extreme slow ESXi-boot when ~ 70 LUNs visible

[chakoe]

Hi all,

we´ve got some ESXi 5.1.0 8( Build 2323236 ) which need ~ 2 hrs for a simple reboot. The boot screen stops at " vmw_vaaip_hds loaded successfully " and hangs

for ~ 2 hrs...

It is an HP DL360 Gen9 , 2 x Intel E5-2650 v3 / 256 GB RAM / DualPort HBA HP82q ( qLogic ) . The ESX sees 74 LUNs via multiple paths...

any idea regarding the slow boot time? If i deactivate the HBA in the BIOS, the ESX boots up in a normal way..

Thx in advance

Chakoe

[rcporto]

You're using any virtual machine with Microsoft Cluster using RDM disks ? If yes, see: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time t...