Problems with DirectPath RAID Controller

[irise]

Hi everyone,

i've got two servers with S2600GZ and lsi9266-4i

it runs esxi 5.5 U1 from an internal ssd

this ssd is a datastore for a linux vm (Open-E, latest release)

on esxi i enabled directpath for the 9266

in vm settings of my linux vm i attached the pci device

the vm boots from an vmdk hdd from the ssd datastore on the onboard raid controller

as storage unit i want to use the 9266

as i boot the vm it comes up, but the megasas driver says the following:

root@dss48128522:~# dmesg | grep mega

[ 19.533015] megasas: 06.703.11.00 Mar. 27, 17:00:00 PDT 2014

[ 19.533035] megasas: 0x1000:0x005b:0x1000:0x9269: bus 11:slot 0:func 0

[ 19.533404] megasas: Waiting for FW to come to ready state

[ 19.533407] megasas: FW in FAULT state!!

[ 19.533408] megasas: FW restarted successfully from Kdump..!

[ 49.487224] megasas: Waiting for FW to come to ready state

[ 49.487231] megasas: FW in FAULT state!!

root@dss48128522:~#

does anyone have an idea how to get this running?

cheers,

roland

[ramkrishna1]

Hi

Welcome to communities.

please share your kernel information

The kernel obviously tries to intialise the card, but fails

[irise]

here are all the vmware logs

i can't get onto console of the open-e appliance

the information shared in my first post where taken from a support answer of an open-e supporter    

[Open-E]

I saw this post with the same "megasas: FW in FAULT state!!" and he was able to resolve it.

How do I get a localy attached RAID-Array into a Linux-VM - vSphere 5.1

Also he points out this post for the performance issue.

RDM mapping of local SATA storage for ESXi | David Warburton