- #Brocade san switch esxi driver install
- #Brocade san switch esxi driver drivers
- #Brocade san switch esxi driver update
- #Brocade san switch esxi driver driver
#Brocade san switch esxi driver driver
VMware ESX/ESXi 4.X Driver CD for Brocade 8Gb Fibre Channel HBA
I was a bit confused as to which one to download because I was not able to find a 4Gb Fibre Channel HBA option and the only option close to it was the:
#Brocade san switch esxi driver drivers
Realizing that perhaps I should first try to ensure that this HBA was on the HCL list, I went ahead to try and find it on VMware’s HCL:īased on what I found on the HCL, it does look like it’s supported so I went back to the VMware downloads section to try and find drivers offered directly from that site.
#Brocade san switch esxi driver update
This was when I went back to the package I downloaded for the ESXi 4.0.0 update to 4.1.0 and found that the package indeed had a metadata.zip package:īrowsing around the package I downloaded from the HP site and not finding a metadata.zip file made me suspect that I probably downloaded some other package that was not meant for ESXi updates. tar.gz file into a folder, then zipping it back up to try again:įailed to download metadata.Error extracting metadata.zip from /tmp/updatecache/brocade_driver_esx40_v2-1-1-0.zip: “There is no item named ‘metadata.zip’ in the archive” Seeing how it doesn’t look like the update is expecting a tar.gz file, I tried to extra the. Please wait patch installation is in progress …įailed to download metadata.Error extracting metadata.zip from /tmp/updatecache/brocade_driver_esx40_: File is not a zip I went ahead to try and execute the package with the command:Ĭ:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin> -server 172.20.70.13 -username root -install -bundle c:\brocade_driver_esx40_ …so I went ahead and downloaded this package: VMware and Host Connectivity Manager (HCM) Installation Kit
… which lead me to the following page on the HP site driver I thought would work was the: StorageWorks 42B - Host bus adapter - PCI Express low profile - 4Gb Fibre Channel (SW) - fiber optic - 2 ports Through reviewing the description the BOM, I find the description: The next step I did was to try and find the HBA drivers.
#Brocade san switch esxi driver install
The upgrade went without a hitch but I was still unable to see the HBA after getting ESXi to version 4.1.0 so I went back to the internet to do some searches and found that there were ways to install additional drivers for ESXi and coincidentally, you use the VMware vSphere CLI to do it (see my previous post about why this was coincidental). Other than having incorrect memory ordered and some other issues, I was unable to have ESXi 4.0.0 see the HP StorageWorks 42B HBA.Īs shown in the screenshot below, I was unable to have ESXi 4.0.0 build 261974 see the vmhba after a fresh install.Īfter doing a few searches on Google and finding various posts about people having problems with installing 2 of the quad port cards but managed to get it going after upgrading the drivers or ESXi, I decided to try upgrading ESXi from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0 ( ) assuming that the newer ESXi would may have the right drivers for the HBA. HBA (Host bus adapter): HP StorageWorks 42B PCI Fibre Channel Adapter IRQ 7, 11Īdditional NIC: NC375T PCIe Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter (IRQ: 7) Onboard NIC: PCI Embedded HP NC382i PCIe DP Multifunction 1GB Adapter Port 1, 2 (IRQ 7, 11) I ran into various problems while deploying a new server in an ESX cluster and I hope this post will help anyone who might run into the same problem.
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