esxi 4.0.0 with 3ware 9550sx sata, driver problems

xzibiz · ‎03-06-2012

Hi

I've been testing esxi for some time on som old gaming hw.

But now i got an supermicro server to play with. This server has an 3ware-9550sx raid controller.

I've googled for several day, tried many guides. But nothing helps me.

First I tried esxi 3.5, where i found an .iso file with 3w-9xxxx drivers installed. But didnt help.

Now I'm using esxi 4.0.0., where I found the driver within vmware's download center.

This was an .iso file too. I downloaded it over to the host, got the host in "maintenance mode" an execudet this command:

esxupdate --bundle=<name of bundled zip> update

After an reboot, everything was the same.

In simple I have this:

13c1:1005 0000:0000 storage 3w_9xxx.o

13c1:1004 0000:0000 storage 3w_9xxx.o

Where I think 1004 means that the raid controller is in pci nr 4, is this correct ?

My card is in PCI-X #2 and

lspci -v |grep -i 13c1 hive me:

Class 0104: 13c1:1003

So if I'm correct, I should replace 1004 with 1003 ? But after an reboot everything is the same again....

How can I get this work ??

Please someone

vGuy · ‎03-07-2012

I found couple of articles to get this controller to work with ESXi 4.0, can you see if these instructions are helpful:

There is also a call out recommendation to update to ESXi 4.0u1 (see point 5)...

xzibiz · ‎03-08-2012

I've tried everything I can think of.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, or I'm stupid :smileysilly:

I would be very happy if someone could fix an .iso file which included the drivers fro 3ware 9550SX. With an pci ID 1003

For VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5 or VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0.update1.