How to unload Storage agents only on ESX 3.0.1

[Rob Bohmann]

I have a DRS enabled ESX cluster running on BL 460's with the 7.7 agents installled. After a while CPU0 gets pegged to 100% and will stay there even after all VM's are vmotioned off. The ESX hostd process(es) are using the cpu, but when I unload the HP agents, the hostd process returns to more usual usage patterns (1-20%). The people at vmware said that they think it is the storage agents that are causing this as we connect to a Netapp filer using software initiated ISCSI for our storage. So I am looking for a way to comment out or prevent the storage agents only from loading at startup, preferably by modifying the .conf file if possible.

Looking in the conf file it appears this section would be the correct one to use:

# export CMAAGENTEXCLUDESTR - Agent exclusion on startup
# ex. export CMAAGENTEXCLUDESTR="cmaeventd cmaperfd"
#export CMAAGENTEXCLUDESTR=

When I shut down the agents manually from the esx server console it logged this:
Shutting down Storage Agents (cmastor): cmaeventd cmaidad cmafcad cmaided cmascsid cmasasd
Shutting down Storage Event Logger (cmaeventd):[ OK ]
Shutting down IDA agent (cmaidad):[ OK ]
Shutting down FCA agent (cmafcad):[ OK ]
Shutting down IDE agent (cmaided):[ OK ]
Shutting down SCSI agent (cmascsid):[ OK ]
Shutting down SAS agent (cmasasd):[ OK ]

So if I include just cmastor in the section above like this "export CMAAGENTEXCLUDESTR="cmastor"

would that work, or do I need to list each one individually, or do something else ?

[Rob Bohmann]

Anyone know how to disable the storage agents on startup?