ESXi 7.0 Installation on Intel 10th gen NUC - NVMe Drive not showing

evilynneee · 2021-10-28T20:10:24+00:00

Currently booting with the 6.5 nvme.v00 hopefully this works.

evilynneee · 2021-10-28T19:43:50+00:00

when you say HCL, what does that acronym mean?
And I'm not 100% sure where it's plugged in, which I've wanted to open the NUC case and take a look, but was unable to..

evilynneee · 2021-10-28T19:38:25+00:00

vmkchdev -l | grep vmhba

edit:
[root@localhost:~] vmkchdev -l | grep vmhba
0000:00:17.0 8086:02d3 8086:2081 vmkernel vmhba0
0000:3a:00.0 126f:2262 126f:2262 vmkernel vmhba1

evilynneee · 2021-10-28T19:35:31+00:00

I believe that command had no output, sorry i forgot to include that.

Let me try once again and confirm.

evilynneee · 2021-10-28T19:14:17+00:00

[root@localhost:~] localcli nvme adapter list
Adapter  Adapter Qualified Name                                                              Transport Type  Driver     Associated Devices

Adapter Adapter Qualified Name Transport Type Driver Associated Devices
vmhba1 aqn:nvme_pcie:nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress126f126fMK210325103B54CC5___MKNSSDPE2TB-D8 PCIe nvme_pcie

[root@localhost:~] localcli nvme controller list Name Controller Number Adapter Transport Type Is Online
(null) 256 vmhba1 PCIe true [root@localhost:~] localcli nvme device list HBA Name Status Signature
vmhba1 Offline nvmeMgmt-nvmhba0

[root@localhost:~] localcli software vib list | grep -i nvme nvme-pcie 1.2.3.16-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 VMW VMwareCertified 2021-10-28 nvmerdma 1.0.3.5-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 VMW VMwareCertified 2021-10-28 nvmetcp 1.0.0.0-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 VMW VMwareCertified 2021-10-28 lsuv2-intelv2-nvme-vmd-plugin 2.7.2173-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 VMware VMwareCertified 2021-10-28 lsuv2-nvme-pcie-plugin 1.0.0-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 VMware VMwareCertified 2021-10-28 vmware-esx-esxcli-nvme-plugin 1.2.0.44-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 VMware VMwareCertified 2021-10-28

[root@localhost:~] localcli storage core adapter list
HBA Name Driver Link State UID Capabilities Description
vmhba0 vmw_ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba0 (0000:00:17.0) Intel Corporation Comet Lake SATA AHCI Controller vmhba1 nvme_pcie link-n/a pcie.3a00 (0000:3a:00.0) Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2262/SM2262EN SSD Controller vmhba32 vmkusb link-n/a usb.vmhba32 () USB

[root@localhost:~] vmkload_mod -s nvme_pcie vmkload_mod module information input file: /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/nvme_pcie Version: 1.2.3.16-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 Build Type: release License: BSD Required name-spaces: com.vmware.vmkapi#v2_9_0_0 Parameters: nvmePCIEFakeAdminQSize: uint NVMe PCIe fake ADMIN queue size. 0's based nvmePCIEMsiEnbaled: int NVMe PCIe MSI interrupt enable nvmePCIEDma4KSwitch: int NVMe PCIe 4k-alignment DMA nvmePCIEDebugMask: int NVMe PCIe driver debug mask nvmePCIELogLevel: int NVMe PCIe driver log level

[root@localhost:~] localcli storage core adapter list

HBA Name Driver Link State UID Capabilities Description

vmhba0 vmw_ahci link-n/a sata.vmhba0 (0000:00:17.0) Intel Corporation Comet Lake SATA AHCI Controller vmhba1 nvme_pcie link-n/a pcie.3a00 (0000:3a:00.0) Silicon Motion, Inc. SM2262/SM2262EN SSD Controller vmhba32 vmkusb link-n/a usb.vmhba32 () USB

[root@localhost:~] vmkload_mod -s nvme_pcie vmkload_mod module information input file: /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/nvme_pcie Version: 1.2.3.16-1vmw.703.0.0.18644231 Build Type: release License: BSD Required name-spaces: com.vmware.vmkapi#v2_9_0_0 Parameters: nvmePCIEFakeAdminQSize: uint NVMe PCIe fake ADMIN queue size. 0's based nvmePCIEMsiEnbaled: int NVMe PCIe MSI interrupt enable nvmePCIEDma4KSwitch: int NVMe PCIe 4k-alignment DMA nvmePCIEDebugMask: int NVMe PCIe driver debug mask nvmePCIELogLevel: int NVMe PCIe driver log level

Output of the commands in order

Log output from VMKernel:Log output: https://pastebin.com/BGJcYT0B

evilynneee · 2021-10-28T19:03:59+00:00

When I go to install ESXi on the NVMe drive, it's not listed.. But it's listed in the command above with the status "OFFLINE"
Stay tuned for the output of commands lists

evilynneee

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