________ If you found this or any other answer helpful, please consider to award points. (use Correct or Helpful buttons) Regards, P.
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BOOM! Thank you sooo much!!!

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