10 ATTO Technology Inc. ATTO ExpressSAS Host & RAID Adapter Installation and Operation Manual
8 Verify that the driver is installed successfully:
a. Run the esxupdate query command. A
message containing the information about
the driver appears.
b. View the PCI ID XML file in the
/etc/vmware/pciid/ directory. The driver
information is available in the file.
c. Check for the latest version of the driver
module in the following directory:
/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/
d. To verify that the driver is loaded and
functioning, enter vmkload_mod -l
command. The driver is listed in the
displayed list.
9 After driver installation, please reboot host.
Once the host is back online, go to Storage and
create VMFS datastore. If storage does not
appear, perform a rescan using the VMware
Storage option. If your storage does not
present itself, thereafter, please contact your
SAN administrator.
Driver CD as an Update CD Only
The following procedure describes how to
use the driver CD to update or add the driver
on an existing ESX Server 3.5.
1 Start the ESX Server machine and log in to
service console as root.
2 Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the
server.
3 Mount the driver CD.
4 Change the directory to the
VMupdates/RPMS/ on the driver CD.
5Run the esxupdate update command.
If the hardware is not already installed on the
system, run the esxupdate command with
the
--noreboot option
, shut down the host
machine manually, install the hardware, and
then boot the host machine. This allows you
to install in a single boot.
The server reboots after the driver update.
6 Remove the driver CD from the CD-ROM drive
before the system reboots.
7 After the system reboots, log in to ESX Server.
8 Verify that the driver is installed successfully:
a. Run the esxupdate query command and
verify that the information about the driver
is mentioned in the resulting message.
b. View the PCI ID XML file in the
/etc/vmware/pciid/ directory. The driver
information is available in the file.
c. Check for the latest version of the driver
module in /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/
To verify that the driver is loaded and functioning,
run the vmkload_mod -l command. The driver is
listed in the displayed list.
9 After driver installation, please reboot host.
Once the host is back online, go to Storage and
create VMFS datastore. If storage does not
appear, perform a rescan using the VMware
Storage option. If your storage does not
present itself, thereafter, please contact your
SAN administrator.
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