(ps: above command is with two dashes not a single dash – wordpress messing up the formatting)Īnd uninstall the hpvsa. What I did to resolve that was disable the vmw-ahci driver with this command:Įsxcli system module set –enabled=false –module=vmw_ahci

In the column ‘drivers’ I saw that it wasn’t using the hpvsa driver that I downgraded, but was using vmw-ahci instead. One issue I’ve found is that when I look under Storage > Adapters, that my hard drives were listed there, but not as RAID drives. It’s just a matter of convincing the hpvsa driver to load properly. If you run into a problem where the RAID arrays are not visible anymore don’t worry, the data is still there. Takes a minute.Įsxcli software vib install -v file:scsi-hpvsa-5.5.86_64.vib -force -no-sig-check -maintenance-mode Install the old driver we just downloaded.Takes a minute.Įsxcli software vib remove -n scsi-hpvsa -f Uninstall the currently installed scsi-hpvsa driver.Copy the file to a location where the installer can find it easily.Ĭp scsi-hpvsa-5.5.86_64.vib /var/log/vmware/.You can also use a program such as WinSCP to copy the file directly from your desktop PC to the ESXi server. Go into /tmp folder so we don't leave a mess.Allow outgoing HTTP requests through the ESXi firewall, to retrieve the necessary file.Įsxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient.Note that all virtual machines must be stopped first.Įsxcli system maintenanceMode set -enable true

Same password as for the web interface / console.

Open an SSH session to your ESXi server installation and log on as root.

You can get it from this official Hewlett Packard Enterprise page here: The problem: Turns out that for some reason the HPVSA driver for ESXi has some issues. The controller works fine even with ESXI 6.7.0 U3.

Hp smart array controller