No health info for IBM ServeRaid BR10i after upgrading to ESXi 5

[alphenit]

Hi,
After upgrading my box to ESXi 5 I noticed that the health status is no longer showing information for my (ESXI 5 supported) IBM ServeRaid BR10i:

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=3660&deviceCate...

The card now shows up in Storage Adapters as a LSI 1068E HBA

I read in other topics that with ESXi 5 you need to install custom "vib" drivers to get such information. I can't seem to find the proper driver for this card.
Anyone here with a clue which driver I have to download..?

[AndreTheGiant]

Check on IBM site. Maybe is not yet released.

And also be sure that your BIOS is up-to-date.

[Virtualinfra]

I think before upgrade you were using IBM provided ISO for ESX(i) 4.X

Now you might have installed ISO directly downloaded from VMware, which might not contain all the CIM agents to provide health status.

Contact IBM and get the customized ISO from IBM to install on ESXI host.

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[alphenit]

Well not quite.

I used the VMWare 4.1 original version and upgraded that to version 5. (the card is not plugged into a IBM box so I can't use an IBM iso). (kudos VMWare for the upgrade process which was painless!)

As stated, apparently VMWare is now using hardware vendor provided "vib drivers" for getting the health status of a RAID adapter (in this example).
I can understand the move from VMWare 's perspective since the burden is shifted to the hardware vendors but it will be the customers that end up with systems with version 4 that move to version 5 and get less information because the hardware vendor hasn't done its homework or decided to skip that adapter even though it is on VMWare's HCL! (IBM or LSI in this case).

@Andre

Looking for proper drivers on the IBM site is about as easy as finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow

If somebody finds a workaround for this issue please post it here I'll keep watching the thread..!

Thanks everybody..

[goudkamp74]

I've just got an IBM BR10i and installed ESXi 5.0.0 on a 3 disk 1E volume. Then I installed the right .vib:

http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/MegaRAID%20Common%20Files/VMW-ESX-5.0.0-LSIProvider-500.04.V0.24...

I unziped the file, scp-ed it to the /tmp/ folder of my ESXi installation and issued this command to install it:

esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/vmware-esx-provider-LSIProvider.vib

Rebooted the ESXi server and voilà, health info is availble in the Vsphere Client!

[alphenit]

Thanks for the tip, I'll download the drivers to see what happens...!

[mark_l_zhang]

HI,  Does the driver working?

Mine is LSI Logic/Symbios Logic SAS 1068E, but it does not working for me.