PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

[RAJESH3311]

Dear,

Kindly share a PowerCLI script to find out the Fiber Channel HBA Firmware Version, Driver Version, BIOS version and FCODE version.

Regards

Rajesh

[LucD]

Have a look at Re: Host Hardware info with HBA and nic driver information

[RAJESH3311]

Dear,

Really appriciate your efforts.

Is there any way to get the details as you can see the attachment. We have a requirement to have something like this.

VMHost, HBA, HBA Model, FC Firmware Version, , FC Driver Version, BIOS Version, FCODE Version.

Regards

Rajesh

[LucD]

Did you actually try the script I pointed to ?

As far as I can tell, it has all that information.

If not, let me know which info is missing

[RAJESH3311]

Dear,

Appricite your efforts.

I have run the script and found all the details inside. Is there any way to have the details in a table format so that it is easy to have in exel.

Thanks

Rajesh

[RAJESH3311]

Dear,

Adding to that, my HBA is QLogic, but the script output shows Broadcom. Could you please check the attachments ?

Regards

Rajesh

[LucD]

To save the result to a CSV file, you can use the Export-Csv cmdlet.

Something like this

$report = Get-Datacenter | % {   

      $datacenter=$_ 

      foreach($esx in Get-VMhost -Location $datacenter){ 

        $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esx 

        $nic = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $esx | Select -First 1 | select -ExpandProperty Name 

        $hba =Get-VMHostHBA -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"} |  Select -First 1 |select -ExpandProperty Name 

        Get-VMHostHBA -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"} | 

        Select @{N="Datacenter";E={$datacenter.Name}}, 

                @{N="VMHost";E={$esx.Name}}, 

                @{N="HostName";E={$($_.VMHost | Get-VMHostNetwork).HostName}}, 

                @{N="version";E={$esx.version}}, 

                @{N="Manufacturer";E={$esx.Manufacturer}}, 

                @{N="Hostmodel";E={$esx.Model}}, 

                @{Name="SerialNumber";Expression={$esx.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo |Where-Object {$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq "Servicetag"} |Select-Object -ExpandProperty IdentifierValue}}, 

                @{N="Cluster";E={ 

                    if($esx.ExtensionData.Parent.Type -ne "ClusterComputeResource"){"Stand alone host"} 

                    else{ 

                        Get-view -Id $esx.ExtensionData.Parent | Select -ExpandProperty Name 

                    }}}, 

                Device,Model,Status, 

                @{N="WWPN";E={((("{0:X}"-f $_.NodeWorldWideName).ToLower()) -replace "(\w{2})",'$1:').TrimEnd(':')}}, 

                @{N="WWN";E={((("{0:X}"-f $_.PortWorldWideName).ToLower()) -replace "(\w{2})",'$1:').TrimEnd(':')}}, 

              # @{N="Fnicvendor";E={$esxcli.software.vib.list() | ? {$_.Name -match ".*$($hba.hbadriver).*"} | Select -First 1 -Expand Vendor}}, 

                @{N="Fnicvendor";E={$esxcli.hardware.pci.list() | where {$hba -contains $_.VMKernelName} |Select -ExpandProperty VendorName }}, 

                @{N="fnicdriver";E={$esxcli.system.module.get("fnic").version}}, 

                @{N="enicdriver";E={$esxcli.system.module.get("enic").version}}, 

               # @{N="Enicvendor";E={$esxcli.software.vib.list() | ? {$_.Name -match ".net.*"} | Select -First 1 -Expand Vendor}} 

                 @{N="Enicvendor";E={$esxcli.hardware.pci.list() | where {$nic -contains $_.VMKernelName} |Select -ExpandProperty VendorName }} 

                 #@{N="Enicvendor";E={$esxcli.network.nic.list() | where {$vmnic.name -eq $_.vmnic1} | select -First 1 -ExpandProperty Description }} 

      } 

}

$report | Export-Csv report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Last year QLogic acquired some of the Broadcom ethernet assets.

I suspect you might be seeing the driver provided vendor and the card manufacturer.

[RAJESH3311]

Dear,

Worked fine for the excel, but the Driver version filed found empty, Could you please check the attachment and advice.

Regards

Rajesh

[LucD]

Did you replace 'fnic' and 'enic' with the modules you have on your HW ?

Run the following to get an overview of what PCI devices are present, and to get the correct names.

$esxName = 'MyEsx'

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esxName

foreach($dev in $esxcli.hardware.pci.list()){

    if($dev.ModuleName -ne 'None'){

        $esxcli.system.module.get($dev.ModuleName) |

        Select @{N='Device';E={$dev.DeviceName}},@{N='DeviceClass';E={$dev.DeviceClassName}},Module,Version

    }

}

[RAJESH3311]

Dear,

Please find the attched. I have run the script exactly on Vcenter without making any changes.

Regards

Rajesh

[LucD]

You will have to change 'MyEsx' with the name of your ESXi host/

[RAJESH3311]

Dear ,

Output for the script is attached. Please check.

Regards

Rajesh

[LucD]

Based on that output it looks like you need replace the enic and fnic with elxnet and qlnativefc.

[RAJESH3311]

Excellent.

I got the required details.

Regards

Rajesh

[ryanhulce]

You are a genius!

[touimet]

Luc, once again great script!!  However one critical piece of information that is missing is the firmware version of the HBA.

I know I can get the firmware via SSH by using the following methods:

##  Brocade (BR-xxx)  ##

cd /proc/scsi/bfa

ls -h

cat # | grep Version

##  Qlogic & Emulex  ##

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -a | more

Is there anyway via PowerCli (maybe $esxcli.xxxx ???) to obtain the HBA firmware versions without the use of plink?

Thanks!!!

[LucD]

Afaik, not at this point in time.

The only way I know is through the use of plink.exe (SSH) I'm afraid.

[bvinnu]

looking for guidance on powercli one-liner for retrieving the HBA firmware version ..it can be retrieved from ESxi shell # esxcli –server=”servername or IP” –user=”username” –password”root password” ssacli cmd -q “controller slot=0 show config detail”

Source reference : https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=420496&docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05331132

Another source below  shows he is close to get it , but I m even struck too not able to get the output with powercli #$esxcli.ssacli.cmd('"-q "controller all show status""')

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Operating-System-VMware/Problems-using-Get-ESXCLI-with-HPSSACLI/td-p/6412828

[LucD]

Did you try like this?

If that doesn't work, I advise to ask the question on the HP forum, this is a HP extension, nothing to do with PowerCLI

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost MyEsx

$esxcli.hpssacli.cmd('"-q "controller slot=0 show config detail""')

[hussainbte]

This is providing only the driver version, have any of you guys used this to get firmware version of the HBA?

[LucD]

Have you tried the solution in Re: Host firmware, hba driver, NIC version etc,

It does require SSH access to each ESXi node.

[NeenaJim]

 , Can you please help me on rearranging this output:

I am getting the result 2 times as below. Not sure what parameter can be changed in the script to avoid the repetition. I have rearranged the script just for showing the output only fnic and enic. But getting the result as below.

PS C:\Scripts> Get-Datacenter | % {
$datacenter=$_
foreach($esx in Get-VMhost -Location $datacenter){
$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esx
$nic = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $esx | Select -First 1 | select -ExpandProperty Name
$hba =Get-VMHostHBA -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"} | Select -First 1 |select -ExpandProperty Name
Get-VMHostHBA -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"} |
Select @{N="HostName";E={$($_.VMHost | Get-VMHostNetwork).HostName}},
@{N="fnicdriver";E={$esxcli.system.module.get("nfnic").version}},
@{N="enicdriver";E={$esxcli.system.module.get("nenic").version}}
}
}