Solaris 11 and VMWare
VMWare ESXi emulates an LSI parallel HBA to handle local disks. Solaris uses the mpt driver for it. Even at installation from the iso, I see errors. Here is an example:
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] scsi_state = 0, transfer count = 0, scsi_status = 0
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0 (sd2):
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris incomplete write- retrying
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10 (mpt0):
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris unknown ioc_status = 4
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] scsi_state = 0, transfer count = 0, scsi_status = 0
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0 (sd2):
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] scsi_state = 0, transfer count = 0, scsi_status = 0
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0 (sd2):
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris incomplete write- retrying
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10 (mpt0):
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris unknown ioc_status = 4
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] scsi_state = 0, transfer count = 0, scsi_status = 0
Nov 11 01:30:44 solaris scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@1,0 (sd2):
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