{"id":2370,"date":"2014-05-03T05:26:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2014-05-03T05:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T12:26:50","slug":"esxi-5-5-and-the-perc-5-series-of-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/esxi-5-5-and-the-perc-5-series-of-cards","title":{"rendered":"ESXi, 5.5, and the PERC 5 series of cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, many of us have come to love the stodgy old PERC5 RAID controller &#8211; this SATA 3G\/s and SAS 1.5G\/s controller is generally a reliable little beast.<\/p>\n<p>Until it meets Intel&#8217;s VT-d on a system running esxi 5.5. Then.. not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you don&#8217;t happen to need passthrough, you can disable VT-d. However, if you happen to have a Dell 710 that has no ability to disable VT-d without disabling VT-x, you might find yourself needing the &#8216;noiommu&#8217; boot option.<\/p>\n<p>Problem: that option no longer lurks under the advanced setting menu.<\/p>\n<p>However, the good news is, you can still set it, either by passing it in on the kernel boot options line, or by setting it in the CLI:<\/p>\n<p>esxcfg-advcfg &#8211;set-kernel &#8220;TRUE&#8221; noiommu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, many of us have come to love the stodgy old PERC5 RAID controller &#8211; this SATA 3G\/s and SAS 1.5G\/s controller is generally a reliable little beast. Until it meets Intel&#8217;s VT-d on a system running esxi 5.5. Then.. not so much. Now, if you don&#8217;t happen to need passthrough, you can disable VT-d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}