Ive been reading this thread and trying to set up ESXI with a couple of VM's. I followed the instruction but ran into a bit of a roadblock. My hardware is similar to Johnm's. I changed the settings in the bios to allow to passthrough devices to vm's, I flashed the firmware on my controller card (IBM M1015) to IT mode. My problem arises when I try to add storage in ESXI. My Storage adapter card is recognized as LSI 2008 under the storage adapter section, but when I go to create a new datastore there is are no hard drives to select. Im not sure what im missing, I've tried passing my controller card to the unraid vm, and while the controller is detected in the VM, the same issue persists, no hard drives are showing up. Im not sure if I missed something, I combed through the instructions several times and I dont see what im doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated, I can post additional info if required.