Display Hardware Acceleration Plug-Ins and Filter

To communicate with the devices that do not support the T10 SCSI standard, your host uses a single VAAI filter and a vendor-specific VAAI plug-in. Use the esxcli command to view the hardware acceleration filter and plug-ins currently loaded into your system.

Prerequisites

Install vCLI or deploy the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual machine. See Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces. For troubleshooting, run esxcli commands in the ESXi Shell.

Procedure

• ♦ Run the esxcli storage core plugin list --plugin-class=value command.
  For value, enter one of the following parameters:
  • Type VAAI to display plug-ins.
    The output of this command is similar to the following example:

    #esxcli storage core plugin list --plugin-class=VAAI
    Plugin name         Plugin class
    VMW_VAAIP_EQL       VAAI
    VMW_VAAIP_NETAPP    VAAI
    VMW_VAAIP_CX        VAAI
    

  • Type Filter to display the Filter.
    The output of this command is similar to the following example:

    esxcli storage core plugin list --plugin-class=Filter
    Plugin name  Plugin class 
    VAAI_FILTER  Filter