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PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Sun, 10 May 2015 05:46:06 GMT

Dear,

Kindly share a PowerCLI script to find out the Fiber Channel HBA Firmware Version, Driver Version, BIOS version and FCODE version.

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Sun, 10 May 2015 07:35:17 GMT

Have a look at Re: Host Hardware info with HBA and nic driver information

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Sun, 10 May 2015 10:42:28 GMT

Dear,

Really appriciate your efforts.

Is there any way to get the details as you can see the attachment. We have a requirement to have something like this.

VMHost, HBA, HBA Model, FC Firmware Version, , FC Driver Version, BIOS Version, FCODE Version.

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Sun, 10 May 2015 11:28:55 GMT

Did you actually try the script I pointed to ?

As far as I can tell, it has all that information.

If not, let me know which info is missing

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Mon, 11 May 2015 04:58:04 GMT

Dear,

Appricite your efforts.

I have run the script and found all the details inside. Is there any way to have the details in a table format so that it is easy to have in exel.

Thanks

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Mon, 11 May 2015 05:39:25 GMT

Dear,

Adding to that, my HBA is QLogic, but the script output shows Broadcom. Could you please check the attachments ?

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Mon, 11 May 2015 06:55:30 GMT

To save the result to a CSV file, you can use the Export-Csv cmdlet.

Something like this

$report = Get-Datacenter | % {

$datacenter=$_

foreach($esx in Get-VMhost -Location $datacenter){

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esx

$nic = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost $esx | Select -First 1 | select -ExpandProperty Name

$hba =Get-VMHostHBA -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"} | Select -First 1 |select -ExpandProperty Name

Get-VMHostHBA -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"} |

Select @{N="Datacenter";E={$datacenter.Name}},

@{N="VMHost";E={$esx.Name}},

@{N="HostName";E={$($_.VMHost | Get-VMHostNetwork).HostName}},

@{N="version";E={$esx.version}},

@{N="Manufacturer";E={$esx.Manufacturer}},

@{N="Hostmodel";E={$esx.Model}},

@{Name="SerialNumber";Expression={$esx.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo |Where-Object {$_.IdentifierType.Key -eq "Servicetag"} |Select-Object -ExpandProperty IdentifierValue}},

@{N="Cluster";E={

if($esx.ExtensionData.Parent.Type -ne "ClusterComputeResource"){"Stand alone host"}

else{

Get-view -Id $esx.ExtensionData.Parent | Select -ExpandProperty Name

}}},

Device,Model,Status,

@{N="WWPN";E={((("{0:X}"-f $_.NodeWorldWideName).ToLower()) -replace "(\w{2})",'$1:').TrimEnd(':')}},

@{N="WWN";E={((("{0:X}"-f $_.PortWorldWideName).ToLower()) -replace "(\w{2})",'$1:').TrimEnd(':')}},

# @{N="Fnicvendor";E={$esxcli.software.vib.list() | ? {$_.Name -match ".*$($hba.hbadriver).*"} | Select -First 1 -Expand Vendor}},

@{N="Fnicvendor";E={$esxcli.hardware.pci.list() | where {$hba -contains $_.VMKernelName} |Select -ExpandProperty VendorName }},

@{N="fnicdriver";E={$esxcli.system.module.get("fnic").version}},

@{N="enicdriver";E={$esxcli.system.module.get("enic").version}},

# @{N="Enicvendor";E={$esxcli.software.vib.list() | ? {$_.Name -match ".net.*"} | Select -First 1 -Expand Vendor}}

@{N="Enicvendor";E={$esxcli.hardware.pci.list() | where {$nic -contains $_.VMKernelName} |Select -ExpandProperty VendorName }}

#@{N="Enicvendor";E={$esxcli.network.nic.list() | where {$vmnic.name -eq $_.vmnic1} | select -First 1 -ExpandProperty Description }}

}

$report | Export-Csv report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Last year QLogic acquired some of the Broadcom ethernet assets.

I suspect you might be seeing the driver provided vendor and the card manufacturer.

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Mon, 11 May 2015 07:51:20 GMT

Dear,

Worked fine for the excel, but the Driver version filed found empty, Could you please check the attachment and advice.

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:02:11 GMT

Did you replace 'fnic' and 'enic' with the modules you have on your HW ?

Run the following to get an overview of what PCI devices are present, and to get the correct names.

$esxName = 'MyEsx'

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $esxName

foreach($dev in $esxcli.hardware.pci.list()){

if($dev.ModuleName -ne 'None'){

$esxcli.system.module.get($dev.ModuleName) |

Select @{N='Device';E={$dev.DeviceName}},@{N='DeviceClass';E={$dev.DeviceClassName}},Module,Version

}

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Tue, 12 May 2015 04:25:42 GMT

Dear,

Please find the attched. I have run the script exactly on Vcenter without making any changes.

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Tue, 12 May 2015 05:10:55 GMT

You will have to change 'MyEsx' with the name of your ESXi host/

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Tue, 12 May 2015 08:08:27 GMT

Dear ,

Output for the script is attached. Please check.

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Tue, 12 May 2015 09:11:40 GMT

Based on that output it looks like you need replace the enic and fnic with elxnet and qlnativefc.

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

RAJESH3311 — Tue, 12 May 2015 09:37:38 GMT

Excellent.

I got the required details.

Regards

Rajesh

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

ryanhulce — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 15:37:55 GMT

You are a genius!

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

touimet — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:09:36 GMT

Luc, once again great script!! However one critical piece of information that is missing is the firmware version of the HBA.

I know I can get the firmware via SSH by using the following methods:

## Brocade (BR-xxx) ##

cd /proc/scsi/bfa

ls -h

cat # | grep Version

## Qlogic & Emulex ##

/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmgmt_keyval/vmkmgmt_keyval -a | more

Is there anyway via PowerCli (maybe $esxcli.xxxx ???) to obtain the HBA firmware versions without the use of plink?

Thanks!!!

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:40:11 GMT

Afaik, not at this point in time.

The only way I know is through the use of plink.exe (SSH) I'm afraid.

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

bvinnu — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:08:32 GMT

looking for guidance on powercli one-liner for retrieving the HBA firmware version ..it can be retrieved from ESxi shell # esxcli –server=”servername or IP” –user=”username” –password”root password” ssacli cmd -q “controller slot=0 show config detail”

Source reference : https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=420496&docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c05331132

Another source below shows he is close to get it , but I m even struck too not able to get the output with powercli #$esxcli.ssacli.cmd('"-q "controller all show status""')

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Operating-System-VMware/Problems-using-Get-ESXCLI-with-HPSSACLI/td-p/6412828

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

LucD — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 17:24:13 GMT

Did you try like this?

If that doesn't work, I advise to ask the question on the HP forum, this is a HP extension, nothing to do with PowerCLI

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost MyEsx

$esxcli.hpssacli.cmd('"-q "controller slot=0 show config detail""')

Re: PowerCli to get HBA Firmware details

hussainbte — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 07:02:10 GMT

This is providing only the driver version, have any of you guys used this to get firmware version of the HBA?