VMware and Fake RAID onboard

[xcfman]

I'm using vSphere 5, installed on the following hardwares:

Mainboard: X8DTi-F

CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 2.4GHz

RAM: 48GB

RAID:

Fake RAID (onboard - Intel ICH 9-10 or Adaptec HostRAID or LSI MegaRAID) for RAID-1

Adaptec 5405 for RAID-10

HDD:

2x74GB WD or 2x250GB WD RE4 (as RAID-1)

4x2TB WD RE4 (as RAID-10 for local storage)

NIC:

2 x onboard (bonding as management interface)

2 x External NIC dual-port for traffic

But when I'm installing vSphere, the installer gives me the choice of either 250GB HDD, not whole RAID-1. When finished, my RAID-1 is broken -> so VMware does not support FakeRAID ??? Has any ways to solve this problem ?

Could someone please tell me why VMware does not support Fake RAID/onboard RAID for Intel ICH 9/10, Adaptec HostRAID and LSI MegaRAID ??? Because I believe that if VMware support for those FakeRAID/onboard RAID could give more flexible oppotunities of virtualization and storage.

[rickardnobel]

You will need a hardware RAID controller for this to work. The "fake" RAID works by the operating system having a driver to handle the RAID access and VMware is most likely not interested to include this kind of consumer level driver into the vmkernel driver base.