There are many commands as I said, and I found this page with many example. The status seems to be ok, but I went to enable anyway the cache, the command is: ctrl slot=3 modify dwc=enable forced
Remember is in slot 3, this will be needed in the next commands.Īs I said, my problem seemed to be related to the cache battery, so I went to check its status:
#How to reboot vmware esxi 5 install#
If you want to install only the Raid utility, look for the hpacucli vib file.Īnd I finally reboot the server in order to complete the installation, hopefully for the last time…Īfter reboot, I checked the components were installed correctly:įrom here, let the fun begin! There are many commands you can run on the raid controller by running /opt/hp/hpacucli/bin/hpacucli, I’m going to show you some of them:įirst, I identified the controller. I also installed the utilities to manage the several HP components, since the first one was only the driver. You can restart ESXi from the DCUI (direct console user interface. 6.) When ESX host restarts, then right-click on the ESX Server from the Inventory and click Exit Maintenance Mode. 4.) Enter a reason (if you want) in the reboot server window. I downloaded it and installed in the usual way on my ESXi 5.1 server (even if the package is officially listed for ESXi 5.0…). When complete, right-click on the ESX Server host in the Inventory and click Reboot.
#How to reboot vmware esxi 5 software#
So, since HP has always had management software for their raid controllers available for windows or linux, I went to check if there was some possibilities also for VMware ESXi.įirst, I checked on HP website and there was some promising download: Also, every reboot cycle is really time consuming. My problem however was, I was running on top of this server all my iscsi shared storage, so it was not so easy to poweroff the server to open up the raid card Bios anche check. I was running into performance issues, storage was performing poorly, and I needed to check for usual problems like for example cache battery status, since on a P400 raid card, write back is by default disabled if the battery has a low charge, thus lowering performances to a minimum. In my lab I’m using a Proliant D元80 G5 filled with disk as a storage server, running some VSA on top of the volume I created and formatted with a vmfs filesystem. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 LinkedIn 0 Email - 0 Flares ×