PERC access from VM (under VMWare ESXi)

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

Is there any way for a RHEL VM to access hardware such as a PERC
controller under ESXi (aka "ESX embedded")? I'm guessing no, but
there is a lot of expertise on this list and there may be a workaround.

This strikes me as a major limitation of ESXi since there is no way to
install OMSA or other tools that, for example, can run a "Patrol Read"
across disks to protect against read failures that SMART or RAID
do not detect.