You have two options for managing the LSI Logic, Dell PERC, etc. from the ESXi CLI: StorCLI or MegaCLI.
You can download MegaCLI for VMware here: 8.04.07_MegaCLI
You can download StorCLI from the LSI website and here: CLI_VMWare_MN_8.04.07
MegaCLI:
esxi1# ./MegaCli -LDSetProp -Cached -LAll -aAll
Set Cache Policy to Cached on Adapter 0, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
Set Cache Policy to Cached on Adapter 1, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
esxi1# ./MegaCli -LDSetProp EnDskCache -LAll -aAll
Set Disk Cache Policy to Enabled on Adapter 0, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
Set Disk Cache Policy to Enabled on Adapter 1, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
esxi1# ./MegaCli -LDSetProp RA -LALL -aALL
Set Read Policy to ReadAhead on Adapter 0, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
For those who have good power:
esxi1# ./MegaCli -LDSetProp WB -LALL -aALL
Set Write Policy to WriteBack on Adapter 0, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
Set Write Policy to WriteBack on Adapter 1, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
For those that live in fear, run the above command and also:
esxi1# ./MegaCli -LDSetProp NoCachedBadBBU -LALL -aALL
Set No Write Cache if bad BBU on Adapter 0, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
Set No Write Cache if bad BBU on Adapter 1, VD 0 (target id: 0) success
StorCLI:
Show all:
./storcli /c0 show all
Enable WriteBack Cache:
./storcli /c0/v0 set wrcache=AWB
Enable IOCache:
./storcli /c0/v0 set iopolicy=cached
Not recommended see:
Enable Physical Disk Drive Cache:
./storcli /c0/v0 set pdcache=On
Read Ahead
./storcli /c0/v0 set rdcache=RA or NoRA
