RE: PERC 6i and VMWare ESXi

Hi Krishnaprasad,
 Thanks for the reply. I cannot see the datastore at all, if I try
to 'cd' into the respective VM directory via the console, the
console just hangs. It turns out to be a partition issue. I am not
sure how the partition table got corrupted in the first place. I am
still working on this, however based on the entries in the hostd
log, VMWare has the drive geometry wrong...

Elazar

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:53:16 +0000 Krishnaprasad_K <at> Dell.com wrote:
>First of  all We don't support ESX/ESXi on PE1800.
>
>Can you see the datastorage ( LUN you have created on PERC 6i) in
>the
>storage section ? From the VI Client / Virtual Center go to the
>configuration tab and you can see storage section tab. Can you
>browse
>the datastore and see if VM contents are present in that.
>
>If it's there you can add the VMs back to the inventory by right
>clicking the .vmx file ( this is the configuration file for each
>VM)
>
>Thanks,
>Krishnaprasad
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces <at> dell.com] On Behalf Of Elazar
>Broad
>Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:04 AM
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>Subject: PERC 6i and VMWare ESXi
>
>Hi,
> I have a PowerEdge 1800 running VMWare ESXi 3.5, PERC6i with 2 x
>WD 640's in a RAID 1. The machine has been running fine for about
>a
>month or so. Yesterday, after restarting the server, VMWare has
>trouble seeing my virtual machines(it can see the datastore
>though)
>and none of them will start. A quick look at syslog shows the
>following entry:
>
>megasas: MFI FW status 0x19
>
>megaraid_sas.h shows 0x19 as MFI_STAT_LD_LBA_OUT_OF_RANGE. My
>guess
>is that VMWare is attempting to read addresses beyond the upper
>partition boundary. Does anyone have any experience with this, or
>has ever experienced this issue? Is there a way to capture the
>scsi
>packets and take a look at the addresses?
>
>Thanks,
> Elazar
>
>
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