syee Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 I know there are a million threads on this issue - I've tried to go through as many of them as possible but I think I"m missing something here. I'm new to both VMWare and unRAID (though relatively tech savvy) so I thought I'd be able to figure this out but I've spent a whole weekend trying to get this to work with no success. Basic configuration is: Host is running VMWare ESXi 6.7 Unraid 6.6.6 is running within a VM Drives are 3x8TB WD Red's connected to the onboard SAS controller (which is an LSI SAS2008 built into a Gigabyte 7PESH2 motherboard) I've set the SAS controller to Passthrough=Active in the VMWare hardware settings. It appears that unRAID can see the controller, but never sees the disks. The controller itself sees the disks. I currently only have one of the drives hooked up with the data moved off it so I can do as I please with it. I'm assuming the fact I can't see any of the drives show up in the logs is the primary reason why unRAID doesn't display drives. I'm almost certain whatever I'm missing is very trivial but I can't seem to get past this point. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I'd be grateful! Diagnostic logs are attached. stinkynas-diagnostics-20190204-1855.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Moving to correct subforum. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Probably you know Unraid is a virtual host itself. Unlikely the cause of your problem, just thought I would mention it just in case you didn't know. Running Unraid as a VM is "officially unsupported", so we let others who are trying to do this support each other in this subforum. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 are you passed through the right controller? your syslog shows: Feb 4 18:48:07 STINKYNAS kernel: ioc0: LSISAS1068 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} Feb 4 18:48:07 STINKYNAS kernel: scsi host33: ioc0: LSISAS1068 B0, FwRev=01032920h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=18 and if you passtrough correct controller, then are your SAS 2008 controller flashed to IT mode? Quote Link to comment
syee Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 33 minutes ago, uldise said: are you passed through the right controller? your syslog shows: Feb 4 18:48:07 STINKYNAS kernel: ioc0: LSISAS1068 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} Feb 4 18:48:07 STINKYNAS kernel: scsi host33: ioc0: LSISAS1068 B0, FwRev=01032920h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=18 and if you passtrough correct controller, then are your SAS 2008 controller flashed to IT mode? The SAS2008 controller is flashed to IT mode. (as per the SAS BIOS when it comes up) I re-flashed it again last night in a desperation move because I didn't know what to do next. I did notice the different model in the log when I looked at it over the weekend. There's only one controller (the one built into the motherboard) in this system so there shouldn't be any others. I'll grab some screenshots when I get home from work. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 as i see on mobo pics, are there 3 SAS connectors? if so, then i think there are two controllers.. i did a little google on mobo specs, and did not found any information about. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 1 minute ago, uldise said: if so, then i think there are two controllers One is for the 4 Intel SATA2 ports, there is only one SAS2008 controller, though it looks like the controller isn't being passed correctly, or should appear as SAS2008. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 @syee please then post screenshot from ESXi pass-trough page.. Quote Link to comment
syee Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Here's a screenshot from the VMWare side Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 4 minutes ago, syee said: Here's a screenshot from the VMWare side and from your unraid VM settings too Quote Link to comment
syee Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 This is from the VM for Unraid side. Thanks again everyone for your input! Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 1 minute ago, syee said: This is from the VM for Unraid side. you should add PCI device and choose LSI2008. 1 Quote Link to comment
syee Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 10 hours ago, uldise said: you should add PCI device and choose LSI2008. Man I feel dumb. This was the piece I was missing. Added it and now my disks show up. Thanks uldise! Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 glad to see that sorted it Quote Link to comment
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