Areca Driver Disk for ARC-11XX/12XX/16XX/18XX on VMware ESXi 5.X

Installation for Areca RAID volume(s) as data storage:
   1). Launch VMware vSphere Client and login the ESXi 5.x server.
   2). In ESXi server console, press <F2> to enter "Customize System/View Logs". Then, enter "Troubleshooting Options" to enable ESXi shell and SSH
   3). If you have a older driver, please remove it from ESXi terminal. 
   4). Please copy the vib to ESXi server with scp utility. 
   5). Make sure you are in maintenance mode. By vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter, 
		or set ESXi 5.x server into "Maintenance Mode".(select Inventory-->Host-->Enter Maintanence Mode) to enter the maintenance mode.
   6). Load the module.
		#@$ esxcli software vib install -v file:///path/to/your/vib/on/local/file/system/scsi-arcmsr-XXX.vib [--additional-parameters, such as --no-sign-check]
   7). Verify that your driver module shows up under the /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/ directory.
   8). Exit maintenance mode on the ESXi 5.x server through VMware Vsphere Client.
   9). Reboot ESXi 5.x server.
  10). Verify that your driver is loaded. If it is not, load the driver using the command vmkload_mod <your_driver_name>



*** Notice ***
    Please make sure your motherboard had been listed in the HCL.
    We had encounted Guest OS installation problem on these non-certified boards, 
	and this installation problem occur even no Areca card exist.