MSA 2000 G3 Data stores are missing from ESXi host after reinstalling esxi 5.5

 After reinstalling esxi5.5 HP custom image “VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-Update2-2068190-HP-5.77.3-Nov2014” Everything was working fine except the HP MSA 2000 G3 FC Datastores. All the LUNs where listed on the Devices but no Datastore was detected. 

As I SSH to the host and list the volumes I received the following:

/vmfs/volumes # ls

 ls: ./530863b0-63cea050-c059-ac162d6fe2a8: Function not implemented

After googling for so many hours; the problem was SOLVED:

• Go vCenter, select the problematic host
• Click Configuration tab
• Under Software click Advanced Settings
• Select VMFS3 Changer the value of VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking from 1 to 0
• Rescan the datastores

How to run ASA in GNS3

For ASA 8.4.2
1) Download asa842-initrd and asa842-vmlinuz.
2) In GNS, go to Edit> Preferences> Qemu> ASA and configure the following:

• Identifier name: AS842
• RAM : 1024 MB
• Number of NICS : as u wish ;-)
• NIC Model : E1000
• Qemu options: -vnc none -vga none -m 1024 -icount auto -hdachs 980,16,32
• Initrd:  browse for asa842-initrd downloaded in step 1
• Kernel: browse for asa842-vmlinuz downloaded in step 1
• Kernel cmd line: -append ide_generic.probe_mask=0x01 ide_core.chs=0.0:980,16,32 auto nousb console=ttyS0,9600 bigphysarea=65536
• Press save then OK
  
   
• after the ASA is running issue the following commands:
  activation-key 0x4a3ec071 0x0d86fbf6 0x7cb1bc48 0x8b48b8b0 0xf317c0b5
activation-key 0xb23bcf4a 0x1c713b4f 0x7d53bcbc 0xc4f8d09c 0x0e24c6b6
 
  

2)You can also use ASDM to configure the ASA. (I'll publish a post for this one later)