I am pleased to report that as of today the VSAN VCG has been updated to reflect new recommended driver and firmware versions for these controllers, which should resolve the symptoms reported in this thread: VMware Compatibility Guide: vsan
Here are the new recommended versions:
H730 controller series with ESXi 5.5u2
New recommended firmware version: 25.3.0.00016
New recommended driver: megaraid_perc9 version 6.902.73.00-1OEM
H730 controller series with ESXi 6.0
New recommended firmware version: 25.3.0.00016
New recommended driver: lsi_mr3 version 6.606.12.00-1OEM
That is very good news, can you share which issues were resolved specifically?
I had raid controller resets and stalling occuring from the use of a single SATA drive (used only for ESXi scratch and ISO storage) in HBA mode. This stalling would hang or crash hosts in addition to the poorer observed performance while in HBA mode. Are these issues that are resolved in the driver combo above? I currently run this combo but in RAID0 but I would of course be interested in running in HBA for future ease of disk replacement/maintenance.
