{"id":198,"date":"2011-12-30T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.campodoro.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-12-30T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T16:52:34","slug":"loading-drivers-in-esxi-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.campodoro.org\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Loading drivers in ESXi 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I upgraded to 5 from 4.1 – Cool. Almost. Vanilla install had no support for my Promise SuperTrak EX-8654 card which I have in my HP MircoServer. Now what?!?!?
\nWell, after a lot of searches, the solution was actually on the Promise site! Yay for them!<\/p>\n

So in short an example of you to load a driver on esxi 5.0.<\/p>\n

1) Enable ssh access on your esxi 5 host (what do you mean you’ve already done that? It’s dangerous!)<\/p>\n

2) Get you driver. The 8654 driver I got from the Promise support site was called 'scsi-stex-4.07.0000.75-1OEM.500.0.0.472560.x86_64.vib'<\/code>. Yep, what’s in a name.<\/p>\n

3) Copy over the driver to the host using scp
\nex: scp <driver name> root@<esxi_5_host_ip>:\/tmp<\/code><\/p>\n

4) Next ssh to the esxi host, go to \/tmp<\/p>\n

5) Install the driver
\nesxcli software vib install -v \/tmp\/<driver name><\/code><\/p>\n

6) Reload the esxi host – Oh I hand’t told you? Well you need the driver right?<\/p>\n

7) Then ssh to the esxi host and check if the driver loaded with 'esxcli software vib list'<\/code>
\nIn my specific case it looked like this:<\/p>\n

~ # esxcli software vib list
\nName \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Version \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Vendor \u00c2\u00a0 Acceptance Level \u00c2\u00a0Install Date
\n---------- \u00c2\u00a0---------------------------------- \u00c2\u00a0------- \u00c2\u00a0---------------- \u00c2\u00a0------------
\nscsi-stex \u00c2\u00a0 4.07.0000.75-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Promise \u00c2\u00a0VMwareCertified \u00c2\u00a0 2011-12-26
<\/code><\/p>\n

8) Sit back and enjoy the fact you have access to the disks again for adding as a datastore.<\/p>\n

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