In order to manage an ESX or ESXi host using vMA they will need to be added to vMA first:
sudo vifp addserver <servername>
It would ask you for a username and password which would cache in order to run any future remote scripts.
vifptarget –s <servername>
This would let you target a specific ESX/ESXi host
For the list of available parameters for Qla2xxx and Qla4xxx have a look at (Changing HBA parameters in ESXi).
To apply a single or a set of parameters using vMA, use the following syntax:
Example: vicfg-module –s ‘qlport_down_retry=60 ql2xmaxqdepth=64’ qla2xxx
To display parameters set on an HBA use the command: vicfg-module –g qla2xxx
Make sure you reboot the host after making any changes to take effect.
Note: If you apply a single parameter change at a time it would reset all other parameters to default and only apply the last parameter change to the host.
Sam Khanjar 