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millbull
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‎02-16-2015 05:04 AM

LSI9260-4i: which driver for ESXi5.5U2

Hi everybody,

The LSI website gives 2 links for the driver of the 9260-4i controller:

"The certified driver package 6.606.06.00.1 is downloadable from the vmware web site for

  ESXi 5.5 Legacy driver

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESX55-LSI-SCSI-MEGARAID-SAS-660606001VMW&p...

ESXi 5.5 Native driver Invader only

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI55-LSI-MR3-66061000-1OEM&productId=353

What is best between the legacy driver or the native one ?

thanks for your help.

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JarryG
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‎02-16-2015 05:57 AM

The other one is version 6.606.10.00, released a few days later. I'd prefer to use the latest one...

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millbull
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‎02-16-2015 06:42 AM

is there a difference between legacy and native driver, I mean, is there one better than the other, (since excepted the version number, one is called scsi-megaraid-sas and the other lsi-mr3) ?

In my configuration:

/vmfs/volumes # esxcli software vib list | grep -i sas

scsi-megaraid-sas              6.606.06.00-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820      LSI      VMwareCertified     2015-02-13

scsi-mpt2sas                   14.00.00.00-3vmw.550.1.15.1623387     VMware   VMwareCertified     2015-02-13

scsi-mptsas                    4.23.01.00-9vmw.550.0.0.1331820       VMware   VMwareCertified     2015-02-13

/vmfs/volumes # esxcli software vib list | grep -i mr3

lsi-mr3                        6.606.10.00-1OEM.550.0.0.1391871      LSI      VMwareCertified     2015-02-16

/vmfs/volumes # esxcfg-scsidevs -a | grep -i lsi

vmhba1  megaraid_sas      link-n/a  unknown.vmhba1                          (0:1:0.0) LSI / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS GEN2 Controller

that this means I'm using the legacy version ? and if so, how can I force the use of the newer ? by removing the legacy driver ?

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