Okay.

I try to move my unraid from harware to esxi.

I have to drives, one parity and one normal.

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First, I have added a PCI-E SATA card (IT-mode) and enabled PCI passtrough

Then I have inserted the USB, but made it not to boot on hardware bios (Because of ESXi)

 

Now, ESXI is up, I created A VM (settings below), made passtrough of my PCI-E SATA card, and made passtrough of my USB-device, I think.

I am not able to boot from USB, but I have read at the forum it should be posible in ESXi 7.

Any sugestions?

 

 

CONFIG:
Name	UnRAID
Datastore	datastore2
Guest OS name	Ubuntu Linux (64-bit)
Compatibility	ESXi 7.0 virtual machine
vCPUs	4
Memory	20 GB
Network adapters	1
Network adapter 1 network	LAN-server
Network adapter 1 type	VMXNET 3
IDE controller 0	IDE 0
IDE controller 1	IDE 1
SCSI controller 0	LSI Logic Parallel
SATA controller 0	New SATA controller
Hard disk 1	
Capacity	1GB
Datastore	[datastore2] UnRAID/
Mode	Dependent
Provisioning	Thick provisioned, lazily zeroed
Controller	SCSI controller 0 : 0
CD/DVD drive 1	
Backing	
Connected	Yes
USB controller 1	USB 2.0
USB device 1	Kingston DataTraveler 3.0

 

 

folowed this guide, besides that I try to move my install, not do a new install.

 

 

Edited December 6, 20205 yr by Flemming

Your config looks OK.  Have you verified that the USB boots on that hardware, without ESXi?

 

Here is my VM config:

 

Oh...is it set up for UEFI?  It only works on UEFI boot.

or you can try old and working plopKExec method..