During the setup of ESXI 5.0 ou 5.1 drives are displayed as remote

It's a know display "bug", you can just proceed.

source : http://blog.scottlowe.org/2011/04/27/vmware-esxi-local-disks-showing-as-remote/

Information source: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2011/04/27/vmware-esxi-local-disks-showing-as-remote/