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GaelV
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Need help for ESXi 5.5 booting slower due to SCSI Reservation Conflict

Hi,

I currently update one of my ESXi in 5.5 U3 build 4345813.

Its in a vCenter and works well but it still has an issue when rebooting, it takes time (~10min) for booting, it is stuck at " vmw_satp_alua loaded successfully"...


So i have checked the log and see  a lot of :


2016-11-15T08:55:09.504Z cpu5:32794)lpfc: lpfc_scsi_cmd_iocb_cmpl:2057: 1:(0):3271: FCP cmd x1a failed <0/32> sid x0b0100, did x0b0400, oxid xffff SCSI Reservation Conflict -

2016-11-15T08:55:09.505Z cpu5:32794)lpfc: lpfc_scsi_cmd_iocb_cmpl:2057: 1:(0):3271: FCP cmd x1a failed <0/37> sid x0b0100, did x0b0400, oxid xffff SCSI Reservation Conflict -

2016-11-15T08:55:19.503Z cpu5:32967)lpfc: lpfc_taskmgmt:3560: 1:(0):3267 Task Mgmt Abort - IO not found on <3:4> for cmd serial number x1300, skip_abts 0

2016-11-15T08:55:19.517Z cpu5:32794)ScsiDeviceIO: 2369: Cmd(0x412e803de800) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1300 from world 0 to dev "naa.50002ac1290098a4" failed H:0x5 D:0x0 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x0.

I've tried to fix it with the KB 1016106 by using "esxcli storage core device setconfig -d naa.id --perennially-reserved=true" for most of my RAW LUN

but the problem isn't fixed with that.

Does someone have an idea about it  ?

Regards,

Gael

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dmeyner22
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What hardware is ESXi running on?  Rack server, Blade, etc..  What ISO did you use?

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GaelV
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Excuse me for forgetting.

It's running on a HP ProLiant DL360 G7. I used "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0-U3b.x86_64.iso" + last patch released "ESXi550-201609001.zip"

I didn't found a custom hp/vmware iso.

Else i did the same configuration(not the same serveur but the same iso+patch..) on another ESXi and it's perfect, i mean i get no issues.

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dmeyner22
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The base image won't provide updated drivers on your server.  You can also check compatibility VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search of your I/O devices with the current ESXi version you are running and get the latest verified drivers.

There are custom images provided by HP/VMware

VMware vSphere 5: Private Cloud Computing, Server and Data Center Virtualization

You should also do firmware and driver upgrades

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=4091411&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4166

Hope this  helps.

GaelV
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I already used the HP Service Pack Pro Liant before upgrading to the 5.5 so i think it's ok.

So, first i'm gonna try to use the Custom iso then check if my issues still be.

By the way, do you know if it's right to use last patch released with a custom iso or not ?

Thanks ! Smiley Happy

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dmeyner22
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As long as vCenter is at the same or higher patch level.   You typically want to keep everything consistent.

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timweaver23
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GaelV
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Thank you both of you, i didn't use the use but it seems interesting for me for automatic reservation, really thank you.

Finally i found the solution, as i have an HP3PAR Storage, i looked into the documentation and found that i need to set these values : queue-full-threshold 4 --queue-full-sample-size 32 for each devices (naa.xxxxxxx) (the command is : esxcli storage core device set --device devicename --queue-full-threshold 4 --queue-full-sample-size 32;"

I did it after using the HP Custom iso and it works normally, even faster than usual.

So it's ok now, thank you again for helping Smiley Happy

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