The following will likely work in other versions of vSphere, but I used it in vSphere 5.5 a while ago, then forgot to hit publish on this post!<\/p>\n
In that\u00a0case I had installed a new ESXi host and not included the custom VIB with the drivers for the SATA card. I did this deliberately as I thought I would have no need at this time to use the local HBA. The thing I forgot is that the host profiles I had created from other hosts included a local HBA, therefore the host profiles would not remediate without one. Annoying! So I used the following steps to manually add the specific VIB I needed (in this case\u00a0sata-xahci-1.10-1.x86_64.vib).<\/p>\n
SSH to your ESXi host (having enabled the SSH server from the vSphere Client):<\/p>\n
# ssh root@<hostip>\n# cd \/tmp<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Copy the vib file into the host image (in my case I had it stored on my web server, but you could equally use any other standard method to get the file onto the host):<\/p>\n
# wget http:\/\/www.tekhead.org\/wp-uploads\/www.tekhead.org\/sata-xahci-1.10-1.x86_64.zip<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Unzip the vib file:<\/p>\n
# unzip sata-xahci-1.10-1.x86_64.zip<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Install the vib:<\/p>\n
# esxcli software vib install -v file:\/tmp\/sata-xahci-1.10-1.x86_64.vib\n\u00a0\nInstallation Result\nMessage: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.\nReboot Required: true\nVIBs Installed: VFrontDe_bootbank_sata-xahci_1.10-1\nVIBs Removed:\nVIBs Skipped:<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Check that the vib is installed:<\/p>\n
# esxcli software vib list | grep -i\u00a0<vib name in my case ahci>\nsata-xahci\u00a0 \u00a01.10-1\u00a0 \u00a0VFrontDe\u00a0 \u00a0CommunitySupported\u00a0 \u00a02014-10-31<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Remove the old files (no longer needed):<\/p>\n
# rm sata-xahci-1.10-1.x86_64.*<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Finally, reboot your ESXi host, job done!<\/p>\n
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