Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration Scsi.UWConflictRetries fails

[jmedd]

I'm trying to amend the ESXi 4.0 Advanced Setting Scsi.UWConflictRetries value with Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration from its default value of 1000 to the min value 80 (because of this issue http://www.vstable.com/tag/slow/) . Works fine in the GUI and I can retrieve the value with

Get-VMHost test03 | Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -Name Scsi.UWConflictRetries

However, when I try to set it with:

Get-VMHost test03 | Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -Name

Scsi.UWConflictRetries -Value 80 (or in fact any value within the permissable range)

I get the following error:

scsi.uwconflictretries' is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characters permitted

Any ideas?

[RvdNieuwendijk]

Jonathan,

the problem might depend on the version of ESXi 4.0 you are running. Because I had no problem with this command in connection with an ESXi 4.0 update 2 server. See the screen output in the attachment.

Regards, Robert

[jmedd]

OK, I went back to my original server which is 4.0 U2 and I had typed

scsi.uwconflictretries

changing this to the below made it work, so looks like it might be case sensitive

Scsi.UWConflictRetries

For completeness I tried it on other hosts both 4.0 U1 and U2 and it worked fine on either update version.

Thanks!