...the more complicated it becomes. Yes, again I have to say that ASUS owned another few hours of mine and only result I achieved is another support case created. How cool is that?
A few days back I finally received a pair of brand new, undamaged hard drives. I even made a picture of them to emphasize this crucial moment in my life. This time they are spinning well, no excess noise or vibration... And honestly, that's all I can say about them right now, because it seems that my LSI MegaRAID on my ASUS Board is not functioning properly...
So today I wanted to pass-through the RAID controller to ESXi host and then having real hardware access to the controller itself. Having all this capabilities incl. SMART etc then create software RAID-1 under Linux vMachine. Yup, dumb idea. Since I already have my SSD connected to this controller, I cannot pass it through to VM. Looks like I didn't think over it enough.
Looking for work-around? Use on-board LSI MegaRAID controller to have RAID-1 things handled by the hardware in the background and then create 4TB virtual disk. Probably not a best available option ever, but still seems to be feasible. Okay, reboot, reconfiguration of raid BIOS configuration, init of array, here we go! Well... ESXi still see two drives. How weird is that?!
After a little bit of reserach I found out some information about not having raid enabled prior to installation of ESXi and missing modules and things like that. Well, drowning man will clutch at a straw, so I went through all the options including changing jumper on motherboard to switch to Intel Raid solution and then going back, disabling and enabling RAID in BIOS again... no luck. I've even gone ahead and created RAID configuration for disk which are not meant to work in RAID!
No luck, my ESXi still see Intel Patsburg controller. Instead of LSI MegaRAID.
Well, like I've said. Looks like I'm gonna keep ASUS guys busy for a quite bit of time.
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