I'm in the process of trying to swap the RAID controller on my X11-SCA-F based home server from an older LSI card to a Dell PERC H730 that I just received. This is being done ahead of an ESXi 6.7->7.0 upgrade I'm going to need to do for some new stuff I am going to be testing out.
The system boots, but I never get a POST screen that gives me the option of entering the RAID controller's configuration so that I can import my volumes (I plan on importing my existing RAID-1 set to the new controller if possible).
Instead the system just boots ESXi 6.7 from USB and once ESXi is up and running if I log into it I can see that the PERC H730 card is discovered as ESXi shows it as a storage adapter.
Is there something I'm missing? Can the PERC only be configured from a Dell server running iDRAC?
Thanks.
The system boots, but I never get a POST screen that gives me the option of entering the RAID controller's configuration so that I can import my volumes (I plan on importing my existing RAID-1 set to the new controller if possible).
Instead the system just boots ESXi 6.7 from USB and once ESXi is up and running if I log into it I can see that the PERC H730 card is discovered as ESXi shows it as a storage adapter.
Is there something I'm missing? Can the PERC only be configured from a Dell server running iDRAC?
Thanks.