I'm building an ESX with Supermicro X9SCM-F, Xeon, ECC.
I have IBM Serveraid M5210 and plan to reuse WD Gold 4TB drives. Serveraid came in sealed bag and has no memory and battery modules. I plan to just use RAID 1 arrays with 2 drives for data stores.
I bought the card since it has good features and is supported by both ESX and FreeNAS
I've had problems with ESX 6.7 see drives:
After assembling motherboard I initially installed Centos 8 which saw controller and random 500GB drive attached to controller
When I installed ESX 6.7 U3 it would not see the card. I searched and installed driver which resulted in magenta screen PF Exception
When I tried controller in 2016 server it would not start - I assume it's because non-IBM motherboard
I updated firmware using Centos to IBM firmware v24.21.0-0126 from April 2020. I then tried different drivers (for FW 24.21.0-0067) which again resulted in violet screen.
Should I flash this to AVAGO/LSI firmware?
If so which?
Also there was no prompt to create arrays - I guess this integrates with IBM server BIOS.
Any help appreciated.
I have IBM Serveraid M5210 and plan to reuse WD Gold 4TB drives. Serveraid came in sealed bag and has no memory and battery modules. I plan to just use RAID 1 arrays with 2 drives for data stores.
I bought the card since it has good features and is supported by both ESX and FreeNAS
I've had problems with ESX 6.7 see drives:
After assembling motherboard I initially installed Centos 8 which saw controller and random 500GB drive attached to controller
When I installed ESX 6.7 U3 it would not see the card. I searched and installed driver which resulted in magenta screen PF Exception
When I tried controller in 2016 server it would not start - I assume it's because non-IBM motherboard
I updated firmware using Centos to IBM firmware v24.21.0-0126 from April 2020. I then tried different drivers (for FW 24.21.0-0067) which again resulted in violet screen.
Should I flash this to AVAGO/LSI firmware?
If so which?
Also there was no prompt to create arrays - I guess this integrates with IBM server BIOS.
Any help appreciated.