Disable MegaRAID SAS Controller in ESXi

[Chris P]

Hi there,

Is is possible to completely disable the MegaRAID SAS Invader Controller on a B200 M4 blade? We do not use this controller as we boot over the network using Auto Deploy in ESXi 5.5. I would like for it not to show up in ESXi.

I have created a BIOS Policy which sets to disabled the 'Intel Entry SAS RAID' and 'Onboard SCU Storage Support' options but this has not helped.

Thanks

Chris

[Keny Perez]

If that is the embedded RAID controller, you might want to enter BIOS and disable it from there.

-Kenny

[dittocisco]

Chris,

Did you ever resolve this?  I'm having the same issue.

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

Have you tried the SAS option ROM disable?

[edit]

Sorry, realize that you are asking about disabling it all together.  You can do that on rack servers for raid controllers in specific PCI-E slots (set link speed to 'disabled', but I have not see that work on a blade.

Thanks,

Kirk...