Brocade Cna Driver For Mac

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• Brocade Cna Driver For Mac Os

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Hardware: – IBM BladeCenter H – HS22V and HX5 blades with Brocade 2 port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter, no local drives – IBM Storwize V7000 At the time of writing the Brocade 2 port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter (81Y1650) is supported on VMware ESXi up to version 4.1. To install VMware on the blades, a custom VMware ESXi 4.1 ISO image with Brocade CNA drivers is required. The Brocade 2 port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter drivers are available on Brocade web site: Download the latest Adapter Driver Package for WMware ESX 4.0/4.1 (brocadedriveresx4xv2-3-0-2.tar.gz at the time of writing). I used the VMware KB to include the Brocade CNA drivers into the installation media.

Brocade Cna Driver For Mac Os

First, download and install the VMware VIBDDI Image Customization Tool for ESXi 4.1. I recommend using 32-bit version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Anyway, vtar binary is 32-bit only inside the 64-bit package. Copy the ESXi 4.1 installation media ISO image to /opt/vmware/vibddi/iso.

Mount (loop) the ISO: # mount -o loop /opt/vmware/vibddi/iso/ /mnt Decompress the imagedd.bz2 file: # bunzip2 imagedd Umount the ISO image: # umount /mnt View the contents of the ESXi image: # vibddi -i imagedd -q Extract the network and Fibre Channel HBA offline bundle ZIP files (BCD-bna-.offlinebundle-.zip and BCD-bfa-.-offlinebundle-.zip) from the two ISO files inside the Brocade Adapter Driver Package for WMware ESX 4.0/4.1. Add the Fibre Channel HBA driver (bfa) to imagedd: # vibddi -i imagedd -o BCD-bfa-.-offlinebundle-.zip Setting up configuration for esxupdate This may take a few seconds. Checking bootbank filesystems (pre-install) Installing offline bundle: BCD-bfa-.-offlinebundle-.zip Update operation completed successfully Checking bootbank filesystems (post-install) Confirm the driver is in place (look for vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-bfa) in the query output: # vibddi -i imagedd -q Add the CNA network driver (bna) to imagedd and generate the custom installation image (-g flag): # vibddi -i imagedd -o BCD-bna-.-offlinebundle-.zip -g Setting up configuration for esxupdate This may take a few seconds. Checking bootbank filesystems (pre-install) Installing offline bundle: BCD-bna-.-offlinebundle-.zip Update operation completed successfully Checking bootbank filesystems (post-install) Generating customized ISO: /opt/vmware/vibddi/iso/VMware-VMvisor-.x8664.iso This may take a few minutes. Generated new ISO: /opt/vmware/vibddi/iso/custom/VMware-VMvisor-.iso Confirm both drivers are in place (look for vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-bfa and vmware-esx-drivers-net-bna) in the query output: # vibddi -i imagedd -q The VMware ESXi 4.1 custom installation image with Brocade 2 port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter for IBM BladeCenter is in /opt/vmware/vibddi/iso/custom/VMware-VMvisor-.iso. Use the image to install ESXi 4.1 on the blades with Blade Tasks / Remote Control / Remote Console under BladeCenter H AMM.

Posted by at 11:20 pm on September 25th, 2011. Hi Cristian! As per the ServerProven page for HS22V and Storwize V7000, the following CNA cards are supported: – Qlogic 10Gb CNA (CFFh) IBM refused to support us with Brocade CNA and V7000 Best regards. Posted by on.