Hmmm, so back in the ESXi 5.5 days, LSI 2108 based cards used the native lsi_mr3 driver…!?! Check out the above VCG entry for the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i for yourself HERE I even found the LSI 2015 Product Guide that contains something like thirteen LSI 2108 chipset based cards if you fancy spending a couple of hours on VMware Compatibility Guide!! Clutching at StrawsĬhecking the VCG with the first five above, straight away I noticed something: Lenovo / IBM ServeRAID M5015 / M5014 - pdf.What other RAID controller cards use the LSI 2108 chipset? We know that LSI don’t just make chipsets for Dell. Time to do some reading… Dell PERC H700 RAID Controller - Tell Me MoreĪccording to Dell’s own documentation the PERC Technical Guidebook lists the H700 and H800 adapters as based on the LSI 2108 chipset: We can confirm that by looking in the VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG): It’s the H700 that’s using a VMKlinux driver. My R710 is currently running ESXi 6.7U3, so lets run the suggested test: I kind of know the answer already, but lets see. Dell PERC H700 RAID Controller - Tell Me MoreĪfter some research, I found this post on the VMware blogs site: What is the Impact of the VMKlinux Driver Stack Deprecation?Īs you can guess from that title, from v7.0 onwards, ESXi will no longer support VMKlinux based drivers.
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