VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation and RWC2 Tips and Tricks White Paper

ESXi 5.0 Related RAID Operations
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10. Type the command Add-EsxSoftwarePackage –ImageProfile MyProfile
–SoftwarePackage scsi-megaraid-sas
This command is used to add the RAID Controller Driver software package (VIB file) into the
ESXi installation image profile (“MyProfile”). As is shown on the top of the below Figure,
there is a “scsi-megaraid-sas, version 5.34-1vmw.500.0.0.406165”, this is the RAID
Controller Driver software package for 2208 chip based RAID Controller, which is different
from the “scsi-megaraid-sas, version 4.32-1vmw.500.0.0.469512” in Figure 36, and after
this command line, the new scsi-megaraid-sas.vib will cover the previous one, it will run
automatically during the ESXi 5.0 installation to load the RAID Controller driver.
NOTE: If you don’t remove the previous one, the add-EsxSoftwarePackage command will
automatically cover the previous one with the new one. But it is strongly recommended that you
remove the previous RAID Controller driver software package
“scsi-megaraid-sas_4.32-1vmw.500.0.0.469512.vib” before adding the new 2208 chip
based RAID Controller driver software package
“ scsi-megaraid-sas_5.34-1vmw.500.0.0.406165.vib” to the image profile.
You can use the command “Remove-EsxSoftwarePackage –ImageProfile MyProfile
–SoftwarePackage scsi-megaraid-sas” to remove the previous scsi-megaraid-sas file.
Figure 38. Add the RAID Controller Driver Software Package into Image Profile