I'm throwing together an ESXi box and the board I have has unsupported SATA (I've tried it, it doesn't work). Does anyone know of a cheap as you like PCI-E SATA controller that would work? Preferably half height, not bothered about raid and most importantly cheap as chips (as in less than £20). Its purely for messing around with at home so whitebox compatibility is fine.
Anyone know of a Cheap ESXi compatible PCI-E SATA controller?
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I have unfortunately tried that. the board is a Zotac GF9300-KE ITX Board, It has several disk controller modes IDE, AHCI, AHCI Linux. Unfortunately it wont recognise any of them.
It was worth a try I suppose!
Give this page a look: http://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php
Give this page a look: http://www.vm-help.com//esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php
Yeah that page is great unfortunately all the controllers it lists are either PCI or £100 +
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No software raid card will work.
Your best bet would be a dell perc 5, should be able to pick one up for around ~£50
Your best bet would be a dell perc 5, should be able to pick one up for around ~£50
Im not after raid, I'm after a simple sata controller for 1 disk. There are plenty of these that work in ESXi with direct disk access and are cheap but they are almost exclusively PCI. I'm hopeing someone has some experience with a PCI-E card.
Unfortunately, I think most people generally have motherboards with SATA chipsets that work and if they need extra storage they tend to go for the LSI 1068e based SATA/SAS controllers (Dell 5/6ir, LSI 3081E-R etc) or better which are, as noted above, around 50 quid plus cables. EBay is the place for cables but make sure you have the correct ones ordered as some are directional. There is what looks like a Dell 5 or 6ir with two SAS drives and a cable going for 5 quid with 22 hours to go on one site.
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the only other choice that I can think of is a PCI-e to PCI adapter like the one made by Startech... but that will add another 30 quid +
you can get a PCI-e - PCI risers (90 degree) as well but seems a bit of a mess about session to be honest
you can get a PCI-e - PCI risers (90 degree) as well but seems a bit of a mess about session to be honest
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