Description

This software is the driver for Emulex lpfc FC card VMware operating system version 14.4.576.11.

Installation steps

Restrictions and guidelines

1.Before updating the software, as a best practice, understand the changes on the software between versions, assess the impacts of the changes on the services and read supporting materials.

2.Known Issue: When the FCHBA card is connected to the storage via a fiber switch, restarting the fiber switch followed by a storage reboot will result in the FCHBA being unable to connect to the storage; Workaround: After restarting the fiber switch or encountering the issue where the FCHBA cannot connect to the storage, perform a disable and enable operation on the switch port connected to the host HBA.

Installation steps

Driver file in the VIB format

1.On the home screen of ESXi, press F2 to access the configuration page and enter the password of the root account.

2.Select the Troubleshooting Options menu and enable the SSH service and the ESXi Shell function.

3.Access the Vphere web client page through the management IP address and upload the driver file to the /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 directory.

4.On the home screen of ESXi, press Alt+F1 to enter the system command line interface and access the /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 directory (to exit the command line interface, press Alt+F2).

5.To install the driver the first time, execute the command esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xxx.vib.

To update the driver, execute the command esxcli software vib update -v /vmfs/volumes/ datastore1/xxx.vib.

(Note: If the driver installation prompts "could not find a trusted signer", you can add the parameter --no-sig-check after the command line)

6.After the driver is successfully installed, reboot the system.

7.Restart the system and use the command esxcli storage san fc list to verify the driver version of FC-HBA. If it is the target version, the new driver is installed successfully.

Offline_bundle zip driver file

1.On the home screen of ESXi, press F2 to access the configuration page and enter the password of the root account.

2.Select the Troubleshooting Options menu and enable the SSH service and the ESXi Shell function.

3.Access the Vphere web client page through the management IP address and upload the driver file to the /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 directory.

4.On the home screen of ESXi, press Alt+F1 to enter the system command line interface and access the /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 directory (to exit the command line interface, press Alt+F2).

5.To install the driver the first time, execute the command esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/ datastore1/xxx_offline_bundle.zip.

To update the driver, execute the command esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/ datastore1 /xxx_offline_bundle.zip.

(Note: If the driver installation prompts "could not find a trusted signer", you can add the parameter --no-sig-check after the command line)

6.After the driver is successfully installed, reboot the system.

7.Restart the system and use the command esxcli storage san fc list to verify the driver version of FC-HBA. If it is the target version, the new driver is installed successfully.

Publish Description

Supported products

H3C UniServer B5700 G3

H3C UniServer B5700 G5

H3C UniServer B5800 G3

H3C UniServer B7800 G3

H3C UniServer E3200 G3

H3C UniServer R2700 G3

H3C UniServer R2900 G3

H3C UniServer R4300 G3

H3C UniServer R4300 G5

H3C UniServer R4330 G5

H3C UniServer R4330 G5 H3

H3C UniServer R4500 G3

H3C UniServer R4700 G3

H3C UniServer R4700 G5

H3C UniServer R4700 G6

H3C UniServer R4900 G3

H3C UniServer R4900 G5

H3C UniServer R4900 G6

H3C UniServer R4900 G6 Ultra

H3C UniServer R4930 G5

H3C UniServer R4930 G5 H3

H3C UniServer R4950 G5

H3C UniServer R4950 G5 Milan

H3C UniServer R4950 G5 Rome

H3C UniServer R4950 G6

H3C UniServer R5300 G3

H3C UniServer R5300 G5

H3C UniServer R5500 G5 AMD

H3C UniServer R5500 G5 Intel

H3C UniServer R6700 G3

H3C UniServer R6900 G3

H3C UniServer R8900 G3

H3C UniServer R5350 G6

H3C UniServer R6900 G5

H3C UniServer R5500 G6 AMD

H3C UniServer R5500 G6 Intel

H3C UniServer R5300 G6

H3C UniServer R5500LC G5 Intel

H3C UniServer R5500 G5 HYGON

H3C UniServer B5700 G6

H3C UniServer R4900LE G6 Ultra

H3C UniServer R4700LE G6

H3C UniServer R4900LC G5

H3C UniServer R4700LC G5

H3C UniServer R4930LC G5 H3

H3C UniServer R4300 G6

H3C UniServer R4500 G6

H3C UniServer R6700 G6

H3C UniServer R6900 G6

H3C UniServer R5330 G7

H3C UniServer R5500 G7 Hygon

H3C UniServer R4930 G7

H3C UniServer E3300 G6

H3C UniServer R3950 G6

H3C UniServer R4330 G7

H3C UniServer R4950 G7

H3C UniServer R3950 G7

H3C UniServer R3350 G7

H3C UniServer R4900 G7

H3C UniServer R4700 G7

H3C UniServer R3900 G7

H3C UniServer R4300 G7

Restrictions and guidelines

1.Before updating the software, as a best practice, understand the changes on the software between versions, assess the impacts of the changes on the services and read supporting materials.

2.Known Issue: When the FCHBA card is connected to the storage via a fiber switch, restarting the fiber switch followed by a storage reboot will result in the FCHBA being unable to connect to the storage; Workaround: After restarting the fiber switch or encountering the issue where the FCHBA cannot connect to the storage, perform a disable and enable operation on the switch port connected to the host HBA.

Problems Solved

1.The issue of LUNs disappearing on ESXi 8.0 servers after a major fabric disruption is fixed.

New Functions

1.Added support for ESXi 8.0 U3 operating system and no longer supports ESXi 7.0 operating system.

2.Added support for ESXi9.0 operating system.

3.The ESXi 9.0 version driver and its name are modified to facilitate the driver update operation.

4.In ESXi9.0, the driver's memory usage has been reduced.

Version:14.4.726.0(2026/5/9)

Upgrade recommendations

Upgrade the driver, as a best practice.

Problems Solved

1.None.

New Functions

1.Modified the range of the driver parameter lpfc_hba_queue_depth to include values 2K to 256K.

2.On an ESXi server, increased the number of supported HBA ports to 32.

3.Support is added for the BB credit recovery feature while configuring a point-to-point topology.

Version:14.4.576.11(2025/7/30)

Upgrade recommendations

Upgrade the driver, as a best practice.

Problems Solved

1.The issue of LUNs disappearing on ESXi 8.0 servers after a major fabric disruption is fixed.

New Functions

1.Added support for ESXi 8.0 U3 operating system and no longer supports ESXi 7.0 operating system.

2.Added support for ESXi9.0 operating system.

3.The ESXi 9.0 version driver and its name are modified to facilitate the driver update operation.

4.In ESXi9.0, the driver's memory usage has been reduced.

Version:14.4.317.4(2024/8/26)

Upgrade recommendations

Upgrade the driver, as a best practice.

Problems Solved

1.None.

New Functions

1. Added support for the iPadOS 8.0 U3 operating system

2. Added support for collecting information from switches to create topology maps

3. DPortTest initiated by HBA is no longer supported; This feature will be disabled in future versions. HBA will continue to support switch initiated testing

4.The Emulex HBA Manager application only supports the Emulex HBA Manager CLI. Emulex HBA Manager GUI is no longer supported

5.Added support for automatic adjustment of driver heap allocation for larger server configurations in SQLite 8.0 and later operating systems

6.Added support for a higher range of heap size values in the lpfc_max_heap size module parameter

Version:14.2.673.36(2024/4/2)

Upgrade recommendations

Upgrade the driver, as a best practice.

Problems Solved

1.None.

New Functions

1.Added support for ESXi 8.0 U2 operating system.

2.Modified the lpfc_max_heap_size driver parameter to support auto-adjustment of driver heap allocation in large server configurations.

Version:14.2.567.0(2023/7/20)

Upgrade recommendations

Upgrade the driver, as a best practice.

Problems Solved

1.FDMI Port speed now shows the correct port speed of the trunk port.

2.By default, lpfc_suppress_rsp parameter is now disabled (set to 0).

3.On ESXi 8.0, unrecoverable operating system failures no longer occur when rebooting servers with a large number of aggregation configurators.

4.Solved problems related to path discovery in large-scale FC configuration.

5.Resolved the virtual port reconnection problem related to the target controller failover.

New Functions

1.Added support for circular buffers to capture and store debug information from I /O transactions.

2.FABL is no longer supported, this feature will be disabled in future versions.

3.FA-PWWN is no longer supported, this feature will be disabled in future versions.

4.OpenBoot (also known as Fcode) is no longer supported and will be disabled in future releases.

5.Added support for the ESXi 8.0 U1 operating system.