This is a bit of a long shot but... has anyone with a motherboard using the Intel Z77 chipset managed to use the onboard SATA RAID funtionality for a data store in ESXi?
My whitebox server is an ASRock Z77 Extreme mobo / i7 3770 with an SSD and a couple of 3TB HDD which I'd optimistically hoped to use for a RAID1 mirror. Looking at the ASRock downloads available (http://www.asrock.com/MB/download.asp?Model=Z77%20Extreme4&o=All) there's a Windows download called "SATA RAID Driver (For system to read from floppy diskette during Windows installation)". Clearly ESXi needs some kind of driver to talk to the onboard RAID (will this be generic Intel or specific to ASRock?) but I haven't been able to find anything, e.g. in the Rollup 2 or Drivers download pages.
I know I'm kind of on my own at the moment in that this combo is very new and not on the HCL etc... just wondering if anyone else has tried this?
Simon