Getting VMWare ESXi 5.0.0 with RAID using the Intel X79 chipset to work
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I have bought a new server where I use the motherboard
ASUS P9X79 WS X79 S-2011 ATX. It will be used for virtualization, preferably using VMware vSphere Hypervisor™ (ESXi) if I can get the RAID on my motherboard working with VMWare (it does not detect it).
The motherboard has the Intel® X79 chipset, which for RAID controller means vendor ID 8086 (Intel) and model ID 2826.
When I boot the ESXi 5.0.0 installation media from my flash drive I can not see drives in the RAID5 set I created.
Questions:
Is there a VIB file for the RAID controller I can use?
I have found one article at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-033313.htm on getting RAID to work with some Intel controllers, it lists 9 integrated RAID modules it is comptabile with. However, there is no mention of the X79 chipset.