ESX 4 and Perc 5i issues

[dustynz]

I have the following issue.

I have a Asus P6T with an Intel Core 7 processor. I also have a Perc5i card with a 400 gig 15k Sas drive attached. I also have a sata drive attached to the motherboard.

I have installed ESX 4 and all is working fine except when I go to use the SAS drive.

Initially it could not even import the disk however after flashing to the latest LSI firmware the drive imports okay however when I try to use the disk (eg create vm) it generates the following errors

Sep 3 07:19:29 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:37:54.535 cpu5:4110)WARNING: Fil3: 10730: Found invalid object on 4a9dc053-f7274fae-dd5f-0007e918a05c <FD c0 r0> expected <FD c80 r13>

Sep 3 07:19:29 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:37:54.535 cpu5:4110)FSS: 662: Failed to get object f530 28 2 4a9dc053 f7274fae 700dd5f 5ca018e9 3401404 e 0 0 0 0 0 :Not found

Sep 3 07:19:29 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:37:54.535 cpu0:4096)VMNIX: VMKFS: 2521: status = -2

Sep 3 07:19:29 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:37:54.549 cpu3:4110)WARNING: Fil3: 4153: Unknown object type 281018370

Sep 3 07:19:29 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:37:54.549 cpu3:4110)WARNING: Fil3: 4153: Unknown object type 0

Sep 3 07:19:29 esx02 last message repeated 5 times

Sep 3 07:19:42 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:07.311 cpu4:4112)WARNING: Fil3: 10730: Found invalid object on 4a9dc053-f7274fae-dd5f-0007e918a05c <FD c0 r0> expected <FD c80 r14>

Sep 3 07:19:42 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:07.311 cpu4:4112)FSS: 662: Failed to get object f530 28 3 4a9dc053 f7274fae 700dd5f 5ca018e9 3801404 f 0 0 0 0 0 :Not found

Sep 3 07:19:42 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:07.374 cpu5:4110)World: vm 4601: 1098: Starting world vmware-vmx with flags 4

Sep 3 07:19:44 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:09.982 cpu3:4111)WARNING: Fil3: 10730: Found invalid object on 4a9dc053-f7274fae-dd5f-0007e918a05c <FD c0 r0> expected <FD c80 r16>

Sep 3 07:19:44 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:09.982 cpu3:4111)FSS: 662: Failed to get object f530 28 3 4a9dc053 f7274fae 700dd5f 5ca018e9 4001404 11 0 0 0 0 0 :Not found

Sep 3 07:19:59 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:24.436 cpu1:4109)WARNING: Fil3: 4153: Unknown object type 0

Sep 3 07:19:59 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:24.437 cpu1:4109)WARNING: Fil3: 4153: Unknown object type 0

Sep 3 07:19:59 esx02 last message repeated 3 times

Sep 3 07:20:01 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:26.360 cpu1:4110)WARNING: Fil3: 10730: Found invalid object on 4a9dc053-f7274fae-dd5f-0007e918a05c <FD c0 r0> expected <FD c80 r15>

Sep 3 07:20:01 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:26.360 cpu1:4110)FSS: 662: Failed to get object f530 28 3 4a9dc053 f7274fae 700dd5f 5ca018e9 3c01404 10 0 0 0 0 0 :Not found

Sep 3 07:20:01 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:26.360 cpu0:4096)VMNIX: VMKFS: 2521: status = -2

Sep 3 07:20:05 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:30.959 cpu5:4109)WARNING: Fil3: 4153: Unknown object type -1174114336

Sep 3 07:20:05 esx02 vmkernel: 0:22:38:30.959 cpu5:4109)WARNING: Fil3: 4153: Unknown object type 0

It works find under server 2008. Is there a setting I can try?

[sjbotha]

Has anyone tried the PERC 5/i with ESXi 5 and VT-d enabled?

[BeerHat]

Yes.  And it does NOT work correctly, still.  I've updated the firmware to the latest LSI version, and correctly installed the .vib driver file.. still, no dice.  Darn shame too.  I have a hylafax server i'd like to run using an internal PCI faxmodem.

If anyone has any workarounds/tweakables in esxi in order to get VT-d and the perc's playing well together, I'm all ears.

[sjbotha]

Someone in this thread replaced the Perc 5 with a Perc 6 and then it worked for them.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1826092