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PE T320 ESXi 6.5 Dell ISO - How to Create Datastore on local H330 RAID5 VD?
PE T320 with integrated SD card, H330 PERC RAID controller, 3 SATA 1TB drives all updated to current firmware. Created a RAID5 VD using 3 PD on the H330.
Booted from Dell ESXi 6.5 ISO, installed ESXi on mirrored SD cards. During install, detects both SD card and H330 RAID5 volume. Installed ESXi onto the mirrored SD cards. Restart and loads ESXi from the SD card.
Running free ESXi license. Using provided Navigator (web console to ESXi host) attempting to create a new VMFS Datastore on the H330 RAID, but no unclaimed storage devices are available in the wizard.
How do confirm ESXi can detect the H330 storage?
To confirm hardware functional, installed Windows server onto the H330 VD, it boots up, so I think there is a missing ESXi driver in the Dell custom ESXi ISO?
geoperkins
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March 4th, 2017 20:00
I found my own answer. I downloaded the vCenter Client for ESXi 6.5 and used the 'thick' client to connect to the ESX host where I was able to detect the H330 VD storage to create a Datastore. (Apparently the native web server that comes with ESXi 6.5 is not sophisticated enough to do this.)
Francis - ATM
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June 22nd, 2020 06:00
I would like to use the h330 controller on the PET320, could pass the part number of the cable so that I can make a purchase, Thanks
Dell-DylanJ
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June 22nd, 2020 08:00
The part number for the SAS cable the H330 uses is P9VFY. That having been said, the H330 is a 13th generation RAID controller, but the server is a 12th generation server. Installing this controller isn't supported, and I'd recommend against it. The H310 is the 12th generation equivalent of the H330 and what I'd recommend. Let me know if there's anything else I can do.