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MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide
December 2012
Chapter 7: VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x and ESXi 5.0 Driver Installation
Installing Async Drivers on the VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x OS
5. Navigate to /offline-bundle/, and locate the .zip file.
6. To install drivers using the offline bundle, type the following command, and press Enter.
esxupdate --bundle=.zip update
7. Reboot the ESX host.
8. Exit Maintenance mode.
7.1.3 Existing ESX or ESXi Installation by Using esxupdate and the Datastore Browser
An existing ESX host or ESXi host can install offline bundles that have been copied from the async release ISO to the
ESX host or the ESXi host.
1. Extract the contents of the ISO file.
2. Identify the .zip file or files.
3. Using the Datastore Browser, upload the .zip file or files to an ESX or ESXi
host's datastore.
4. Log in to the ESX host or the ESXi host by using an account with administrator privileges, such as root.
5. Enter the host into Maintenance mode.
6. Navigate to the /vmfs/volumes// directory and locate the file
.zip
.
7. To install drivers using the offline bundle, type the following command, and press Enter.
esxupdate --bundle=.zip update
8. Reboot the ESX host or the ESXi host.
9. Exit Maintenance mode.
7.1.4 Existing ESX or ESXi Installation by Using vihostupdate and a CD
An ESX host or an ESXi host can be updated remotely by using the vihostupdate utility, which is part of the
vSphere CLI. For more details on the vihostupdate utility, refer to the vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation
and Reference Guide.
1. Power-on the ESX host or the ESXi host.
2. Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the host where either the vSphere CLI package is installed or vMA
is hosted.
3. Mount the driver CD.
4. Navigate to the /offline-bundle/ directory, and locate the
.zip
file.
5. To install drivers using the offline bundle, type the following vihostupdate command, and press Enter.:
vihostupdate --install --bundle .zip
For example:
vihostupdate --server myesxhost --username root --password mypassword
--install --bundle driver-offline-bundle.zip
NOTE You can enter host into Maintenance mode through the vSphere Client or by adding the
--maintenancemode
option to the esxupdate command.