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July 6th, 2019 02:00

esxi can't detect hard disk

I downloaded esxi iso image from your website, burn it on usb using rufus, boot it... every thing goes well until i must should the drive to install on, it can't detect my 1TB hdd
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    Dell-DylanJ

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    Posted July 29th, 2019 07:00

    Have you created a RAID volume for the drive? With it being a standalone disk, you would need a single drive RAID 0 for the controller to put the drive online.

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    Posted July 8th, 2019 07:00

    Hello,

    What model server is this? What PERC is contained within? Is the drive connected to the PERC? If so, is it a RAID member, or not? What version of ESXi are you trying to install?

    If you can share the answers to these questions, the community will be much better equipped to answer your question.

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    Posted July 29th, 2019 04:00

    It is a PowerEdge T630 with a Dell PERC H730 Controller. I have only one drive in the server which is my target drive, the drive appears in the bios, but in the esxi installation it doesn't show up. I am installing "VMware ESXi 6.5 U3" downloaded from dell website following these steps here.

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    Posted August 10th, 2019 05:00

    Creating a RAID 0 actually worked !!! Thanks for your support. (Y)
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    Posted June 30th, 2020 08:00

    I am having this exact same problem however I cannot create a RAID 0 with only one disk. How do I create a RAID0 with only one disk when RAID requires more than one disk?

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    Posted June 30th, 2020 11:00

    What tool are you using to try to create the volume? What do you see when you go to create the volume, and what controller are you working with? Creating a single drive RAID 0 would only require selecting a single disk from the presented disks and proceeding to create the volume.

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    Posted January 23rd, 2021 16:00

    Hi, i am facing the same issue. Would you please let me know how to make Raid 0 on a single SAS drive? i am runing Poweredge r815 trying to instal Esxi 7 on it but Hard drive not detected from ESXI!! (I have one 1 hard 600GB SAS)

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    Posted January 24th, 2021 07:00

    Which storage controller you have on the server? If you have a raid controller like H700 you can create a RAID 0  using PERC BIOS Configuration Utility during boot. Refer "Creating Virtual Disks" section on page 88 of below link for more details. 

    https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_dell_adapters/poweredge-rc-h700_user%27s%20guide_en-us.pdf  

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    Posted March 2nd, 2021 09:00

    Tried this on a PowerEdge R710 with the Dell iso of ESXi 7. Used the server config to setup a RAID 0 on a single drive and used the remaining drives to build a RAID 5. Initialized the volumes. Still no luck. The only drive that shows up is the USB stick I have the ISO installed on. Is there a trick to this I am missing? 

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    Posted March 2nd, 2021 10:00

    Hello,

     

    The latest ESXi version supported by the R710 is 6.0. I suspect there is likely a driver issue for the storage controller.

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