Good evening,
For days have I been trying to get the ESXi 8 specific versions of the LSA, LWA and Storcli2 software to work in several servers that have LSI 9361-8i MegaRaid controllers or 3008 based HBA's (in vSAN Nodes) to work. All hosts run 8.0 U2
The firmware on the controllers and HBA's is current, yet Storcli2 says: number of controllers found = 0
I went through all the documentation, installed it correctly, making sure that the slpd and wbem daemons are running, did the "Increasing the Memory Limit of the Host Hardware RAID" and the "provMemOveride:hhrc=100" thing etc. etc.
The installations work. The integration of storcli2 into esxcli works fine. But it can't find any of the controllers in any of the servers.
LSA in Windows also does not work. Installed it in Gateway mode, enabled HTTPS, all good. I can discover all the ESXi Servers and all that. But when I login to an ESXi server, doesn't matter which one, I always get the dreaded "repository not initialized" error. I know that the communication with the ESXi Server work because when I type a wrong password for root, it complains that it cannot login.
The documentation is of poor quality. Tons of readme files in all kinds of subfolders, some with completely wrong information (in one LWA for ESXi 8 Zip-file, the readme explains how to install the Emulex FC card stuff....)
The instructions for "Increasing the Memory Limit of the Host Hardware RAID" is also wrong. It says to edit /etc/sfcd/sfcd.cfg file and add a line "provMemOveride: hhrc=100" to it (yes there is an incorrect space between : and hhrc as there should be no space. However, editing the sfcd.cfg file this way has not worked anymore since 7.0 U2 !! The solution is this: "esxcli system wbem set --rp-override="hhrc=100"
When you, at the moment of writing, want to download the "latest LWA for ESXi" you will find the LSA for Windows in the downloaded ZIP file. WFT???
It's a mess. I have tried several versions of everything as with LSI, sometimes an older version works better (or even at all).
The LWA Software on ESXi also continually uses 100% CPU of one Core/Thread. On all servers (and I have several types). This is a known issue but I can't find a fix for it.
Conflicting information, outdated information, downright false information, it's a nightmare and it still does not work over here.
Some folks got it to work on ESXi 7 but I cannot find a working recipe for ESXi 8.0 to 8.0 U2 (and some readme file somewhere, states that 8.0 U2 is supported).
In the olden days, with LSI SAS2 controllers (RAID and HBA) and ESXi 6.x and 7.x I never had such problems. Installed it without issues so many times I lost count.
My question to the community is this: has anyone gotten storcli2, LWA and LSA to work with ESXi 8.0 <any version> ?
