Trying to consolidate certain aspects of my setup, part of this process involves moving my main ZFS storage array into the main ESXi box. Due to there being no support for ZFS in ESXi, I figured I'd just pass through the M1015 card through to an Ubuntu Server 14.04 VM and I'd be done.
Unfortunately it seems that Ubuntu isn't detecting any of the disks.
System spec:
- Supermicro X9SRL
- Xeon 1620v2
- 112GB RAM
- M1015 - flashed to IT mode (configured for passthrough)
- Chenbro CK23601 connected to M1015 with single cable
- 12x Hitachi 5K3000 - all connected to Chenbro expander
- OS: ESXi 6.0.0
Even though during boot the HBA is detecting all the disks fine, I wanted to eliminate any potential hardware issues so I dropped in a spare drive and installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 to it, did not configure any additional drivers and checked the list of available drives, all 12 were present.
Here is ESXi configured
PCI device configured on the VM
Within the Ubuntu VM, lspci shows the controller
Can't see anything significant in dmesg ([ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cg - Pastebin.com)
Disk output
Anyone got any suggestions on what I could possibly investigate next? I'm a little stuck!
Unfortunately it seems that Ubuntu isn't detecting any of the disks.
System spec:
- Supermicro X9SRL
- Xeon 1620v2
- 112GB RAM
- M1015 - flashed to IT mode (configured for passthrough)
- Chenbro CK23601 connected to M1015 with single cable
- 12x Hitachi 5K3000 - all connected to Chenbro expander
- OS: ESXi 6.0.0
Even though during boot the HBA is detecting all the disks fine, I wanted to eliminate any potential hardware issues so I dropped in a spare drive and installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 to it, did not configure any additional drivers and checked the list of available drives, all 12 were present.
Here is ESXi configured
PCI device configured on the VM
Within the Ubuntu VM, lspci shows the controller
Code:
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:07.7 System peripheral: VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (rev 10)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
00:11.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI bridge (rev 02)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:15.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:16.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:17.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.1 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.2 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.3 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.4 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.5 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.6 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
00:18.7 PCI bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01)
03:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: VMware PVSCSI SCSI Controller (rev 02)
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: VMware VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
13:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)
Disk output
Code:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 163840 cylinders, total 20971520 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00038f13
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 20971519 10484736 83 Linux