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.
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