Greetings;
I am trying to get vSphere 6.5 to recognize 4x4TB Seagate 12Gb/s SAS drives in a Dell R420. I have a H330 controller installed and the proper cable (SFF-8644 / SFF-8087) between the card and backplane.
Upon setup the RAID configuration goes smoothly, with the controller recognized and no issues setting up the 4 drives in RAID 5. ESXi comes up properly and vCenter registers the host and recognizes the H330 as vmhba2, but does not present the virtual disk for configuration as datastore.
VMware has very little documentation re: 4K native drives and offers up this document which says 4KN is not supported but 512e is, but there's no mention of how to configure the system as 512e. Going deeper suggests that only VSAN may be supported but I am unsure, as other sources suggest it is at least possible with a single disk.
Can I be pointed in the right direction please... Either I'm missing something simple or have yet to hit upon the magic combination. Perhaps RAID is not supported and I need to configure the H330 differently? There is no option for 512e that I can find.
Thank you.
Dell R420, 6-c E5-2420, 48GB, H330 (H710 removed), vSphere 6.5 with vcsa and 2 other hosts online.
I am trying to get vSphere 6.5 to recognize 4x4TB Seagate 12Gb/s SAS drives in a Dell R420. I have a H330 controller installed and the proper cable (SFF-8644 / SFF-8087) between the card and backplane.
Upon setup the RAID configuration goes smoothly, with the controller recognized and no issues setting up the 4 drives in RAID 5. ESXi comes up properly and vCenter registers the host and recognizes the H330 as vmhba2, but does not present the virtual disk for configuration as datastore.
VMware has very little documentation re: 4K native drives and offers up this document which says 4KN is not supported but 512e is, but there's no mention of how to configure the system as 512e. Going deeper suggests that only VSAN may be supported but I am unsure, as other sources suggest it is at least possible with a single disk.
Can I be pointed in the right direction please... Either I'm missing something simple or have yet to hit upon the magic combination. Perhaps RAID is not supported and I need to configure the H330 differently? There is no option for 512e that I can find.
Thank you.
Dell R420, 6-c E5-2420, 48GB, H330 (H710 removed), vSphere 6.5 with vcsa and 2 other hosts online.