Hello,
I purchased an Asus Z9PE-D16 motherboard a year back or so when it was listed on the compatibility doc of VMWare for ESXi 4 or 5 at the time. I finally have the system built with a rocketraid 4320 from highpoint but when i load esxi 5.5 or 6.0 they do not find a local volume to install to. I have 4 disks in a raid 5 array that is initialized and is listed in BIOS as a boot device 4320.
Now, vmware tech support is telling me that Asus is not supported. In fact, when i look at the motherboard compatibilty tool, there are NO consumer server motherboard brands listed as being compatible. It only lists intel and acer and a few other commercial grade motherboards or servers.
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=server&productid=36713&deviceCategory=server&details=1&partner=3&releases=273&systemTypes=4&sockets=2&page=1&display_interval=500&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
Am I doing something wrong? Is there no consumer motherboard that I can purchase for ESXi?
Is it perhaps just my highpoint rocket raid card that is the issue and maybe that needs to be replaced? Highpoint tech support said it didnt support ESXi even though the 4320 card was listed as supported in esxi 4.1 on the vmware website, but is not listed for esxi 5 or 6.
Im at a loss and have all of this expensive hardware just sitting here, very depressed with the whole thing.
Should i try to sell what i have on ebay and get something completely different?
Thanks....
I purchased an Asus Z9PE-D16 motherboard a year back or so when it was listed on the compatibility doc of VMWare for ESXi 4 or 5 at the time. I finally have the system built with a rocketraid 4320 from highpoint but when i load esxi 5.5 or 6.0 they do not find a local volume to install to. I have 4 disks in a raid 5 array that is initialized and is listed in BIOS as a boot device 4320.
Now, vmware tech support is telling me that Asus is not supported. In fact, when i look at the motherboard compatibilty tool, there are NO consumer server motherboard brands listed as being compatible. It only lists intel and acer and a few other commercial grade motherboards or servers.
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=server&productid=36713&deviceCategory=server&details=1&partner=3&releases=273&systemTypes=4&sockets=2&page=1&display_interval=500&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
Am I doing something wrong? Is there no consumer motherboard that I can purchase for ESXi?
Is it perhaps just my highpoint rocket raid card that is the issue and maybe that needs to be replaced? Highpoint tech support said it didnt support ESXi even though the 4320 card was listed as supported in esxi 4.1 on the vmware website, but is not listed for esxi 5 or 6.
Im at a loss and have all of this expensive hardware just sitting here, very depressed with the whole thing.
Should i try to sell what i have on ebay and get something completely different?
Thanks....
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