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LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER NOT DISCOVERING LOCAL HOST WINDOWS

It was hit and miss as to whether I had to add the line from /etc/hosts on the ESXi server with the hostname to my Windows box. You can and probably should do the usual behaviour of taking it into maintenance mode, but in my case everything shut down and came up cleanly as VMWare Tools was installed on each guest. Bad practice, but I don’t have a list of the specific ports to open at present.Įsxcli network firewall set -enabled false I also had to disable the firewall on the ESXi host.

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER NOT DISCOVERING LOCAL HOST INSTALL

SSH to the ESXi host with appropriate credentials (I did everything as root) and run the following install command:Įsxcli software vib install -v /tmp/vmware-esx-provider-lsiprovider.vib -no-sig-check I found that my sneaky attempt at copying it to a shared volume at /vmfs/volumes/… was hit and miss when it was a fibre channel mount, the install worked properly, but if the datastore was on a local disk, it died with an error message. vib extension) to the /tmp directory on ESXi host (scp/WinSCP/your client of choice). Then I also used Ctrl+F and searched for “MegaRAID Storage Manager”, which offered MSM for a variety of platforms:Ĭopy the LSI SMIS provider (the file with. There were 679 results I used Ctrl+F and searched for “SMIS”, which offered a link titled “Latest SMIS Providers” for VMWare 6.0 and 6.5:

Asset Type: Management Software and Tools.

OEM: (left blank – showed up as ‘OEM’ in the search interface).

Family: Storage Controllers, Adapters and ICs.

Group: Storage Controllers, Adapters and ICs.

On the Broadcom website, I selected the following categories for download: Get the LSI downloads ( SMIS provider and the latest MegaRAID MSM): I found filtering by OEM did not successfully show results. Then, click the Edit settings button and choose Community.

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER NOT DISCOVERING LOCAL HOST UPDATE

The original, excellent instructions from Mike Smith at Serenity-Networks, despite being for ESXi 5.5, seemed to work with some minor adaptations for ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 5969303), with the latest versions of software from Avago (Broadcom).Įnable SSH on ESXi host: From the web UI, in the Navigator column, select Host, then choose Actions > Enable Secure Shell (SSH):Īdjust the “acceptance level” to allow installation of unsigned VIB files: In the Navigator column, select Manage, then select the Security & users tab.

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER NOT DISCOVERING LOCAL HOST HOW TO

Original article: How to install LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) on ESXi 5.5 I intend to publish a few posts with some of the links and practices I’ve used lately. It has been kicking disks that seem entirely fine out of RAID1 volumes, which effectively has the same side effect as losing a disk. I’ve been arguing with an Exchange 2016 server lately, due to what I suspect is a dodgy IBM-badged MR10i RAID controller in a x3650 M3. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged ESXi, Hardware, LSI, MSM, RAID, SMIS provider by Robert Kihlberg. I hope this helps the RAID administration! Let me know if you succeed or not in the comments. Select File – Open, and enter the following file name: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (*) Right click on a link to Notepad (or a custom text editor) and choose Run as administrator.

Hit search and the host should appear with the correct hostname and IP.

Change the search setting to ESXIMON servers, save, and then enter the IP of the local machine (not the host IP) in the search field.

On the client Windows machine, edit the hosts file* and add a row for each hostname found in step 4, for example:.

Copy the line with the IP address to the server, for example:.

View the hosts file with cat /etc/hosts.

Enable SSH on the host and connect to the host over SSH.

Do you get health indications from the RAID card in vSphere? If not stop here, install it and make sure it is working.

Make sure the LSI SMIS provider is working.

Here is what was needed for me to get it working with this setup. However, most of the tricks did not work or was not an issue for me. I have read multiple guides on doing this very simple thing.

LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER NOT DISCOVERING LOCAL HOST ISO

(I included the offline bundle into the ESXi ISO before installation. LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager, MSM, latest version from LSI’s page.LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i (this guide will work on most 926x and 927x cards).Here is a quick post on how to remotely manage an LSI MegaRAID card in an ESXi host with MegaRAID Storage Manager, aka MSM.