Adaptec 71605 HBA Controller + VMware ESXi 6.5.0 or 7

[leosmendes]

Hello good afternoon, could anyone help with the necessary files to make the adaptec 71605 controller work on the esxi, they are no longer available anywhere. the only thing I got was the bios

[DGroves]

contact the vender directly via email and see if they dropped support or just missed linking to them

[leosmendes]

I'm not getting support anywhere, not from the seller, not from the manufacturer or from Broadcom. my hope would be for some user who has the files

[DGroves]

adaptec as a separate company hasn't existed for almost a decade and has changed hands several times it's currently owned by the firm "MicroChip" they are who you need to contact/ask about making the esxi drivers available

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/adaptec

[slewsys]

VMware's HBA compatibility list does not appear to include the 71605 (NB: the list is for ESXi 7.0).  If you want an inexpensive, high-performance SAS HBA, you might consider looking on eBay for the  Adaptec/Microsemi SmartHBA 2100.  The driver, smartpqi, is open source and shipped with Linux.  I use the SmartHBA 2100-4i4e with HP Z8 running Fedora + ZFS. The compatibility list above only mentions the 2100-24i, but there's a single driver for all the 2100 variants (and SmartRAID 3100).