ESXI 5 CCISS DRIVER

I did this by running: I had managed to run P on ESXi 5. Andreas Peetz September 29, at 4: In the case of kernels with cciss and hpsa drivers which do have overlapping sets of supported controllers, by default, cciss will claim these devices if it is loaded prior to hpsa which it normally will be. The following list of controllers are supported by cciss on distributions based on kernels before 2.

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You may be out of luck. HP does not provide an Online version of this tool eesxi VMware ESXi, so expanding a local RAID array can only be done with this Offline version which requires a downtime of the host for the whole duration of the expansion.

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Debian package only builds binary cciss module. So far, I haven't had any luck duplicating this problem. Your distribution may cdiss. The function prints a message then retries the command that returned with a unit attention. You have to check "don't check drive sizes" in advanced mode, otherwise it will yell at you for have a smaller drive.

This article resolved my issue. This new driver will support new Smart Ezxi products going forward, and the cciss driver will eventually be deprecated. The hpsa driver is available in the kernel. Anonymous February 23, at The current list of supported controllers for hpsa: Andreas Peetz March 12, at 9: Fixed race condition that could show up during driver init. Look inside the script to find out where these lock files are created and remove rsxi before calling it again.

I'm using clonezilla to an external 2 TB drive.

VMware Front Experience: How to run the HP Online ACU CLI for Linux in ESXi 4.x

Am I just unable to use the datastore on a usb drive? Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. I have the command output here: Thanks, you made my day!

Added dynamic outstanding command turning on a per controller basis.

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Partition table read from device mpx. Do you also have a SmartArray controller in the box? Use at your own risk, no detailed testing was conducted. The HP build adds array and disk monitoring to the base package. When I show config I get: Expanding an array as I speak.

Final Solution So after much gnashing of teeth, it was fairly simple to solve. It reports any status changes, like failing disks, to the 55 and optionally to a remote host using SNMP traps. This is simply because making the switch is somewhat complex and it is easy to make a mistake or forget something and get your system into an unbootable state.