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Garik86
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ESXi 6.5 and Dell Perc H310

Hi friends. I have some problem with ESXi 6.5 host and Dell HBA 6Gbit adapter.

My test lab: Dell R620, Perc H310 Full adapter, flashing as HBA 6Gbit P20 - IT Firmware

1TB SSD SATA 5 disk

ESXi host see only one disk, esxcli storage core device list show only boot flash and one disk.

Centos 7.5 live cd detect all 5 disks.

what do you think about it?

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daphnissov
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First of all, that's an unsupported flashing if I recall. Second, that's a SAS controller and SATA drives don't always work properly with them. You may need to get some SAS drives instead.

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Garik86
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dmesg | grep sas  ->

PCI: driver mpt2sas is looking for devices

mpt2sas0: setting logging_level(0x00000000)

mpt2sas0: 64 BIT PCI BUS DMA ADDRESSING SUPPORTED.

mpt2sas0: MSI-X vectors supported: 1, no of cores: 32, max_msix_vectors: -1 mpt2sas0-msix0: PCI-MSI-X enabled: IRQ 18 mpt2sas0: iomem(0x00000000d0ff0000), mapped(0x0x41001cf40000), size(65536) mpt2sas0: ioport(0x000000000000bc00), size(256)

mpt2sas0: _base_get_ioc_facts: IOC_STATE(0x22000000)

mpt2sas0: _base_get_ioc_facts: failed going to ready state  (ioc_state=0x20000000)

mpt2sas0: sending diag reset !! mpt2sas0: diag reset: SUCCESS

mpt2sas0: Allocated physical memory: size(1416 kB) mpt2sas0: Current Controller Queue Depth(595), Max Controller Queue Depth(1720)

mpt2sas0: Scatter Gather Elements per IO(128)

mpt2sas0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.39.02.00)

mpt2sas0: Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA: Vendor(0x1000), Device(0x0072), SSVID(0x1028), SSDID(0x1F1C)

mpt2sas0: Protocol=(Initiator), Capabilities=(Raid,TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ2018-12-08T22:01:07.497Z cpu17:66326))

mpt2sas0: sending port enable !!

mpt2sas0: host_add: handle(0x0001), sas_addr(0x5b8ca3a0e79ac000), phys(8)

mpt2sas0: expander_add: handle(0x0009), parent(0x0001), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abff), phys(22)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xa with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xb with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xc with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xd with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xe with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xf with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x10 with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x11 with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x12 with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x13 with try_count=1

mpt2sas0: port enable: SUCCESS

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xe with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:0:0 :: SATA: handle(0x000e), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abee), phy(14), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xa with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:1:0 :: SATA: handle(0x000a), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abe4), phy(4), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xb with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:2:0 :: SATA: handle(0x000b), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abe5), phy(5), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xc with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:3:0 :: SATA: handle(0x000c), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abe6), phy(6), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xd with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:4:0 :: SATA: handle(0x000d), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abe7), phy(7), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0xf with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:5:0 :: SATA: handle(0x000f), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abef), phy(15), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x10 with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:6:0 :: SATA: handle(0x0010), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abf0), phy(16), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x11 with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:7:0 :: SATA: handle(0x0011), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abf1), phy(17), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x12 with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:8:0 :: SATA: handle(0x0012), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abf2), phy(18), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x13 with try_count=1 Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:9:0 :: SATA: handle(0x0013), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abf3), phy(19), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

PCI: driver mpt2sas claimed device 0000:41:00.0

PCI: driver mpt2sas claimed 1 device

Mod: 4972: Initialization of mpt2sas succeeded with module ID 4154. mpt2sas loaded successfully.

ESXi host found all 10 disk, but show only 1.

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Garik86
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I found some error in log file:

2018-12-08T22:01:15.137Z cpu17:66326)<6>Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:6:0 :: SATA: handle(0x0010), sas_addr(0x500056b37789abf0), phy(16), device_name(0x0000000000000000)

2018-12-08T22:01:15.137Z cpu17:66326)<6>Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:6:0 :: SATA: enclosure_logical_id(0x500056b36789abff), slot(1)

2018-12-08T22:01:15.137Z cpu17:66326)<6>Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:6:0 :: atapi(n), ncq(y), asyn_notify(n), smart(y), fua(y), sw_preserve(y)

2018-12-08T22:01:15.137Z cpu17:66326)<6>Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:6:0 :: serial_number(FF1807890C3F04286748)

2018-12-08T22:01:15.137Z cpu17:66326)<6>Fusion MPT SAS Host:2:0:6:0 :: qdepth(32), tagged(1), simple(1), ordered(0), scsi_level(7), cmd_que(1)

2018-12-08T22:01:15.137Z cpu17:66326)<6>mpt2sas0: Get SATA identify successfully for handle=0x11 with try_count=1

2018-12-08T22:01:15.138Z cpu17:66326)WARNING: ScsiUid: 411: vmhba1:C0:T7:L0: NAA identifier type has an unknown naa value of 0x0

2018-12-08T22:01:15.138Z cpu17:66326)ScsiUid: 180: Failed to create uid for path vmhba1:C0:T7:L0: Failure

2018-12-08T22:01:15.138Z cpu17:66326)ScsiScan: 1206: Path 'vmhba1:C0:T7:L0' : No standard UID: Failure. ANSI version 'SCSI-3 SPC4' (0x6).

2018-12-08T22:01:15.138Z cpu17:66326)VMWARE SCSI Id: Id for vmhba1:C0:T7:L0

0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x50 0x61 0x74 0x72 0x69 0x6f

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