The MSDOS_Windows package is the only zip file that contains the firmware and BIOS packages 2118.bin is the firmware, mptsas2.rom is the BIOS file. Updating a LSI 2308 Card on ESXi 5.5ĭownload the ESXi LSI firmware/BIOS installer from here: ĭownload the LSI firmware/BIOS installer readme from here: ĭownload the v18 firmware / BIOS from the MSDOS package (9207_4i4e_Package_P18_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows) here: Below are the steps I took to update my LSI controllers from v14 to v18.
After updating the firmware and rebooting the system the drives were recognized and could be used by VSAN. Updating the LSI firmware is a simple process and can be accomplished from an ESXi 5.5 U1 server but isn’t very well documented. So we set about updating LSI 2308 firmware. However our new LSI SAS controllers didn’t come with the firmware mandated by the VSAN HCL (they had v14 and the HCL specifies v18) and didn’t recognize the attached drives. Recently, we were performing some tests with VMware’s VSAN and due to some performance issues we were having with the AHCI controllers on our servers we needed to revise our environment to add some LSI SAS 2308 controllers and attach our SSD and HDDs to the LSI card. We do quite a bit of virtualization and storage validation and performance testing in the Taneja Group Labs ( ). I hope this will help others in the future, I know it will help me as I was about to look at the exact same for my VSAN environment, thanks for sharing this Tom! He shared the procedure with me as unfortunately it wasn’t well documented. Verify that the host is equipped with NVIDIA ConnectX (Mellanox) adapter.I received an email this week from one of my readers / followers on twitter who had gone through the effort of upgrading his LSI controller firmware.
Log into ESXi vSphere Command-Line Interface with root permissions.ģ. Supported NICs / Firmware: Recommended firmware versions you can find here. Device ID: For the latest list of device IDs, please visit NVIDIA website.Ĥ. Installer Privileges: The installation requires administrator privileges on the target machine.ģ. A server platform with an adapter card based on one of the following NVIDIA ConnectX®-4/5 PCI Express Adapter Cards ( Ethernet, VPI) devices.Ģ. vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examplesġ.How-to: Firmware update for NVIDIA ConnectX-5/6 adapter on VMware ESXi 6.5 and above. NVIDIA OFED (MLNX_OFED) ESXi Ethernet Driver.This is a How To that shows how to install and test the NVIDIA ConnectX-5/ConnectX-6 NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7/7.0 on single host, and perform basic initial configuration steps to enable the driver by using ESXi cli interface.
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