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5 Replies Last post: Nov 5, 2009 12:02 AM by veli  

ESXi does not see Brocade 815 HBA on IBM 3850M2 posted: Nov 2, 2009 1:58 AM

Click to view veli's profile Novice 16 posts since
Oct 21, 2009

Hello!

I have ESXi 4.0 installed on server IBM x3850M2 with HBA adapters PN 46M6049 (Brocade 815).

ESXi does not recognize HBAs (it does not appears on Configuration - Storage adapters tab).

I downloaded driver cd from vmware site, but I can't install these drivers.(((

I place offline bundle on Datastore and try to install it by issue command:

vihostupdate.pl --server <address> --install --bundle /bundle.zip

after entering username and password vihostupdate.pl tells that bundle file does not exist.

Questions are:

1) How to issue command vihostupdate.pl to point to bundle, that resides on ESXi Datastore ?

2) Or other method to recognize these adapters? Maybe install ESXi IBM customized?

Re: ESXi does not see Brocade 815 HBA on IBM 3850M2

1. Nov 2, 2009 3:11 AM in response to: veli
Click to view TobiasKracht's profile Expert 508 posts since
Aug 31, 2009

1. update BIOS to A3E162TUS ver 1.10 3/6/09

2. Try to use IBM customize of ESXi

StarWind Software R&D
http://www.starwindsoftware.com

Re: ESXi does not see Brocade 815 HBA on IBM 3850M2

4. Nov 2, 2009 10:13 AM in response to: veli
Click to view DSTAVERT's profile Virtuoso 2,418 posts since
Nov 30, 2003
You will need to free up some space on the ESXi installed partition.
Go to the unsuported console. ALT + F1 - type unsupported and Enter - type root password an Enter
Post the results of df -h and fdisk -l

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