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You need to disable the RAID controller and get a RAID controller that is on the HCL. &nbsp; Get a decent one, especially one with onboard battery for write cache for both performance and prevention of data loss in event of power and sometimes disk drive loss in middle of I/O.
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You need to disable the RAID controller and get a RAID controller that is on the HCL.   Get a decent one, especially one with onboard battery for write cache for both performance and prevention of data loss in event of power and sometimes disk drive loss in middle of I/O.

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If you installed ESXi 4.1, and it doesn detect your RAID controller, it's likely it's not supported.<br />
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Please check out the Hardware Compatbiliy List for supported RAID controllers.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl</a><br />
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RAID controllers from HP Smart Array, Dell PERC 5/i and 6, and Adaptec RAID controllers are supported.<br />
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you may also find some help on the White List HCL <br />
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<a href="http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage" rel="ugc">http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage</a><br />
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If you installed ESXi 4.1, and it doesn detect your RAID controller, it's likely it's not supported.

Please check out the Hardware Compatbiliy List for supported RAID controllers.

http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl [http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl]

RAID controllers from HP Smart Array, Dell PERC 5/i and 6, and Adaptec RAID controllers are supported.

you may also find some help on the White List HCL

http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage [http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php#Storage]



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Hi.<br />
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We test ESXi4.1. It works on most our servers. But.<br />
Now, we are trying to setup S5000PAL intel server platform with ESXi4.1<br />
Does embedded RAID controller supported by ESXi?<br />
How to setup it?
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Hi.

We test ESXi4.1. It works on most our servers. But.
Now, we are trying to setup S5000PAL intel server platform with ESXi4.1
Does embedded RAID controller supported by ESXi?
How to setup it?

Intel S5000PAL motherboard embedded RAID controller with ESXi4.1

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