Greetings,
I have a whitebox server in my test lab with an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8x adapter and two RAID groups configured. Up until a couple days ago, this box was running ESX 3.5u2 just fine. Then I did a fresh install of ESX 3.5u4 and suddenly ESX can't see this storage adapter at all. (Not in the initial CD setup, not after ESX is installed, and not after a rescan.) I've reinstall several times, but no dice. I even tried booting from an older ESX insall CD (build 11026), and its CD setup didn't see it either.
Initially, I thought that the adapter might be bad, but when booting from a DiskDirector CD, I can see all of the RAID groups just fine. Plus, after I pull out the card (or move it to a different slot) and reboot the box, ESX redetects the NICs, so the card's presence/adsence is being detected somewhere.
I've tried digging through the logs, but I'm not really sure what to look for. Here's what seems relevant:
rc: Starting megaraid_sas_ioctl: succeeded
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-2
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-14
cimserver: RawIpmiProvider::initialize: No IPMI Interface. Will not be polling
cimserver: VmHostRaidProviders::VmHostRaidProviders Can't found any controller...
Not really sure what else to try... Any ideas?
