Thursday, May 3, 2012

Install HP 10G Driver on ESXi 4.0


To update or add drivers on existing VMware ESX and ESXi Server 4.0 installations using vihostupdate:
1. Power on the ESX or ESXi Server host.
2. Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the host on which either the vSphere CLI package is
installed or vMA is hosted.
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdHome/?sp4ts.oid=4274763&spf_p.tpst=psiSwdMain&spf_p.prp_psiSwdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Dlang%253Den%257Ccc%253DUS%257CprodNameId%253D4274763%257CprodSeriesId%253D4194735%257CswLang%253D8%257CswEnvOID%253D4115%257Caction%253DlistDriver&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken
3. Log in to vMA.
4. Configure VI fast path-> vifp addserver (ESXi Server host IP address).
5. Initialize fast path to the correct ESXi Server vifpinit (IP address).
6. Mount the ISO image from vMA.
7. Run the vihostupdate command to install drivers using the offline bundle:

vihostupdate --install --bundle <offline_bundle>.zip

E.g.

vihostupdate --install --bundle EMU-be2net-4.0.306.0-offline_bundle-473366.zip
vihostupdate --install --bundle hp-esxi4.0uX-bundle-1.6-5.zip
vihostupdate --install --bundle BCM-bnx2-2.0.22f.v40.1-offline_bundle-383735.zip
vihostupdate --install --bundle BCM-tg3-3.120h.v40.1-offline_bundle-543909.zip
vihostupdate --install --bundle ntx-nx_nic-4.0.614-164009-offline_bundle-674775.zip
vihostupdate --install --bundle qlg-qlcnic-4.0.727-164009-offline_bundle-483210.zip
vihostupdate --install --bundle SVE-be2net-2.102.518.0-offline_bundle-329992.zip

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