Solution: Install steps. 1) Configure RAID using the RAID BIOS utility during boot up. 2) Install ESXi. Why has ESXi 5.0 not used the software RAID configuration on my test server? I am now testing installing ESXi 5.0 on this server to run some VMs. I've successfully installed ESXi, and imported a VM fine, but it's showing 2 x 250 GB disks available as datastores. However they should be appearing as one volume. When I boot the. I had to update the network adapter and the raid controller. Installing drivers on ESXi 5.5. Esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/55a47a7f.

Software RAID underneath ESXi datastore. Install ESXi, enable passthrough. Therefore it is not about software RAID on ESXi, but a.

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I recently had to install VMware ESXi 6.0 on a server sporting an Areca RAID controller. Since Areca supplies VMware drivers on their site, and this is a well-established name-brand controller, you may expect it to be easy to get it working. It isn’t exactly easy, since VMware doesn’t natively support this controller, but I did get it working, and since this same basic procedure could be adopted for other models/brands/situations, I wanted to post how I did it, since I couldn’t find anyone else on the internet at the time who had useful instructions for someone who hadn’t done it before (or with this version of VMware). Ok, first of all, we may be more than 15 years into the 21 st century, but you wouldn’t know it when you’re trying to install a driver in VMware’s latest 6.0 version of ESXi, which hasn’t even been out that long. For some reason, if you have a 3 rd party driver to install that doesn’t come natively in VMware, it all needs to be done using arcane command line syntax with multiple 3 rd party programs. Why they don’t just have a place in the GUI to click on that allows you to easily install drivers in VMware, I don’t know.

To make matters worse, you can’t even get to the GUI if you haven’t installed VMware yet, so that’s the first problem you’ll run into if you try to install it onto drives attached to your new RAID controller. (This particular model was the Areca ARC-1214-4i.) Sure, you can download drivers from Areca’s, but it doesn’t do you much good when the VMware installation screens never once offer you a chance to install a 3 rd party driver (like Microsoft has done since the NT4 days when you could always hit F6 during installation, and then give it a floppy disk, etc.).

No, instead, the way they recommend you do it (assuming you’re only running a few physical VMware servers) is to install it to a USB flash drive, and THEN once its installed, you can install the RAID controller drivers. (And I do mean USB flash drive – I tried installing it to an external USB HDD first, and it wouldn’t see it. When I plugged in a little 2GB USB key though, it came right up!) So yes, you’ll install VMware to a USB flash drive, and THAT will be your boot drive forevermore, so make sure it’s a drive you don’t want back ever again!;) Ok, so now you’ve installed VMware to your USB key and booted it up, and it’s working fine, but when you connect from the vSphere Client, it tells you there are no datastores defined, and it asks if you’d like to add one. But, when you try to go ahead and create a datastore as it suggests, it gives you NO WAY to add a new controller/drivers to create the datastore on! So here’s what you do: First, go to the server’s physical console/monitor, and go into Troubleshooting, and enable ESXi Shell and SSH.