Compatible: IO Device 'MegaRAID SAS GEN2 Controller (PCIID:1000:79:1000:9263)' is compatible for ESX 6.7. Vmhba1 - 0000:01:00.0: IO Device 'MegaRAID SAS GEN2 Controller' from Avago (LSI / Symbios Logic)
ESXI 6.5 RAID CARD INSTALL
They also list the workarounds for this as either install to a non SD/USB.There are various CLI and GUI tools which can be used when an operating system is running, as well as RAID BIOS tools which can only be used when the operating system is not running. In the ongoing saga of SD-Card/USB-boot device support in ESXi, VMware has just published a new KB article named Persistent storage warnings when booting ESXi from SD-Card/USB devices (85615) outlining that from 7.0u3 (at the time of writing, not released yet) onward support for such boot devices is deprecated. Intel and LSI RAID cards provide tools for RAID system monitoring and configuration. Compatible: IO Device 'Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (PCIID:8086:1C02:8086:7270)' is compatible for ESX 6.7.0 RAID Monitoring and Configuration with an Intel or LSI RAID Card. Vmhba0 - 0000:00:1f.2: IO Device 'Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller' from Intel Corporation It complained about my 10G nics possibly not being supported in 6.7 (but they still work), but the storage both reported compatible (the datastore works, but no hardware monitoring). Strangely, I found a Fling for ESXi compatibility checking. Going from 6.5->6.7 just makes me look at the other hypervisor solutions in the future.Įdit: Just found an updated document () showing 6.5 U2 as being latest for LSI provider. Going to v7.0, I'd expect to drop legacy stuff. I really, really hate it when hardware and feature deprecation happens in a point release like this. So now I'll have to reinstall ESXi 6.5 to get around this issue. Unfortunately, when I discovered this and found the instructions to rollback to previous version, both bootbanks say they are 6.7 and cannot be downgraded or reverted. Search your raid card again, and see it probably says 6.7 supported. Search "LSIprovider" on the compatibility check page to see the 6.5 U2. Im simply attempting to reinstall a fresh copy using the. My raid card reports supporting 6.7, so you think all good, right? Nope, not if the LSI provider functionality is no longer supported. Do you have 2 flexflash card, and Raid-1 configured. Ive never had any issues with ESXi 6.5, but hadnt used this machine in a while, however I recently flashed to the latest firmware and installed entirely new RAM (24 x 16GB) and now its time to get things rolling again. Messed around with different versions of the SMIS and lsi provider files, but ultimately I believe the issue is that the LSI Provider support has ended at 6.5 U2. I just ran into this problem after upgrading from 6.5 to 6.7.