I have a HP ProLiant MicroServer (N40L) which has a SB700 disk controller based on the on-board AMD chipset, and unfortunately VMware ESXi Hypervisor 5.0.0 (build 469512) does not support this controller when it is configure with a RAID 0 set. ESXi simply sees the individual disks, not the RAID set.
After looking around online it would appear that the controller in question (SB700) is considered somewhat of a 'fake RAID' controller and as such is not supported by VMware.
I was wondering if others have experienced this same issue and if so, has anyone been able to get this controller to work using RAID 0 with ESXi 5?
Any advice, other than your s**t out of luck, or buy a PCIe RAID controller card that is supported, would be much appreciated.