Today’s post is nothing revolutionary I’m afraid and is more for my own reference than anything else. I couldn’t recommend this VMware article more: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2137854 . It comes with a video too.
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Installing VMWare SCSI Drivers. Installing VMWare SCSI Drivers. Skip navigation Sign in. This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. Watch Queue Queue. Foundation Server, Small Business Server (including SBS 2011), or Storage Server. Extended attributes, registry hive files, Windows or any system or driver pagefile. Server actively replicating data. Chapter 5 Files and folders migration. Disk controller—VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controllers are not supported.
I had to update the network adapter and the raid controller drivers
Before you start:
- Check / Enable SSH using vSphere client:
- Select the host, click the Configuration tab, and click Security Profile in the Software panel.
- In the Services section, click Properties.
- Select ESXi Shell and click Options
- Change the ESXi Shell options (Start/Start and stop with host).
- OK.
- Check full datastore path:
- Log in as root to the ESXi console through SSH.
- Run esxcli storage filesystem list
- Identify the datastore you are going to use for your drivers and record the mount point path ( I am using the ISO datastore so /vmfs/volumes/4e024984-a6c3ca91-a8bf-b499baa912d9 is what I need):
Install:
- Download drivers from VMware.
- Extract the contents of the async driver zip file.
- Identify the
offline-bundle.zipfile(s). - Extract the contents of the
offline-bundle.zipfile(s). - Identify the
async-driver.vibfile(s). - Log in to the ESXi host using the vSphere Client with administrator privileges, such as root.
- Using Datastore Browser, upload the
async-driver.vibfile(s) to an ESXi host’s datastore. - Enter the host into maintenance mode. (This means either shutting down or migrating all VMs on that host.)
- Log in as root to the ESXi console through SSH.
- Run this command to install drivers from the VIB file:
esxcli software vib install –v /path/async-driver.vibFor example: esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/55a47a7f-11c62c90-711e-d8b190a2deb2/LSI_bootbank_scsi-megaraid-sas_6.606.06.00- - Restart the ESXi host.
- To confirm if the VIB is installed successfully, run this command to check the version:
esxcli software vib list | grep -i vib_name
For example: vib list | grep -i scsi-megaraid-sas - Exit maintenance mode.
When VMware released ESXi 4.0, they officially supported booting your OS drive from a paravirtual SCSI controller. Comparing to BusLogic and LSI Logic, Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) controllers are high-performance storage controllers that can result in greater throughput and lower CPU utilization. However, since Windows doesn’t have native driver for the VMware PVSCSI adapter, you will find that a paravirtualized hard disk can’t be recognized during Windows installation or booting from WinPE.
To fix this problem you need to grab the pvscsi driver and add it to your WinPE bootdisk, or load the driver on the fly. But it’s not easy to extract pvscsi boot floppy images from VMware ESXi. Lucikly I came across a floppy disk image called pvscsi_windows2008.flp under my VMware Workstation installation directory: C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware WorkstationResources.
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For your convenience, we load the pvscsi-Windows2008.flp image in our virtual floppy drive and then archive the setup files in both .iso and .zip formats. Below you can download pvscsi driver for VMware Paravirtual SCSI in different formats:
- Floppy disk image: Click here
- ZIP archive: Click here
- ISO image: Click here
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