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Figure 206 Displaying storage controller details
Installing the storage controller
1. Obtain the driver from the H3C website and mount the driver to the server.
2. Execute the
mount command to mount the virtual media to the /mnt directory.
The virtual media often resides in the /dev/sr0 directory.
3. Execute the
cd command to enter the directory where the driver resides.
4. Execute the
ls command to verify that the .rpm driver file has been mounted.
5. Execute the
rpm –ivh filename.rpm command.
Figure 207 Installing the storage controller driver for a RedHat device
6. Execute the modinfo megaraid_sas command to verify that the driver has been installed
successfully.
Figure 208 Verifying the driver installation
Installing an FC HBA driver by using a .tar.gz file (for RedHat
OSs)
This section updates the driver of the FC-HBA-QLE2692-16Gb-2P-1-X FC HBA for RedHat 7.3.
Checking FC HBA version
You can use the modinfo module_name command to display kernel module information. The
kernel module name for different server components might differ. For more information about the
kernel module names, see the release notes for the driver.
In this section, the kernel module name of the FC-HBA-QLE2692-16Gb-2P-1-X FC HBA is qla2xxx.
To view the storage controller details, execute the
modinfo qla2xxx command.
As shown in Figure 209, the version field displays the driver version of the storage controller.