Moving HBA new vmhbax number. Need to change...

[phowarth]

I just moved an HBA card in an HP45p Blade to the secondary motherboard. Now when I look in VC 2.0 my vmhba's look as follows.

Before Move:

vmhba0 (Raid Controller)

vmhba1 (Fiber HBA 1)

vmhba2 (Fiber HBA 2)

After Move:

vmhba3 (Raid Controller)

vmhba4 (Fiber HBA 1)

vmhba5 (Fiber HBA 2)

Vmware think's I added another controller and incremented the numbers. How do I set them back to the original numbers?

Thanks

Pete

[bouke]

Well, this should not happen but you can edit:

/etc/vmware/esx.conf

You will need to edit the lines like:

/device/004:00.0/vmkname = "vmhba0"

/device/008:03.0/vmkname = "vmhba1"

Just do a search on 'vmkname' of even better: 'vmhba'

Change it to your liking and reboot you ESX server... Should work.

[boydd]

Make sure to make a backup of this file before you make the changes You may also want to try running "kudzu" to see if that straightens it out for you.

DB

[Texiwill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You will also have to update the esx_checksum.conf file or the change may not last a reboot, or VC may not pick up the change.

run 'md5sum esx.conf'

and update the appropriate line of the file with the results. Do not forget to update the lastRDRefresh line as well.

Editing esx.conf is no longer easy.

Best regards,

Edward