VMWare Esxi 6.5 sees my disks separately and not as RAID 1

[abelvh]

I have an HP Proloant DL160 Gen9 server and I have 3 disks, the 1 is of the SATA type and the other 2 are SSD. I have used RAID 1 for disks 2 and 3 (SSD), the disk array is configured with Smart Provisioning correctly (OK state), however in the Esxi vmware storage section the disks are shown independently. The image installed on this server is what HP recommends for this specific model. I would appreciate your help, thanks in advance

[IRIX201110141]

Tell us the name/type of the raid controller in your HPE server.

ESXi doesnt support Fake/Chipset RAIDs which needs a supportet OS driver.

Regards,
Joerg

[Shrikant_Gavhan]

Please check if the RAID controller your hardware has is supported.

VMware Compatibility Guide - System Search

[abelvh]

i hace this:

https://128.0.0.129/ui/#/host/storage/adapters/vmhba0

HPE|Dynamic Smart Array B140i RAID Controller

[daphnissov]

The scsi-hpdsa driver is needed to make this work. Show which drivers you have installed with esxcli software vib list. Paste the output.

[a_p_]

The Smart Array B140i RAID Controller is not supported. According to the HPE DL190 Gen9 Quickspecs, a supported controller for you server model would be the P440 SmartArray Controller.

André

[abelvh]

this is my output:

scsi-hpdsa                     5.5.0.66-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820      HPE        PartnerSupported  2019-07-15

[abelvh]

Dear André,

I appreciate your help, in the "storage controller" section I find on page 5 of the technical specifications this data:

[NOTE: B140i provides support for up to 8 SATA drives, data transmission speeds up to 6Gb / s and

supports RAID 0, 1 & 5.]

Which does not make me think that the driver in question is not compatible with 960GB 6GB SSD drives

I do not master the subject so I would appreciate it please can you specify your answer

[gregsn]

>>i hace this:https://128.0.0.129/ui/#/host/storage/adapters/vmhba0 HPE|Dynamic Smart Array B140i RAID Controller

From what I could find online (https://community.hpe.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/Raid-controller-S100i-vs-B140i/td-p/7032221​) the B140i is a software based RAID controller and will not work in ESXi as a controller-based RAID storage system (though it will present you with the individual disks as you have already discovered).

If you want RAID functionality at the controller level with ESXi, you'll need to source a hardware RAID controller which does not depend on an operating system driver to handle RAID functions.

The following are a couple examples of ESXi compatible hardware RAID controllers:

MegaRAID 9460-16i

Adaptec - Microsemi Adaptec SmartRAID 3162-8i