RAID status information ( the vSphere client will display such information for LSI RAID controllers) will not be displayed by the CIM provider.Ĭontent of the RPM package for remote arcconfĪdaptec provides an executable installation file, 86_64.bin, which will install the supplied rpm on RPM-based systems after confirmation of the license. Note: The CIM provider will make configuration and inquiry of an Adaptec RAID controller possible using remote arcconf. Installing the vSphere Installation Bundle on an ESXi 5.0 Host.The VSphere Installation Bundle for the CIM provider will be installed after the ESXi Host has been installed:
Note: If the updated aacraid driver is subsequently installed and VMFS data stores had previously been created, rescanning the controller and the datastore maybe necessary.Creating an Individualized ESXi 5.0 Image using vSphere ESXi Image Builder.
The updated aacraid drivers required can be integrated prior to the installation of the ESXi Host into an individualized ESXi image. VMware vSphere 5 is only available with ESXi.ĮSXi 5.* Installation CIM Provider and aacraid drivers
using putty) and run the following commands: For your convenience here are the commands for easy copy/paste:Įnable SSH access on your host, log in to it (e.g. If you want to update your standalone ESXi host to 5.5 Update 2 then you can use the procedure that I already explained for earlier updates.
How to update your free and/or standalone ESXi host Please note: You only need to update the vSphere Client to the Update 2 version, but not necessarily the host! So you can immediately and safely start taking benefit from this improvement: Here is a direct download link for the vSphere 5.5 Update 2 client. VMware has finally listened to their complaints and reinstated the capability to edit Virtual Hardware Version 10 VMs with the legacy vSphere Client with Update 2! You will still get a warning though that you will only be able to edit version 8 features (see hardcopy at the top of this post). This made all users that do not have vCenter available (or do not like the new Web Client) very unhappy.
When vSphere 5.5 was released the legacy vSphere Client was declared deprecated and you were no longer able to use it to edit the settings of a VM that was upgraded to hardware version 10. Edit Virtual Hardware 10 VMs with the Update 2 legacy vSphere Client!