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VMWare ESXi 6.5 does not detect RAID 6 virtual disk on Dell PowerEdge R740
I tried to install ESXi on a brand new Dell PE R740, but during the installation it does not see my virtual disk. Before installing VMWare, I first created a RAID6 vdisk and did a fast initialisation. When I boot from the VMWare installer on an USB drive, it only shows the USB drive as an option to install to. I have also tried to install it from a virtual disk image using the Dell LifeCycle Controller software (which loads drivers specific for the OS installation), but same result here. Any ideas?
BTW: I am using the Dell ISO from location: link http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=NF6XJ
DELL-Josh Cr
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September 6th, 2017 15:00
Hi,
It doesn’t look like the version you linked supports the R740. Try this one
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tdnooij
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September 6th, 2017 15:00
Thanks! This was the problem.
Thierry86
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January 25th, 2018 07:00
Hello,
I have the same problem, i don't detect with PERC H740P RAID with ESXI 6.5, do you have solution ?
Best regards
John the Great
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February 25th, 2019 11:00
Is there a new link? I am having the same problem. Do I need to install something later than VMware 6.5?
Thanks,
Dell-DylanJ
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February 26th, 2019 08:00
This is the latest 6.5 U2 build we have released. There is also a 6.7 build, but 6.5 should work. Is this what you are using?
https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER05330276M/1/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0.update02-10719125.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A07.iso
kalsshah
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May 7th, 2020 13:00
I am having similar problem.
trying to install ESXi 7.0 on PowerEdge r610 series server. During the ESXi installation process, when it comes to a point to select the destination drive - I can't see the raid array configured on the server.
please help. Thanks.
Keval