esxi 5.1 perc 5/i problems

[dellesxi]

Hi,

I am running esxi 5.1 on dell t3500. I am attempting to add perc5/i card as raid controller.

First Try

1. Installed card with 5x firmware (original dell) built the raid. (raid 0 with two identical drives)

2. esxi boots fine, I added the virtual volume as storage, tried to upload a file and ended up with io error.

second try

1. Flashed the card with latest LSI fw 7x, built same raid.

2. esxi boots fine, I added the raid volume as storage, tried to upload someting, ended up with io error AND ddatastore disappeared from storage list.

3. I added up again, tried to upload again, same error.

third try was completly same, except the pin 5-6 trick. I taped the 5-6 for smbus signal issue... no luck.

When I checked the console I saw couple lines of "unable to name lun...."

I assume perc5 should work fine with my server. Is that anything that I am missing. Can someone help me with this issue.

any help will be appreciated.

[dellesxi]

i discovered that perc5 is  a rebranded lsi 8480e.

I wen to their site downloaded the lates driver installed on esxi host.

~ # esxcli software vib list
Name                           Version                               Vendor  Acc             eptance Level  Install Date
-----------------------------  ------------------------------------  ------  ---             -------------  ------------
lsiprovider                    500.04.V0.34-0006                     LSI     VMw             areAccepted    2013-02-28

but under storage adapter still shows as perc and still io problems. how do i know that the driver i installed correctly associated with perc5 card.

thanks

[dellesxi]

Installed win7 just to make sure the card and raid is OK. Looks like everything is OK. Raid is stable and fully recognized by windows 7. Also there is no IO problems or whatsoever.

i reinstalled esxi and same problem, here is he screenshot of the log.

~ # tail -f /var/log/vmkernel.log
2013-02-28T13:12:32.139Z cpu6:4977)FSS: 4972: No FS driver claimed device 'control': Not supp                                      orted
2013-02-28T13:12:32.160Z cpu6:4977)FSS: 4972: No FS driver claimed device 'mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:                                      L1': Not supported
~ # -02-28T13:12:32.173Z cpu6:4977)VC: 1547: Device rescan time 20 msec (total number of devi                                      ~ # 😎
~ # -02-28T13:12:32.173Z cpu6:4977)VC: 1550: Filesystem probe time 71 msec (devices probed 8                                       ~ # )
~ # tail -f /var/log/vmkernel.log
2013-02-28T13:12:32.139Z cpu6:4977)FSS: 4972: No FS driver claimed device 'control': Not supported
2013-02-28T13:12:32.160Z cpu6:4977)FSS: 4972: No FS driver claimed device 'mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L1': Not supported
2013-02-28T13:12:32.173Z cpu6:4977)VC: 1547: Device rescan time 20 msec (total number of devices 😎
2013-02-28T13:12:32.173Z cpu6:4977)VC: 1550: Filesystem probe time 71 msec (devices probed 8 of 😎
2013-02-28T13:12:34.150Z cpu1:4097)LVM: 13024: One or more LVM devices have been discovered.
2013-02-28T13:12:52.802Z cpu7:4103)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124007a3040, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L1" on path "vmhba32:C0:T0:L1" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0. Act:NONE
2013-02-28T13:12:52.802Z cpu7:4103)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124007a3040) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x166f from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba32:C0:T0:L1" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
2013-02-28T13:12:52.803Z cpu2:4098)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124007a3040, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba37:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba37:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2013-02-28T13:12:52.803Z cpu2:4098)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124007a3040) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1670 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba37:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-02-28T13:13:17.587Z cpu6:6069)WARNING: UserLinux: 1331: unsupported: (void)