{"id":589,"date":"2012-08-18T16:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-08-18T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T19:00:12","slug":"manage-intel-rs2bl040-with-esxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Manage Intel RS2BL040 on ESXi 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Setting up a server with one of these RAID Controllers and trying to figure out if there is a management utility. This RoarkH guy has excellent instructions.<\/a> Too bad VMWare communities don’t leave a way for me to thank him with a follow-up question:<\/p>\n

Is there a web-based (or vSphere-based) utility that can somehow connect to this CLI? <\/p>\n

This looks promising: VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation and RWC2 Tips and Tricks<\/a> This document introduces the details of how to install VMware ESXi 5.0 Operating System onto an Intel\u00ae RAID controller and how to use Intel\u00ae RAID Web Console 2 on a client machine to manage the RAID controller remotely.<\/em> (March, 2012)
\nI’ve tried following the instructions, but they reference a vib from intel that doesn’t exist; they must mean to get the vib from LSI? After all this, I can see the raid through vSphere but the RWC2 never finds the server.<\/p>\n

I’m going to copy RoarkH’s instructions here, just in case:<\/p>\n

1. Jan 25, 2012 4:31 PM in response to: RoarkH
\nRe: How To Monitor Drive Health on an Intel RS2BL040 RAID Controller
\nI have solved this myself, I'm posting what I did in case it helps someone else.<\/p>\n

The RS2BL040 is actually a rebranded LSI card, these instructions will probably work for most LSI RAID cards, Intel RAID cards and at least some Dell cards including apparently the Perc 5i.<\/p>\n

First you need the LSI MegaCLI Utility for vmware, it can be found at this link...<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lsi.com\/Search\/Pages\/downloads.aspx?k=megacli&r=os%3D%22AQZWTVdhcmUCb3MBAV4BJA%3D%3D%22<\/a><\/p>\n

I downloaded the newest one, \"VMware - 4.6 - CV\" which includes version 8.00.46 of the MegaCli software. There are two files in the zip archive, a text file with some instructions and the MegaCli file which I uploaded to a folder on my datastore, I then used ssh to log into the ESXi host and changed to the directory I uploaded the file to. The file will need to be made executable (\"chmod 755 MegaCli\").<\/p>\n

The command to check the status of the card is as follows...<\/p>\n

.\/MegaCli -AdpAllInfo -aALL<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this failed complaining about a missing library, libstorelib.so.<\/p>\n

Some more searching brought me to this page...<\/p>\n

http:\/\/vmsysadmin.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/09\/using-perc-5i-with-esxi-5-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In that page there is a link to a place you can download the missing file from which I am including here for convenience...<\/p>\n

http:\/\/db.tt\/aEYFL6CQ<\/a><\/p>\n

I uploaded that file into the same folder containing MegaCli and ran the above command again, everything works as expected, the command spits out a bunch of information about the card. Look for the section labeled \"Device Present\" to see if there have been any drive failures and the Error Counters section for reported errors.<\/code><\/p>\n

Thanks RoarkH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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