is it software raid or hardware raid on Dell T5500 Precision Workstation ?

May 14, 2016
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Hi,

Recently i purchased a Dell T5500 Precision Workstation from ebay. While adding 2 (250gb) Hitachi hdds and creating raid 1 volume and trying to install VMware ESXI 6.5. It is showing 2 drives rather than 1 raid volume.

So my query is is it software raid or hardware raid onboard Dell T5500 Precision Workstation ?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Solution
Its software RAID, you are using the onboard Intel RAID which is a software based solution, VMware will not see that as a single volume in RAID 1, you will nee a real RAID controller.