3ware 9650se Raid Controller Driver Vmware

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Hi I'm a software guy that got a hold of my company's old server after an upgrade, and I'm looking to set it up at home for some projects. It's a custom built box that's probably about ten years old now. It has two Intel Xeon processors, 4 gb of RAM (which I'm upgrading to 8) and 4 500 gb SATA hard drives with expansion slots for four more.
The OS it came with (Windows 7 Ultimate) was dis-activated and I have had a lot of trouble finding the right RAID drivers to install any other OS over it. As the title suggests, it came with a 3WARE AMCC 9550SX controller with four slots (this model: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1740122). I've tried doing a clean installation of Windows 7 Pro, Windows server 2008, and Windows server 2012 so far, and every time I get to the point of selecting the installation drive, and it gives me an error that it can't see any hard drives and and the option to add the appropriate drivers. I made a full backup of the drivers that came with the machine (it had Windows 7 Ultimate installed), but when I try to select them from a flash drive the Windows installation won't take them.
I'm looking to run a few virtual machines on this server - probably Windows Server 2012 as a web server for some ASP.NET projects and Ubuntu Server as a home file server. I originally wanted to install VMWare's ESXI to use for this purpose, but it didn't like the RAID controller. So I decided to give Windows 7 Pro or Windows Server 2008 with VirtualBox or a similar program a try - and again, I'm stuck with these driver errors on installation.
My questions to the experts out there: does any one know where I can find these drivers? A google search returns some results, but it's all just junkware websites with no actual valid driver downloads available. I'm willing to try another RAID controller - preferably one with 8 ports so I can utilize all of the drive slots, but I don't want to break the bank for this. Could anyone recommend a comparable controller with readily available drivers that would fit these needs for a decent price? Also, I've read in other places that this controller may is more Linux-friendly. If that's the case I would be totally fine with installing Ubuntu Desktop 64 bit and running the virtual machines from there.
Thanks in advance for any advice!

This concerns a server that runs ESXi (v. 4.x or 5.x) installed on drives that are configured into a raid10 using an LSI 3ware 97050 raid controller.

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May 30, 2012 - Download the correct offline driver bundle: VMware drivers for LSI raid controllers; Download the vSphere CLI tool: browse to the IP of your.

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I would like to know if there is a way to monitor the LSI 3ware series of controllers, in particular the 9750, through ESXi. And to hopefully also run the monitoring daemon LSI provides.

I know you can set up a cronjob to execute tw_cli through ssh on the ESXi server. However that's not really ideal.

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vCenter has some pre-built alerts that will catch hardware failure on (most) hardware. This will show up as an alert in the vSphere Client, and can also send out a trap to a listening host.

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It looks like the only way to monitor this 3ware raid controller through ESXi is to enable ssh access on the ESXi server, install tw_cli on the datastore (not in places such as /opt because it won't survive a reboot) and set up a daily or weekly cron job to run something like:

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And have the result emailed to you. Which cron should do automatically. You can enhance it with grep and whatever else works to only email you in case of an alarm. Make sure to copy your ssh key so you don't need to provide your password. You will have to repeat this after the ESXi server reboots.

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This has the added benefit you can also manage the raid using the tw_cli tool through an ssh session.

ssh can be enabled on ESXi 5.0 rather easily through the vsphere client:

Or using the console:

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To enable ssh on ESXi 4.1 try this:

And on ESXi 4.0 this will enable ssh:

Since for 4.0 it's a little bit more hassle I laid out the basic upshot:

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  • at the console hit alt F1
  • type: unsupported
  • enter password
  • vi /etc/inetd.conf
  • comment in the line(s) with ssh
  • kill inetd
  • run inetd (just typing it)
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