ESXi does not see Brocade 815 HBA on IBM 3850M2

[veli]

Hello!

I have ESXi 4.0 installed on server IBM x3850M2 with HBA adapters PN 46M6049 (Brocade 815).

ESXi does not recognize HBAs (it does not appears on Configuration - Storage adapters tab).

I downloaded driver cd from vmware site, but I can't install these drivers.(((

I place offline bundle on Datastore and try to install it by issue command:

vihostupdate.pl --server <address> --install --bundle /bundle.zip

after entering username and password vihostupdate.pl tells that bundle file does not exist.

Questions are:

1) How to issue command vihostupdate.pl to point to bundle, that resides on ESXi Datastore ?

2) Or other method to recognize these adapters? Maybe install ESXi IBM customized?

[TobiasKracht]

1. update BIOS to A3E162TUS ver 1.10 3/6/09

2. Try to use IBM customize of ESXi

StarWind Software R&D

http://www.starwindsoftware.com

[veli]

Thanks, but I already have Version 1.11, A3E164A server BIOS and v.2.0.0.0 adapter BIOS.

And my adapters are working fine, I can enter in adapter BIOS and see SAN LUNs from BIOS.

I can reinstall ESXi, but I doubt that it will be helpful.

Any other opinions?....

[veli]

So, I have install ESXi IBM customized, it was not help.

Then, I tried to install driver bundle from here:

Installation failed:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>vihostupdate.pl --server 192.168.

70.16 --install --bundle C:\bfa.zip

Enter username: root

Enter password:

Maintenance mode is not enabled or could not be determined.The following VIBs re

quire this host to be in maintenance mode: cross_vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-bfa_400

.1.1.1.1-1.0.4.00000. Please put the host in maintenance mode to proceed.

Then, I have entered host in maintenance mode amd other error appeared:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>vihostupdate.pl --server 192.168.

70.16 --install --bundle C:\bfa.zip

Enter username: root

Enter password:

Install operation failed: Insufficient space available on host (require 2 MB and

• only 1 MB available).*

How I can install these drivers?

[DSTAVERT]

You will need to free up some space on the ESXi installed partition.

Go to the unsuported console. ALT + F1 - type unsupported and Enter - type root password an Enter

Post the results of df -h and fdisk -l

[veli]

Hello all!

I discovered that I have no space on default Scratch Config location.

Then I go to Configuration -> Advanced Settings -> ScratchConfig and look at ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation and set it to Datastore (/vmfs/volumes/ID_of_datastore)

Reboot required to change takes effect.

Then I issued a command:

vihostupdate.pl --server 192.168.70.16 --install --bundle C:\bfa.zip and adapters appears in configuration tab!!!!

[davemayo]

I second that fix, thank you so much for posting what you did to fix the issue.

To go more in depth go to:

Configuartion -> Advanced Settings -> Scratch Configuration set the First textbox to /tmp/scratch or wherever you have space.

[eneville55]

fix is on post

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1587541#1587541