No, I haven't any FlexFlash. I've installed directly to my SAS 300Gb drive and than rebuild RAID between 2 HDDs. This process take up about 4 days :).But, you are absolutelly right - with SW RAID I can't create any RAID with other drives and I can us...

I've faced with this problem too. But...Actualy, VMware Hipervisor didn't support embedded RAID controller (aka SW RAID).If you see in BIOS Boot Order section, you couldn't see any HDD as Boot Device at all.You need to select "Intel RST" in controlle...