I use a Supermicro X10SRL-F motherboard with ESXi (vcenter VMUG etc)
I wanted to upgrade my old 64GB SATADOMS with a pair of 128GB SATADOMs in the powered yellow SATA sockets so created a mirrored raid array in the Intel RAID utility. When ESXi boots the drives dont appear as a RAID'ed pair but still as two single drives, even though the Intel RAID tool confirmed they are RAID pairs.
I actually realized something was wrong when I split the original 64GB and one drive is essentially blank, the other has all the VMs on etc.
Heres what Im presented with when creating a new storage volume is ESXi - see the two 128Gb drives, Im pretty sure they should appear as a unified and single drive.
I wanted to upgrade my old 64GB SATADOMS with a pair of 128GB SATADOMs in the powered yellow SATA sockets so created a mirrored raid array in the Intel RAID utility. When ESXi boots the drives dont appear as a RAID'ed pair but still as two single drives, even though the Intel RAID tool confirmed they are RAID pairs.
I actually realized something was wrong when I split the original 64GB and one drive is essentially blank, the other has all the VMs on etc.
Heres what Im presented with when creating a new storage volume is ESXi - see the two 128Gb drives, Im pretty sure they should appear as a unified and single drive.