Perc 6 pass through not showing up?

[QuiteSufficient]

Just trying to get my setup going for the first time...

I currently have:

Dell T110
Esxi 4.1
Xeon X3440
8gb memory
1 x Corsair 120gb SSD
Perc 6/ir
4 x Seagate 1tb in RAID 5

I am trying to host an Ubuntu VM on the Corsair 120, which works great. I have the Perc 6/i configured for pass-through, then I added the card as a PCI device to the Ubuntu VM, but it does not show up.

Is this most likely an ubuntu driver issue or pass through not working correctly?

 

[AMD_Gamer]

I would install ubuntu after you setup the passthrough device.

 

[lopoetve]

Why are you passing it through? Linux can get identical performance with VMFS or passthrough.

 

[QuiteSufficient]

I am trying to have this VM serve as a FOG server, without having a separate machine to act as a NAS. VMFS seems to limit maximum disk size to 256gb, which is pretty useless for storing images.

Have now tried both ubuntu and centos post setting up the passthrough, and neither is able to see it. sigh

 

[danswartz]

In ubuntu, what happens if you do 'lspci'? Does the perc show up?

 

[QuiteSufficient]

In ubuntu, what happens if you do 'lspci'? Does the perc show up?

VMWare PCI Express Root Port shows up about 20 times

Then the controller does show up

Shows up as LSI Megaraid 1078 - I got it used so from reading that suggests the bios was flashed at some point? Not sure, my first go with this card and with esxi and getting a raid card working in linux...all at once

 

[lopoetve]

I am trying to have this VM serve as a FOG server, without having a separate machine to act as a NAS. VMFS seems to limit maximum disk size to 256gb, which is pretty useless for storing images.

Have now tried both ubuntu and centos post setting up the passthrough, and neither is able to see it. sigh

Reformat with 8mb block size. Can do 2TB disks then.

 

[QuiteSufficient]

lopoetve thanks I am now using this route.

I finally fixed the problem before by booting with an ubuntu disk and formatting the disks ext4 outside of esxi (they then showed up), but I would rather not give the whole array to the 1 vm.