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| Benefits | |
| Ideal for 12Gb/s performance-hungry server and workstations platforms, without compromising proven Adaptec reliability | |
| Key Differentiators | |
| • Third generation ZMCP; AFM-700 • LP MD2 form factor for up to 16 native SAS/SATA ports | |
| Customer Needs | |
| High I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing; solutions that reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs. | |
| Key RAID Features | |
| • Flexible Configuration: HBA Mode & Auto Volume Mode for automatic deployment • Optimized Disk Utilization (Multiple Arrays per disk) • Supports up to 256 SAS or SATA devices using SAS expanders • Supported RAID levels: 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 • Support for native 4K sector SAS and SATA devices in addition to 512byte sector devices • Hybrid RAID 1 & 10 • Quick initialization • Online Capacity Expansion • Performance modes: Dynamic, OLTP & Big Block ByPass • Copyback Hot Spare • Dynamic caching algorithm • Native Command Queuing (NCQ) • Background initialization • Hot-plug drive support • RAID Level Migration • Hot spares - global, dedicated, and pooled • Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares • SES and SAF-TE enclosure management • Configurable stripe size • S.M.A.R.T. support • Multiple arrays per disk drive • Dynamic sector repair • Staggered drive spin-up • Bootable array support • Support for Tape Devices, Autoloaders • MSI-X support for all device driver for all supported Operating Systems • Secure boot support for the uEFI host bios • USB image available, after shipping, on start.adaptec.com to boot maxView GUI from any USB device for enhanced GUI based setup and offline maintenance | |
Some time ago, we changed the hardware of our VM server. We replaced the RAID controller with an Adaptec 6805 because the old controller had some problems. The server run with ESXi 5.1.
The problem with our Adaptec controller was that ESXi didn't support it out-of-the-box. It was supported in general but the driver was not included. We thought that the new ESXi 6 could contain the driver, but it didn't. So we had to create our own ESXi image with the Adaptec driver.
We thought it shouldn't be a problem because there was much documentation about custom images:
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/04/using-the-vsphere-esxi-image-builder-cli.html
http://www.virten.net/2015/03/esxi-6-0-image-for-intel-nuc/
(DE) https://www.thomas- krenn.com/de/wiki/Individuelles_ESXi_5....
Some problems:
- We tried to create an image for version 6
- We used the free version of ESXi with all its limitations
A problem was that the documentation references an 'offline software depot'. You can download the offline depot for the paid version but it's not available for the free version - not as simple download. No offline deplot means no custom image - right? Not right, because it's also possible to use an online depot.
The problem was that the documentation didn't contain a full description. We found some hints in different blogs but no complete description.
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Here are the steps how we created our custom ESXi 6 image with Adaptec 6805 driver:
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Downloads
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- ESXi
- PowerCLI 6
- Adaptec driver
Useful PowerCLI Documentation:
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp#...ve-EsxSoftwarePackage.html
Image creation
- Install PowerCLI 6 (and all required dependencies)
- Unzip the Adaptec driver to e.g. C:tempVMServer6
- Run PowerCLI as Administrator (sometimes, first launch of PowerCLI isn't working - simply close/run again)
- Execute following commands# Preconfigure
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
cd c:tempVMServer6# Use online depot
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
# Add offline bundle for adaptec driver
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot aacraid-6.0.6.2.1.41024-offline_bundle-2915492.zip# Check added depots
$DefaultSoftwareDepots# Lists all ESXi-6.* profiles
Get-EsxImageProfile -Name'ESXi-6.*'# Sets the base profile
New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile'ESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard'-name'ESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard-Adaptec'-Vendor'rjahn@SIB'-AcceptanceLevel'CommunitySupported'# Lists all included drivers
Get-EsxSoftwarePackage -Name'*aacraid*'# Adds adaptec driver from offline bundle
Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile'ESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard-Adaptec'-SoftwarePackage scsi-aacraid# Creates boot image
Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile'ESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard-Adaptec'-ExportToISO-filepath C:tempVMServer6buildESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard-Adaptec.iso# Creates Bundle
Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile'ESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard-Adaptec'-ExportToBundle-filepath C:tempVMServer6buildESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard-Adaptec.zip
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Version numbers may be different, but the procedure should work for you as well. The online depot:
https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
was the most important thing. All other steps can be found in the standard documentation.