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If your ESX Server system uses the LSI Logic MegaRAID driver, VMware strongly recommends that you upgrade to ESX Server 2.5.2 Patch 3. Please download this patch from http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-252-200601-patch.html.

If you cannot apply the patch immediately, you can selectively remove storage management agents to avoid this issue.

Note: Because this problem has been reported on Dell non-blade systems, the following instructions include only the relevant storage management agent, OMSS.

Follow these steps to selectively remove OpenManage Storage Services (OMSS):

1. Log on to the service console locally as root.
   
   
2. Run the command:
   
   rpm -qa | grep srvadmin
   
   This command prints a list of all installed srvadmin modules to the console screen.
   
   
3. Run the command:
   
   srvadmin-services.sh stop
   
   
4. Run the commands:
   
   rpm -e srvadmin-storage-4.5.0-323
   rpm -e srvadmin-odf-4.5.0-323
   
   The version number at the end of the package names may be different, depending on which version of OpenManage is installed. This build number (4.5.0- 323) refers to version 4.5.
   
   
5. Run the command:
   
   srvadmin-services.sh start

To reinstall OMSS after ESX Server 2.5.2 Patch 3 has been applied:

1. Insert the Dell Installation and Server Management CD-ROM into the ESX Server host and mount the CD-ROM with the following command:

   mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

2. Install OMSS using:

   /mnt/cdrom/srvadmin/linux/supportscripts/srvadmin-install.sh -s