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 ESXi 5 will not see LSI Adapter VD's on Supermicro X9SCM-F-O 
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dru2

Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:52 am
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Post ESXi 5 will not see LSI Adapter VD's on Supermicro X9SCM-F-O
I am going insane!

Newegg peeps report installing ESXi 5 to this motherboard, with adapters, ok.

I have tried: ESXi 5 original, and driver rollup ISOs. Installed from cd rom sata and usb cd rom.

Install ESXi 5 to usb flash drive, separate Sata drive. I need it on a simple RAID 1 on the adapter card.

I have tried the following LSI cards with no success getting them to show up either in ESXi installer, or after installing to USB flash or single SATA HD.

LSI 9260-8i
LSI 9240-8i
Dell Perc H200

All of these are on the Vmware HCL. Same problem with each.

All of these devices do show up after install as a pass-thru device. I messed with all the BIOS settings with no change.

No matter what I tweak, the installers for both ZenServer 6 and Windows 2008 R2 see the LSI adapter volume and install direct to it NO PROBLEM. I don't have a 4.1 download to try, have to downgrade license?

I have narrowed it down to the motherboard.

Supermicro X9SCM-F-O. 1155, Xeon E-1230.
The on-board Sata is Cougar point based, with options: disabled, IDE, AHCI, or RAID. (Which I have all tried.) Now RAID has an option of two code bases, Intel or LSI software raid.

I heard elsewhere that sometimes enabling the onboard RAID will help. I thought there could be conflict, but I see absolutely no change.

ESXi sees a cougar point SATA controller and sees individual drives of course. The code base for the software raid is irrelevant.

With the original August ESXi 5 release, some have reported leaving the RAID card out, updating drivers, then putting the card back in.. I tried this too with no luck.

Passthru with VT-d on works fine for all cards. ESXi simply does not recognize the MegaRAID device and VD's.

Goal: have a 8 (ht) core backup EXSi 5 machine that we can Veeam replicate VM's to it, and we can run critical VM's in case our primary ESXi host is down. (Essentials Kit, no vMotion). We need the LSI RAID 9240-8i to work for a large RAID LUN of 8 drives, RAID 50. We need the large LUN size for backups.

Next thoughts:

1. Install ESXi to one of the (RAID1) drives from the onboard sata, then connect to the LSI adapter and "rebuild" a mirrored RAID 1. Then force the computer to boot to that drive. ESXi should boot from itself, right?

2. Manually format the RAID 1 volume as a bootable VMFS, using Linux tools?

3. Install ESXi on another system with the LSI 9240-8i card and drives set, then move it to this and set as boot drive?

4. Return the motherboard for a different one, perhaps an ASUS?

LSI support has been totally awesome; Fred thought only the 9260-8i is supported on ESXi 5. (Not 9240) But I tried the 9260 with same problem.

Help! :| Thank you! - Andrew
Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:31 am
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Post Re: ESXi 5 will not see LSI Adapter VD's on Supermicro X9SCM
Have you looked at the boot logs when you try to install to see what ESXi is doing with the device?

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Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:02 am
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dru2

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Post Re: ESXi 5 will not see LSI Adapter VD's on Supermicro X9SCM
Hi Dave,

I could not google how to look at boot logs for ESXi installer. I cannot find a reference for ESXi installer boot command line options, verbose etc. Do I have to make a USB installable version of ESXi 5 in order to get log persistence?

Below is from a log of ESXi installed on an independent SATA disk:

driver megaraid_sas claimed 0 device

Also, mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 is CD rom and the vmhba 31, 32+ etc is the onboard Sata controller.

I've tried disabling cdrom and onboard completely. Thank you,

Andrew

Code:
2012-02-03T06:03:40.760Z cpu2:2626)Loading module megaraid_sas ...
2012-02-03T06:03:40.762Z cpu2:2626)Elf: 1862: module megaraid_sas has license GPL
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)module heap: Initial heap size: 1048576, max heap size: 43311104
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)vmklnx_module_mempool_init: Mempool max 43311104 being used for module: 31

2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)vmk_MemPoolCreate passed for 256 pages

2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)module heap: using memType 2
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)module heap vmklnx_megaraid_sas: creation succeeded. id = 0x41000bc00000
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)<6>megasas: 00.00.05.34 Mon. May 2 17:00:00 PDT 2011
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)PCI: driver megaraid_sas is looking for devices
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)PCI: driver megaraid_sas claimed 0 device
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)Mod: 4015: Initialization of megaraid_sas succeeded with module ID 31.
2012-02-03T06:03:40.763Z cpu2:2626)megaraid_sas loaded successfully.
2012-02-03T06:03:40.843Z cpu0:2675)WARNING: LinuxSignal: 761: ignored unexpected signal flags 0x2 (sig 17)
2012-02-03T06:03:40.851Z cpu1:2083)NetPort: 1427: disabled port 0x2
2012-02-03T06:03:40.851Z cpu1:2083)Uplink: 5244: enabled port 0x2 with mac 00:25:90:57:86:9e
2012-02-03T06:03:44.851Z cpu2:2626)ScsiClaimrule: 2352: Enabling claimrules for MP plugins.
2012-02-03T06:03:44.851Z cpu2:2626)ScsiPath: 4541: Plugin 'NMP' claimed path 'vmhba0:C0:T0:L0'
2012-02-03T06:03:44.852Z cpu2:2626)ScsiPath: 4541: Plugin 'NMP' claimed path 'vmhba33:C0:T0:L0'
2012-02-03T06:03:44.852Z cpu2:2626)vmw_psp_fixed: psp_fixedSelectPathToActivateInt:479: Changing active path from NONE to vmhba33:C0:T0:L0 for device "Unregistered Device".

2012-02-03T06:03:44.852Z cpu2:2626)VMWARE SCSI Id: Id for vmhba33:C0:T0:L0
0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x35 0x51 0x44 0x32 0x4a 0x34 0x48 0x37 0x53 0x54 0x33 0x37 0x35 0x30
2012-02-03T06:03:44.852Z cpu2:2626)ScsiDeviceIO: 5837: QErr is correctly set to 0x0 for device t10.ATA_____ST3750640AS_________________________________________5QD2J4H7.
2012-02-03T06:03:44.852Z cpu2:2626)ScsiDeviceIO: 6333: Could not detect setting of sitpua for device t10.ATA_____ST3750640AS_________________________________________5QD2J4H7. Error Not supported.
2012-02-03T06:03:44.894Z cpu2:2626)FSS: 4333: No FS driver claimed device 't10.ATA_____ST3750640AS_________________________________________5QD2J4H7:3': Not supported
2012-02-03T06:03:44.920Z cpu2:2626)ScsiDevice: 3121: Successfully registered device "t10.ATA_____ST3750640AS_________________________________________5QD2J4H7" from plugin "NMP" of type 0
2012-02-03T06:03:44.930Z cpu2:2626)ScsiUid: 273: Path 'vmhba0:C0:T0:L0' does not support VPD Device Id page.
2012-02-03T06:03:44.932Z cpu0:2626)VMWARE SCSI Id: Could not get disk id for vmhba0:C0:T0:L0
2012-02-03T06:03:44.932Z cpu0:2626)vmw_psp_fixed: psp_fixedSelectPathToActivateInt:479: Changing active path from NONE to vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 for device "Unregistered Device".
2012-02-03T06:03:44.934Z cpu0:2626)VMWARE SCSI Id: Could not get disk id for vmhba0:C0:T0:L0
2012-02-03T06:03:44.934Z cpu0:2626)ScsiDeviceIO: 6993: Get VPD 80 Inquiry for device "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" from Plugin "NMP" failed. Not supported
2012-02-03T06:03:44.934Z cpu0:2626)ScsiDeviceIO: 7003: Get VPD 83 Inquiry for device "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" from Plugin "NMP" failed. Not supported
2012-02-03T06:03:44.934Z cpu0:2626)ScsiDeviceIO: 5820: Could not detect setting of QErr for device mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0. Error Medium not found.
2012-02-03T06:03:44.934Z cpu0:2626)ScsiDevice: 3121: Successfully registered device "mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0" from plugin "NMP" of type 5
Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:40 am
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vladimirh

Joined: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:10 pm
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Post Re: ESXi 5 will not see LSI Adapter VD's on Supermicro X9SCM
Hi dru2,

I had similar problem with motheboard Supermicro X9SCI-LN4F (bios 1.1a) and raid controller Areca 1880 (LSI chipset), i.e. VMware ESXi 5.0 can see no controller and no raid volume.
In search of cause of this problem and I "tripped" on this KB:
http://faq.areca.com.tw/index.php?view= ... :Q10011112
Mentioned firmware from Areca solved this issue.

Try motheboard from another manufacturer...
Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:26 am
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dru2

Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:52 am
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Location: Denver CO
Post Re: ESXi 5 will not see LSI Adapter VD's on Supermicro X9SCM
Thank you for ideas. I found other thread about this motherboard and issue.

No matter what settings and BIOS version, Ubuntu, XenServer 6 and Windows 2008R2 had zero problems seeing and installing to the storage adapters I had.

LSI 9260-8i
LSI 9240-8i
Dell Perc H200

Stupid ESXi 5 is a pain! Very sensitive. I either got no storage adapter visible, or ESXi installer would freeze at loading megaraid_sas module.

I can see why everyone is staying with 4.1.

I finally got it to work after loading an old motherboard BIOS.

My solution is over here:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1 ... 1038350129
Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:44 pm
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