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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 ESXi 5.0 OS
7.2 Installing Async Drivers on the VMware ESXi 5.0 OS
An existing ESXi host can install drivers from a specific VIB file or from an .zip file.
7.2.1 Existing ESXi Installation by Using esxcli and Async Driver VIB File
An existing ESXi host can install async drivers from an async driver VIB file. The VIB file is copied to the ESXi host by
using the datastore browser, and then installed using the esxcli utility in the ESXi Shell.
Perform the following steps to install the async drivers:
1. Extract the contents of the async driver zip file.
2. Identify the offline-bundle.zip file.
3. Extract the contents of the offline-bundle.zip file.
4. Identify the file async-driver.vib.
5. Log in to the ESXi host using vSphere client with administrator privileges, such as root.
6. Using the Datastore Browser, upload the async-driver.vib file to an ESXi host’s datastore.
7. Enter the host into Maintenance mode.
8. Log in as root to the ESXi console through SSH or iLO/DRAC.
9. To install drivers from the VIB file (this action requires an absolute path), type the following command, and
press Enter.
esxcli software vib install –v /path/async-driver.vib
For example:
esxcli software vib install –v /vmfs/volumes/datastore/async-driver.vib
10. Reboot the ESXi host.
11. Exit Maintenance mode.
7.2.2 Existing ESXi Installation by Using esxcli and an Offline Bundle Async Driver Zip File
In this procedure, you copy the offline bundle zip file to the ESXi host by using the Datastore Browser and install it by
using the esxcli utility in the ESXi shell.
Perform the following steps to install the async drivers:
1. Extract the contents of the async driver zip file.
2. Identify the offline-bundle.zip file.
NOTE This procedure requires remote ESXi network connectivity using vSphere client.
NOTE You can enter host into maintenance mode through the vSphere Client, or by adding the
--maintenancemode
option to the esxcli command.
NOTE You can update an ESX host remotely by using the esxcli utility, which is part of the vSphere CLI. For
more details on using this utility, refer to the vSphere Command-Line Interface Documentation page.
NOTE This procedure requires remote ESXi network connectivity using vSphere client.