Usually when I come across a system like this, Ijust flash the firmware to an IT mode so we get just an AHCI system with JBOD, but sometimes it is not practical for remote systems or if we fear that flashing is too risky if something goes wrong.
In this case, we unfortunately have to use LSI/Broadcom proprietary CLI tools (megacli) to even make the drives visible.
Step 1 - Download MegaCLI
The official broadcom packages lack .deb packages and only have .rpm for........
How To Install Ceph
If you stopped an install of Ceph midway you will need to manually restart it with "pveceph install"
Remember that your VM needs to have working internet (gateway) and DNS in order to connect to the apt repo to download all of the packages that Ceph requires.
Remember to repeat these steps for each node that you want Ceph on.
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#if you have nvidia make sure you install the nvidia-cuda-toolkit so hardware acceleration can be used
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-3.3.2.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf ffmpeg-3.3.2.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-3.3.2/
./configure --disable-yasm
install prefix /usr/local
source path ........