ESXi 8.0 on DL380 G10 Plus ( MR416i-P ) : How To Manage Raid Controler !

[Sickou]

Hello HPE Community ,

After some long hours of research and try , I don't find any solution about the basic need : Manage Raid Controler  under Esxi for my brand new HPE DL380G10Plus , full compatible HCL ESXi8.0 . 

How do you manage your Raid Controller ? 

- MRSA , isn't available on Esxi , MRSA isn't compatible with VM win64 too.

 - The State of controler is missing in the native interface of Esxi .

Thx if you have a solution for this basic need.

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

MRSA tool is used to configure the MR storage controller, but this tool may not be available for all OS.
Alternatively you should be able to configure the controller using, UEFI System Utilities (storage configuration).

HPE MegaRAID MR Gen10 Controller MRSA tool

HPE MegaRAID Storage Administrator StorCLI for VMware7.0

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002563enw.pdf

Thank You!
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[Sickou · Accepted solution]

Thank you , I'm using StorCli now.

But it's so bad EsXi doesn't avable to check the live status of Raid Controller.... I'll create a script on Esxi shell to auto check the status with StorCli ...

Sickou

[Warning78]

Same problem DL360 Gen10 esxi hp custom imahe  7 u3, unable to ceck raid in esxi web interface.

Need CIM provider? where i can download?

AND the ILO led status not report drive failure (amber led), always green led!!!

I try to remove one disk of raid 1 array and the ILO led is alway green, and in ILO web page al green flag.

I can see an amber flag only in storage section under specific disk.

[Sickou]

Unfortunately , the only software working is StorCli  , all others doesn't work properly ...

[niko206]

@Sickou Hi, which version of STOR-CLi is fully working on ESXi 8.0?

Thank you.

[cpras99]

How did you get storcli installed on the esxi 8 host??

[cpras99]

In the end I was able to get the storcli version for 7.1  installed.  
Had to modify the vib to remove the depends check in the descriptor.xml inside the vib.  If you extract the vib with the "ar" tool and then modify and then re-package it.  Then run the vib install with the no-sig check option it will install storcli.  Happy to have someway to check the status of the array.

[adbpos]

@cpras99 

please share some details about the "ar' tool you mentioned