Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
5 Posts
0
8896
March 2nd, 2017 20:00
Dell PowerEdge R730 with PERC H730 Controller ESXi 6.5 installation
Hi Everyone,
I recently bought the Dell PowerEdge R730 with H730 PERC Controller. Below are the steps I did to install esxi 6.5:
1- RAID configuration
2- Create my Virtual Disk (RAID#5) with iDRAC
3- Install ESXi 6.5 with this image: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-4564106.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso
Everything seems to work correctly except the RAID drive, I'm not able to see it to install esxi into virtual on RAID.
I tried to installed by using ESXi 6.0 (with the image VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso) and with this OS) and it seems that working (RAID on on remote drive not local drive).
There are any issue with ESXi 6.5 DELL custom image?
Thank you !
DELL-Josh Cr
Moderator
•
9.6K Posts
•
42.7K Points
0
March 3rd, 2017 09:00
Hi,
Are the drives 4k sector drives?
songphonj
5 Posts
0
March 4th, 2017 20:00
hi,
How we confirm sector size on our drives?
Aws : after checked physical drives, those drive chow 4kn
Can you change to 512e by RAID controller (PERC H730) feature?
DELL-Josh Cr
Moderator
•
9.6K Posts
•
42.7K Points
0
March 6th, 2017 09:00
512e support has not been added to our 6.5 image yet, most likely the next release with 4k sector support later this year.
songphonj
5 Posts
0
March 6th, 2017 18:00
Hi,
So, how I install esxi 6.5 on DELL R730 with 4kn drives and PERC H730 on now?
I need to wait until vmware release 4k sector support ?
DELL-Josh Cr
Moderator
•
9.6K Posts
•
42.7K Points
0
March 7th, 2017 06:00
Install ESXi 6.0, or use native 512 sector drives.
songphonj
5 Posts
0
March 7th, 2017 18:00
Sorry let me make sure something.
Can we use ESXi 6.0 with 4kn drives?
Wheni try to used DELL image (ESXi5.5 - 6.5) i still can't install any more.
DELL-Josh Cr
Moderator
•
9.6K Posts
•
42.7K Points
0
March 8th, 2017 08:00
No, it still isn’t validated, I just thought you had said it worked on 6.0.
songphonj
5 Posts
0
March 8th, 2017 17:00
Hi,
Oh maybe I give some wrong information,
After talked with DELL Thailand, they will process to change driver to 512e or 512n to me.
Thanks for your suggestion :)