VMware Cloud Community
markubiCZ
Contributor
Contributor

Instal FC HBA Brocade 815 to ESXi4

Hello.
Can somebody tell me, how instal Brocade 815 FC HBA to ESXi4 ? I have drivers from Brocade that works on ESX 3.5 fine. But I can't install them to ESXi4, because rpm command is not supported.
I need add ESXi4 to our SAN.
Tags (4)
0 Kudos
3 Replies
Dave_Mishchenko
Immortal
Immortal

Welcome to the VMware Community forums. You'd first need to get a ESX(i) 4.0 driver for the HBA as there have been sufficient changes between 3.5 and 4.0 to require that. You'd then want to take the driver file and create a custom oem.tgz file which would also contain a modified simple.map file - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/customize_oem_tgz.php.

0 Kudos
markubiCZ
Contributor
Contributor

Thank you for answer. First I must find v4 driver. Brocade have only 3.5 on download page ... maybe v4 is not available now ....
0 Kudos
Dave_Mishchenko
Immortal
Immortal

You can also check this page to see if ESXi will recognize the HBA by default - http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/Hardware_support.php.

0 Kudos