I tried one, the board still wouldn't let me get into esxi. Something in the boards bios is crashing the install and put simply you cant work around that while having ahci properly enabled.
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I tried one, the board still wouldn't let me get into esxi. Something in the boards bios is crashing the install and put simply you cant work around that while having ahci properly enabled.
It's still imo a huge disappointment that we still only know of the ASUS boards working. I am saving up the pennies now to buy the Zeneth as I need to settle on a board before I put all my water cooling gear in and I am not sure I can be a test bed for yet another board even though I do really like the DESIGNARE.
Good to see you up and running though and the Prime really does just sail through. I am convinced it's something to do with the number of sata ports, there must be a reason that the top end ROG only has 6 and the boards that appear not to work correctly have 8. It's also why I can't justify another 350 quid on yet another board to find out it's not working again.
All of these things work for me on the Asus board.
The issue is your vmware version. Versions before 6.5 update 1 had a cpu core limit of 15. Even with smt disabled assuming your on a 1950x your still going to have 16 cores. At least this is my first gues. If you post the full Iso name that would be helpful.
Happy to post screen shots tomorrow of all the bios settings you need enabled or that are helpful when virtuaising. Off the top of my head you only need to enable cpu virtualisation to be able to pass the installer, if i remember rightly it took me a while to find in the prime bios.
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Argh this thread... why no notifications? I'l have a check on my nas/vmware when I get to work and see.
Right RDP'd into my home machine to look at my nas, the highlighted iso is the fella that works flawless every time:
I just spotted this in New posts and was like... I recognise that thread 
I recently put the Taichi back in my machine and moved the prime over to another machine running TR-JR (1900x).
Im thinking it might be time to re roll this and see if the Taichi works yet?
I recently put the Taichi back in my machine and moved the prime over to another machine running TR-JR (1900x).
Im thinking it might be time to re roll this and see if the Taichi works yet?
There are some changes you need to make to some vm config files for your pass through to work correctly. I will try find you a link
Thanks dude... I should really wack some updates out on this. I am sure the world wants to know if ASRock ever sorted the Taichi for ESXi, even I want to know! I put the board back in and everything just to find out!
I still haven't tried mind. I ended up building a second TR rig for ESXi! Over this weekend I am making it my mission to answer the question of does it work. Fwiw I did end up adding a shed load of GPU's into the esxi lab and testing gpu passthrough on the x399-a. I had passthrough running on Vega, RX570, RX560, RX550 & RX480. So can confirm that this does work but there are some esxi config files that need tweaking to make it seamless.
Can also confirm 6.7 works on my Taichi Big thumbs up to the lads at vmware / asrock for finally getting this sorted! I haven't had much in the way of esxi work recently but when my next bit comes along it's gonna be really nice not having to swap boards in and out.
Big thumbs up to the lads at vmware / asrock for finally getting this sorted! I haven't had much in the way of esxi work recently but when my next bit comes along it's gonna be really nice not having to swap boards in and out.This is true but the monitoring is not fully supported outside of pretty much anything that isn't oem hardware. I have never had an unsupported board that properly reports on the hardware in ESXi. Fully working in respect of an unsupported lab is everything apart from monitoring imo. so long as sata and all the other hardware is available to the environment then for a lab that should be enough, in production really id be sticking with HP DL385 gen 10 etc and enough of them for HA and DRS, I mean that's just sensible if you are running in anything which would be classed as medium or above in terms of business size, I was going to buy the gen 10's this year but with 7nm epyc so close i'm now waiting on that. You can bet all the money that when hp release those new 385's that ill be all over them
Somebody should be able to 3d print one, this is the same part that didn't come in my 399 prime. Asus were totally usless. I got one on eBay in the end and now no longer own the board as I gave it to a friend and went back to the Taichi.
128gb @ 3200 is too much for the imc to take. Remember TR as you up the capacity and banks consumed, that it only properly supports 2133. Read your motherboard manual, mine makes it quite clear on limitations when all banks are filled. I can get all banks running at 2933 but much more than that and it doesn't like it. Reduce the capacity and more is achievable.
The current state of play with the taichi is pretty good. Things appear to keep improving as ESXi release new builds and in it's current state it's workable in the lab for sure, it appears some people are having some issues here and there passing through certain devices etc but personally for me and what I need it for it's been perfect. It's my favourite x399 board of them all! It might not be the best overclocker or the best at everything but it is just a really nice, well thought out and well rounded board. Oh and welcome to my thread! I am sure you will find that the hospitality here is top notch
