Which RAID controller and Intel I7 3770 is compatible with ESXI?

Question

System administration

Advise which of the inexpensive Raid controllers should be purchased to make it work on an Intel I7 3770 processor.
Installed ESXi 5 hypervisor and a bunch of virualok. You need to combine two SSD hard drives using a Raid controller. There is no information on the vmware offsite that the Intel i7 3770 is supported, but the processor
supports: Intel® Hyper-Threading ‡ Yes, Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡ Yes, and Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ) Yes.
The question is: Advise which RAID controller and Intel I7 3770 compatible with ESXI? Ps No more than 12 thousand rubles.

Answer 1

The processor and RAID controller are not related at all. You need to look for a separate RAID that is supported by your hyperwizard, you can also pay attention to the form factor and the availability of the necessary ports on the motherboard (PCI-Exp 4 \ 16 or PCI). Look at the younger Adaptec or LSI models, but I'm afraid you won't find anything at this price right now.

Answer 2

so that the controller does not turn out to be a bottleneck for the SSD, it should not be old -> save more money, at least buy it used on Ali - on the controllers in the docks they usually write how many IOPS they can chew