Working on setting up Auto Deploy to use stateless caching for our HP ProLiant servers with Smart Array Controllers (ESXi uses the hpsa driver to talk to this controller.) In the host profile, enabled stateless caching and set "Arguments for first disk" = "hpsa."
While this seems to discover the local disk properly, I find applying the host profile takes a very long time and watching vmkernel.log the host is scanning all the SAN attached VMFS datastores for ESXi installations (or so it seems, see attached picture.)
I also tried "esx,local,hpsa" and got the same behavior.
I'm curious what other people are using for enabling stateless caching on ProLiant servers?
Thanks!