MegaRAID Storage Manager Remotely Connecting to VMware ESX

When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is used to connect to a VMware ESX machine from a remote machine (Windows or Linux), for long running operations (such as volume creation, deletion) to complete in a shorter time, perform the following steps:

1.	Login to the VMware ESX machine.

2.	Open /etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg.

3.	Increase the keepaliveTimeout value from 1 to 100 or to a higher value.

4.	Restart sfcbd ( /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart).

5.	Restart the MegaRAID Storage Manager Framework on the MegaRAID Storage Manager client machine.

For Windows – Restart the framework service.

For Linux – Restart the vivaldi framework service.

6.	Relaunch the MegaRAID Storage Manager window.