HP NC7131 drivers

[smudge1977]

I have two HP ML570 G2 servers that I am making in to a LAB ESX enviroment. I am using SAN Melody as an iSCSI target on a ML370 G2

The two ML570 boxes have an onboard 100Mb NIC and two NC7131 1Gb NICS

When I try and get to the iSCSI using one of the 1Gb NICs things all stop working.

I have downloaded e1000-7.4.24b-1.src.rpm from http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/26812.html

Then I installed with

rpm -ivh e1000-7.4.24b-1.src.rpm

still the NICs don't seem to work - any thoughts please??

[doubleH]

never download drivers if they are not vmware supplied. not sure why you would do that. these nics are on the HCL so the vmkernel will detect them.

typo

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doubleH

[smudge1977]

It is definatly the 1Gb NICs that stop things working! I have check an VI still say the driver is the e1000 not sure if this would be the old or the new! Any other ideas greatly....

[doubleH]

what are the speed/duplex settings set at on the switch ports?

[smudge1977]

okay - update time. I have moved from the 1gb switch from some random vendor to having the ESX and NAS box patched in to my core switches.

Still when I put the VMKernal port on the 1Gb NIC things all start to go wrong. Have tried SAN Melody and Star Wind as the NAS iSCSI software.

I have put on HPs latest drivers for the NC7131 (this is on the NAS W3K Server end)

I done a fresh install of ESX on one box so the standard 3.0.1 ESX e1000 driver is inuse now definatly.

Still have same problem. Finial thing is to try the other 1Gb I have in the NAS box incease it is some issue with that one not liking to go at full speed!!

Any other thoughts?

[smudge1977]

Noticed this old question and thought I would post the result:

changed to use some IBM 1Gb nics in the ESX boxes to talk to SAN Melody and that seemed to fix things! So a compatibility issues with SAN Melody...