Good afternoon
I'm trying to install esxi 5.1 natively on a hp xw8400 workstation using the integrated sata raid mode as described here:
http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01330263/c01330263.pdf
I have installed two sata drives and created a raid 0 volume per the instructions above. I have installed Linux natively and it sees the raid 0 volume as expected, however if I install esxi natively it does not see the raid volume, instead it sees the individual drives.
My guess is that the vx-t is allowing esxi to 'bypass' the raid somehow and that I will need a 3rd party raid card for this to work.
Has anyone else been able to get the integrated sata raid to work with vmware esxi natively on a similar setup as expected? Or any other ideas?
Best,
Jim