Hi jmizcypress,
I'm seeing the same thing with an LSI 9240-8i. It looks like all the "stock" sensors start up when I boot, but I have to manually start the CIM service to get the LSI provider to start reporting. I'm running the latest CIM provider, ESXi driver & firmware from from LSI.
What's really annoying is that the LSI provider stops reporting (showing up in Health Status) after a couple of hours so I have to manually restart the CIM service to get it reporting again. Are you seeing this behavior as well?
-Will