Managing LSI SAS in ESXi5 machine remotely

[mlai]

This is a nightmare!  I put the LSI 9260-8i into the ESXi 5 machine and it worked fine.  Installed all the ESXi drivers and the SCIM vibs and the 9260-8i shows up in the ESXi5 just fine.

Now the nightmare starts when trying to manage the LSI 9260-8i remotely.  I had tried installing a fresh W7x64 SP1 on a VM just to install the LSI MSM 11.06.  That machine has nothing but MSM11.06 on it.  Most of the time, when I fire up the MSM, it will not show the vm machine as a host (which it should even without the LSI card in the VM), the other time I get as far as having the ESXi machine showing up as 0.0.0.0.  When I tried to login, MSM will aways say Login Failed: unable to connect to CIMOM server.

I am using root credentials to the ESXi5 machine.  I am pulling my hair out!  All firewalls (including on ESXi5) are disabled.....

Please help!

[DCValentine]

I believe you have not added the HOST entries within the HOST files for both your ESXi Server and your ESXi Virtual Machine on the same ESXi server.  Details to how I was able to manage PERC 6E via Virtual Machine on ESXi host: http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3360.  Also I could only get an OLDER version of the LSI MSM to work for management.

Update the HOST files on both your ESXi server and your Windows Virtual Machine to which you installed the LSI MSM:

ESXi 5.0 Server: "/etc/hosts"

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1      localhost.localdomain  localhost
::1            localhost.localdomain  localhost
192.168.1.159  WinXP.DOMAIN.LOCAL     WinXP

Windows VM w/ LSI MSM installed: "C:/Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts"

#Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97  rhino.acme.com                          # source server
# 38.25.63.10   x.acme.com                              # x client host

192.168.1.100   ESXi-50-LAB.domain.local ESXi-50-LAB    # ESXi Host

[mlai]

Thanks but I was under the impression that this is only necessary for networks without working DNS infrastructure?

Both the VM and ESXi machine can resolve each other using dns lookups…….