VSAN-Troubleshooting-Reference-Manual

Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Reference Manual – Virtual SAN
Appendix A: Useful HP Utilities
hpssacli utility
While this utility does not come by default on ESXi hosts, it does come pre-bundled
if you deploy your ESXi hosts with the ESXi 5.5 U2 HP OEM image that contains,
among other things, the hpssacli utility. This tool can be extremely useful for
monitoring and troubleshooting issues with your HP storage controller and disk
devices. While this appendix is not all-inclusive, it does contain some very useful
commands that a Virtual SAN and vSphere administrator could leverage.
For a complete list of commands and their usage, please refer to the official HP
documentation on the topic:
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04123772.pdf
Let’s begin by checking to see if the appropriate software is installed. Here is a list of
all HP VIBs that come pre-installed on their OEM image:
~ # esxcli software vib list | grep -i Hewlett
char-hpcru 5.5.6.6-1OEM.550.0.0.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
char-hpilo 550.9.0.2.3-1OEM.550.0.0.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hp-ams 550.10.0.0-18.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hp-build 5.76.36-1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hp-conrep 5.5.0.1-0.0.7.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hp-esxi-fc-enablement 550.2.1.8-1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hp-smx-provider 550.03.06.00.23-1198610 Hewlett-Packard VMwareAccepted 2014-09-16
hpbootcfg 5.5.0.02-00.00.11.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hpnmi 550.2.3.5-1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hponcfg 5.5.0.4.4-0.3.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hpssacli 2.0.23.0-5.5.0.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
hptestevent 5.5.0.01-00.01.4.1198610 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
scsi-hpdsa 5.5.0.12-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
scsi-hpsa 5.5.0.74-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Hewlett-Packard VMwareCertified 2014-09-16
scsi-hpvsa 5.5.0-88OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Hewlett-Packard PartnerSupported 2014-09-16
So there are quite a few VIBs installed as one can clearly see. The VIBs that we are
interested in are the ones that add additional namespaces to ESXCLI on the ESXi
hosts. By simply running the esxcli command, we can see some new namespaces
that we would typically not find on an ESXi host built from the standard VMware
images.
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