Brocade 8Gb FC Dual-port HBA for IBM (46M6050)

[kopper27]

hi guys

ESXi 4.1 update 1 is not recognizing this HBA Card.

I've checked and the card is fully supported

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=14376&deviceCat...

now my question is are drivers not included?

since there is a link to download the driver

Footnotes  :     Download driver from http://www.vmware.com/download/vsphere/drivers_tools.html

but I'm not able to get it

Can somebody confirm if the drivers are not included and if they are not how to download them

thanks a lot

[Shakaal · Accepted solution]

Hi,

please  follow the link

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/4_1#drivers_tools

there are two types , Inbox and async, inbox will come with the installer and for async you have to download the driver and install

Please find the screenshot attached

Regards

[kopper27]

thanks a lot I think I found the drivers since they are broncade 825

http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/reference_guides/IBM_Partner_HBA_Support_Matrix_01.pdf

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/dt_esxi41_brocade_bfa_3010/dHdlYnRoanRidGRkKg==

thanks for the explanation about inbox ( part of the installer) and async (need to be added)

thanks a lot

according to this I just have to use vihostupdate to install the driver

http://www.vmguru.nl/wordpress/2010/03/add-additional-drivers-to-esxi/

thanks a lot

[kopper27]

everything went flawlessly

procedure details

- Server in maintenance mode

- vihostupdate.pl --server 172.16.2.109 --username root --password PASSW0RD --install --bundle Z:\offline-bundle\BRCD-bfa-3.0.1.0-00000-offline_bundle-503974.zip

Vmware CLI must be used

- reboot server

thanks a lot