Today While installing ESXi5 in HP Blade server, I got a strange issue that My local SAS Raid disk is showing under Remote disk. I was confused that may be some of the LUN have detected with this installation and I am worried to install ESXi with this remote disk. I have confirmed that local disk configured with the blade and disk showing under Remote disk size is same as 300 GB.
This issue has been reported by many of the people in internet and found the KB article from VMware in the Link “When installing ESX/ESXi 4.x or 5.x to a physical server, the local SAS drive appears as a remote storage“
As per the KB article “A Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) card is marked as local only if the installer finds its corresponding identifier in the installation driver file. Otherwise, it assumes that the SAS card is remote.
Though the SAS card appears to be remote, you can still select and use it.” So continued my installation with the disk displayed under remote and completed installation without formatting any LUNS.
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