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Notes on Adaptec 5 Series Cards on ESXi
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| I've tried the following configuration on ESXi up to 6.5.0 Update 2 (Build 10719125) | |
| Beware the Adaptec, you can trick their support software into working | |
| with older cards by torturing your whitebox with various old vibs... | |
| But you will NEVER get Maxview Storage Manager to work! NEVER! | |
| Be grateful for ARCCONF, it's all you're getting, Adaptec sucks. | |
| I personally have a ASR-51245, running the latest BIOS available, 18948. | |
| The 5805, 5405, 6405, 6805, etc... should all in theory work with this combo, but if you have a 6 series card, you will have working maxview anyway. | |
| So the trick here is using just the right versions of the drivers, cim providers and arcconf to get this to work, bear with me. | |
| In theory, this should work all the way up to the latest version of 6.7, however in my testing I was not able to verify this. | |
| I know it will work on at least 6.7.0 Release. | |
| Driver | |
| URL: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI60-PMC-AACRAID-62141024&productId=491 | |
| Filename: aacraid-6.0.6.2.1.41024-2915492.zip | |
| Release Date: 23 July 2015 | |
| This is the last driver to support 5 Series cards in any way that could be considered proper. | |
| CIM Provider | |
| URL: https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/speed/raid/storage_manager/msm_vmware_v2_02_22404_zip.php | |
| Filename: msm_vmware_v2_02_22404.zip | |
| Release Date: 20 Oct 2016 | |
| This is the ONLY cim provider I can find that works. | |
| Arcconf | |
| URL http://download.adaptec.com/raid/storage_manager/arcconf_v2_06_23167.zip | |
| Filename arcconf_v2_06_23167.zip | |
| Release Date 05 Jul 2018 | |
| All the recent versions from 2.06.23167 onwards should work. | |
| Maxview will log in and may work intermittently in terms of monitoring, but it is definitely unreliable. | |
| It's best to slipstream the vibs into a ESXi 6.5 ISO or wait until everything in this gist is set up before you create your raid volumes. | |
| If you have issues with dissapearing data stores, you may have to reattach them from the direct management console or SSH, check the vmware support site for for info. |
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Quick and Dirty proof Screenshots, I have actually had ESXi change status when a disk just so happened to drop (had a bad SFF8087 to SATA cable), so I know for a fact that it can correctly detect status.
I wonder how adaptec would feel about a generic webui that interacts with the arcconf executable... something tells me they'd get upset that maxview had a competitor...