unable to see HBA on DL585 G5

[mnisadmin]

Hi,

I have installed ESXi 4.1 U1 on DL585 G5 server which has an 8G HBA card.

From vsphere client I can see ISP2532-based 8G fibre channel with vmhba2 & 3

/proc/scsi/qla2xxx # cat 5
QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for HPAJ764A:
        FC Firmware version 5.02.00 (d5), Driver version 831.k1.28.1-1vmw

Host Device Name vmhba2

BIOS version 2.15
FCODE version 2.03
EFI version 2.20
Flash FW version 5.03.02
ISP: ISP2532
Request Queue = 0x16015000, Response Queue = 0x16096000
Request Queue count = 4096, Response Queue count = 512
Total number of interrupts = 1648
    Device queue depth = 0x20
Number of free request entries = 4096
Number of mailbox timeouts = 0
Number of ISP aborts = 0
Number of loop resyncs = 1
Host adapter:Loop State = <DEAD>, flags = 0x905a83
Link speed = <Unknown>

Dpc flags = 0x100c0
Link down Timeout =   008
Port down retry =   005
Login retry count =   008
Execution throttle = 2048
ZIO mode = 0x6, ZIO timer = 1
Commands retried with dropped frame(s) = 0
Product ID = 0000 0000 0000 0000

NPIV Supported : Yes
Max Virtual Ports = 254

SCSI Device Information:
scsi-qla0-adapter-node=5001438009af1485:000000:0;
scsi-qla0-adapter-port=5001438009af1484:000000:0;

FC Target-Port List:

the switch (DS300B swith ) does not seem to see the hba, althought I am working on this with EMC, do I need to update the drivers for the hba ??

[DSTAVERT]

Although I only did a quick look the ISP2532 did not appear to be supported by ESX(i) 4.x only 3.5 http://vmware.com/go/hcl It is possible that the card is listed another way and does have support. It may also have HP support directly. I would check.

Other things to look at: Make sure that you have current firmware updates. Card and DL580.

[mnisadmin]

I checked http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/search.php?deviceCategory=io and the card seems to be supported

the keyword I entered is AJ764A

Brand Name	Model	Device Type	Supported Releases
HP	AJ764A - 82Q	FC	ESX / ESXi 4.1 U1 ESX / ESXi 4.1 ESX / ESXi 4.0 U2 ESX / ESXi 4.0 U1 ESX / ESXi 4.0

[smccreadie]

Hello,

I had a similiar issue on my new HP DL380 G7s and I was ripping my hair out.  After an entire afternoon I found that the GBICs in teh HBA cards werent seated in all the way!  I had to push them in to hear a second click, it was pretty unintuitive.  Hope this can help.

Sean