[Solved] - Drive errors when installing pfSense as a VM under ESXi 6.5

gordon_cents

ESXi 6.5 seems to have a issue with the current SATA drivers. It was taking 15 minutes to install pfSense on a SSD as I was getting timeout errors on the drive.

Using putty I connected to the ESXi server and entered the command -

esxcli system module set –enabled=false --module=vmw_ahci

** Reboot the host to make the change effective. **

Hope this help others setting pfSense in a VM.

Thanks

KOM

I've installed pfSense in a VM about 100 times and never had any problems, from ESXi 5 through to 6.5.

SATA drivers?? If you installed pfSense as a FreeBSD x64 VM, it should have configured your disk subsystem as SCSI not SATA.

gordon_cents

I'm not referring to the VM but the HOST itself. In regards to installing the pfSense I followed the How-To document pfSense provides.

Thanks

gjaltemba

Disabling the native driver was necessary in older versions but I now have vmw-ahci enabled without problems that you described.

Version 1.0.0-39vmw.650.1.26.5969303

gordon_cents

Hi gjaltemba,

Could very well be a version issue. I D/L'ed the EXSi free version (6.5.0a) last week. Not sure if one is given access to updated bits when running on the "free" version.

Thanks,

KOM

There should be no difference in hardware support, regardless of license level.