I ran lspci -v | more command and received the following as feedback:
SATA Controller Mass Storage Controller - Intel Corporation Patsburg 6 port SATA AHCI controller vmhba0 Class 0106:8086:1d02
SAS Controller Mass Storage Controller - Intel Corporation Class 0200:0806:1521
when I ran esxcfg I received the following:
vmhba0 AHCI link-n/a SATA vmhba0:0:0:31.2
I think the link being N/A might be the problem, do you think it may be what's going wrong with the install?