ESXi 7.0/6.7 and MegaRaid on Alder Lake Asrock Z690M-ITX/ax
I'm going to upgrade my home server that runs Core i5-2500K on old P8H67-I mainboard with LSI 9265-8i SAS controller and I've done some experiments prior to this upgrade on a new hardware, that is Asrock Z690M-ITX/ax motherboard with i5-12600/i5-12600K processor. Generally I always have a common platform between my main PC and the server so that I can try some stuff ahead of server migration with minimal hassle and it paid off this time. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This configuration is not on HCL and unsupported, you may incur data loss, please read this article carefully before making decisions or changing your setup. Always have a backup available off the system! Part I: MegaRAID cards firmware woes The experimental setup was Asrock Z690M-ITX/ax BIOS ver 7.02, i5-12600K (server will have plain 12600 though) and LSI 9260-4i card (LSI 2108 family, Dell PERC H700 compatible) with RAID-1. The server I'm going to upgrade has 9265-8i, that is LSI 2208 or Dell PERC H710, different family