VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation and RWC2 Tips and Tricks White Paper

ESXi 5.0 Related RAID Operations
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Figure 18. RAID Configuration Results
2.2 Make ESXi 5.0 Installation Disk for 2208 Chip based RAID Controller
Driver
2.2.1 Preparations
1. Get VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation depot. User has to contact VMware to get a proper level of
access right to download the ESXi 5.0 installation depot. In this document, the downloaded
ESXi 5.0 installation depot is named “VMware-ESXi-5.0.0-469512-depot.zip”.
2. Get the VMware ESXi 5.0 Driver for 2208 Chip based RAID Controller. It can be downloaded
from
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/dt_esxi50_lsi_2108_v534/dHRAYnRqZWRiZHAlJQ .
Extract the downloaded zip file to get the “LSI_5_34-offline_bundle-455140.zip” which
contains the 2208 chip based RAID controller driver.