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Ibrahim_Khalil
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VMware ESXi Installation issue in Dell PowerEdge R7515 NVMe disks

We are using Dell PowerEdge R7515 Server with 4 NVMe SSD physical disks. We have created 2 virtual disks with Raid 1 like VD-1 with disk0, disk1 and VD-2 with disk2, disk3.

When we are going to install the ESXI 8.0.2 then we couldn't found any virtual disks. There showing dirctly 4 NVMe physical disks as following image.

ESXi Installation issue.png

How to install the ESXi OS in virtual disks?

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Acebandge
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You may want to verify that your Raid utility finished building and initializing the drives.  I know it can take a little while large drives and if it gets interrupted the raid group won't be seen and it will look like what your picture shows. 

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MerlevedeN
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Are you using the dell custom iso? Make sure your raid controller is on the supported HW list.

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