Hi all,
I have installed ESXi 5.1.0 build 799733 including driver for adaptec 6405 SAS RAID controller, version 1.2.1-29900. I have two SAS-SSD installed as RAID-1, I want to use as repository for ISO images as well as RAM buffer (hence the SSD).
First of all, the SSD are listed as non-ssd in the vSphere client, probably a consequence of using the RAID adapter. However, I also get heaps of errors in the vmkernel.log:
2013-08-04T04:15:05.222Z cpu2:8194)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x85 (0x4124003fb980, 9347) to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2013-08-04T04:15:05.222Z cpu2:8194)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124003fb980) 0x85, CmdSN 0xb4 from world 9347 to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-08-04T04:15:05.222Z cpu2:8194)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124003fb980) 0x4d, CmdSN 0xb5 from world 9347 to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-08-04T04:15:05.334Z cpu2:8194)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124003fb980, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" on path "vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x7 D:0x2 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:EVAL
2013-08-04T04:15:05.334Z cpu2:8194)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe:237:NMP device "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" state in doubt; requested fast path state update...
2013-08-04T04:15:05.334Z cpu2:8194)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124003fb980) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1222 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" failed H:0x7 D:0x2 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-08-04T04:15:05.664Z cpu2:8194)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124003fb980) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1223 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" failed H:0x7 D:0x2 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-08-04T04:18:20.650Z cpu4:8196)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124014ed780, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba36:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba36:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2013-08-04T04:18:20.650Z cpu4:8196)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124014ed780) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1224 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba36:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-08-04T04:18:20.757Z cpu2:8194)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124014ed780, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" on path "vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x7 D:0x2 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:EVAL
2013-08-04T04:18:20.757Z cpu2:8194)WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDeviceProbe:237:NMP device "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" state in doubt; requested fast path state update...
2013-08-04T04:18:20.757Z cpu2:8194)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124014ed780) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1225 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba2:C3:T0:L0" failed H:0x7 D:0x2 P:0x0 Possible sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
2013-08-04T04:23:20.654Z cpu18:8210)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2319: Cmd 0x1a (0x4124014ed780, 0) to dev "mpx.vmhba36:C0:T0:L0" on path "vmhba36:C0:T0:L0" Failed: H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0. Act:NONE
2013-08-04T04:23:20.654Z cpu18:8210)ScsiDeviceIO: 2316: Cmd(0x4124014ed780) 0x1a, CmdSN 0x1226 from world 0 to dev "mpx.vmhba36:C0:T0:L0" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x20 0x0.
and so on and so forth. My log is spammed with those messages.
I am planning of attaching iSCSI storage to hold the VM guests, however, at this point I have nothing else attached and no guests running on the host. It is a plain ESXi 5.1 installation with nothing going on. Can you please help me debug this?
Cheers
Fritze