Unable to see disks

[Anagog]

Hi,

I have TrueNAS running in a VM on ESXI. I'm using a HP Gen 8 Microserver with a HP Smart Array P222 RAID card flashed to latest firmware and in HBA mode. On my VM I have passed the P222 directly through to the VM but It isn't showing any disks. When I disable the passthrough the disks show as expected in VMware. Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong please? (Apart from running it as a VM. Want to give it bare metal access to the Disks and with my setup this is the best way to do it)

 

[joeschmuck]

flashed to latest firmware and in HBA mode.

TrueNAS/FreeNAS needs the RAID card in "IT" mode, not HBA (also called IR) mode.

 

[Anagog]

TrueNAS/FreeNAS needs the RAID card in "IT" mode, not HBA (also called IR) mode.

Ah, that would explain it. I haven't been able to find anything for IT mode for this card annoyingly. Guess I'll set it back up with devices passed through for the time being and look into getting a different card at a later date. Is there one you would recommend for 4 drives?

 

[joeschmuck]

I guess you could use RDM, I have done that before even though it isn't recommened and ran like that for almost a year without issue. I was learning VMWare, that is my excuse. Actually it was becasue someone said I could do it but I shouldn't do it. Challenge accepted.

 

[Anagog]

Yeah, that is what I was using but was getting some SMART monitoring issues (Either that or one of the drives is actually on the way out... ILO reports it as healthy). Bought a Xeon as an upgrade, both for more cores and VTd support so I could actually pass through the card and do things properly... half way there I guess. Thanks :)

 

[zis8snbt4p]

Don't know where you are with this but you can follow this guide to crossflash to IT mode.
What I found also was that if you don't flash the boot rom you can't see the disks.