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Thread starter mda Start date Mar 19, Joined Mar 23, Messages 2, I'm currently running ESXI 6. Some questions: a.

I'm currently looking at either i's or i's, both of which are on the ESXI compatibility chart. What is the reason why the RAID is slow? This is more in line with what I expected. Last edited: Mar 19, Joined Dec 5, Messages 4, This is propably related to a secure write behaviour of ESXi that avoids any write cache. I write commit must mean that a write is on disk. The is a HBA without cache mainly intended for software raid.

So, here we go. Does ESXi 6. Esxi is fully installed and working. The drives show up but not as a raid. I have 5 Gb in a raid but it lists each individual drive, not all as a raid. To complete this process, you will have to put your ESXi host into maintenance mode, and you will have to reboot. So make sure your VMs are all shut down before proceeding.

Log into your host using the vSphere client, or the web interface, then go to the configuration tab and select Security Profile. Edit this and change it to Community Supported. Click the Summary tab and at the very bottom you will see Enter Maintenance Mode. Once you have connected to your host via SSH, do the following:. It will take a minute or two, and eventually it will install. Also, make sure you are in Maintenance Mode.

Once finished, you can close your SSH window and reboot the server. On your Windows virtual machine, we need to edit the hosts file. It needs to be on the same local network as your hosts management ip address. It should eventually show up below in Remote Servers, where you can click Login, and login using your ESXi host credentials.

Once you login, you are good to go. It will take a few seconds , after clicking login, before MSM opens. Its a fairly painless process, if you have the right information and steps at hand. Since Areca supplies VMware drivers on their site, and this is a well-established name-brand controller, you may expect it to be easy to get it working.

This particular model was the Areca ARCi. Now use the freeware PuTTY to bring up a terminal window giving you basic command line access to your server. At the PuTTY prompt, run this command:.