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But I believe using newer driver is a more elegant solution. Although they were even trying to downgrade the firmware. I have to thank to the users at VMware community forum, who have the same issue and pointed us to the right solution. If it will not work and you need to stay on ESXi 5.5 you may need to downgrade the firmware or contact Lenovo to give you a newer driver.
Just follow this procedure to create the iso image with custom driver. You can try to inject correct driver (lsi-mr3) in your ESXi 5.5 ISO in this case, however I’m not sure if the one available for 5.5 is working, the latest which I found for ESXi 5.5 at VMware Driver Download Page is VMware ESXi 5.5 lsi-mr3 6.610.20.00-1OEM SAS Driver for Avago Megaraid SAS 12Gbps Family of SAS controllers. If you are trying to use roll up image for ESXi 5.5 U3, you will fail as that one was released 2 years ago and doesn’t include the latest drivers.
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Solution for this is pretty easy, you just need to use ISO image for ESXi 6.0U3 with rolled up drivers which you can find at VMware page directly ? Driver included there is lsi-mr3 7.701.14.00-1OEM SAS Driver for Avago Megaraid Based Adapters Reason for this is, that LSI MegaRAID (Avago) storage driver bundled in ESXi image is not compatible with the latest firmware (in our case 23.34.0-0023) of m5110e controller included in our server. Yes, I hate this approach from the Lenovo as well, especially when they were promising the same level of support for IBM servers, before acquisition of x86 platform from IBM.
And William Lam pointed out that this patch enables support. The October 2014 patch of ESXi 5.5 already got a lot of attention, because it introduced additional Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) management capabilities to prepare for TPS being disabled by default in upcoming ESXi releases. Note: Lenovo ESXi customized images are not supported with IBM servers for some time, the latest supported was ESXi 5.5 U2 and ESXi 6.0. VMware silently adds native USB 3.0 support to ESXi 5.5. We tried to use several ESXi images including the latest Lenovo ESXi Customized image 5.5 and 6.0 and the stock VMware image as well, but without any success. For full details regarding the use of USB/SD cards as a boot device for ESXi, refer to KB Article. Note: The below content, originally published September 30, 2021, has been updated to reflect the revised stance on USB/SD cards as a boot device for ESXi outlined in KB Article 85685. It was very similar to the VMware KB2012053 so we knew it is most probably storage related. ESXi 7 Boot Media Considerations and VMware Technical Guidance. "/vmfs/devices/disk/naa.6." is not a valid absolute or relative path Vmkfstools failed with message: create fs deviceName. Installation failed during disk partitioning with following messages: If you already had your ESXi installed and did the firmware upgrade it may happen your local datastore will be in unmounted state. We suspected it could be a firmware issue as we performed a complete firmware upgrades just before the installation.
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Yesterday, we experienced a problem where we couldn’t install ESXi on the one of ours IBM x3650 M4 servers.