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Installing the adapter 13
Installing the device drivers, utilities, and HCM
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- For Linux SLES 11, change the “allow_unsupported_modules” value from 0 to 1 in the
following file:
/etc/modprobe.d/unsupported-modules
• When installing the driver package on Windows 2008 and VMware systems, open the TCP/IP port
34568 to allow HCM Agent communication with the HCM. (This procedure is necessary because
of firewall issues.)
- For VMware, use the following commands to open port 34568:
/usr/sbin/esxcfg-firewall -o 34568,tcp,in,https
/usr/sbin/esxcfg-firewall -o 34568,udp,out,https
- For Windows, use Windows Firewall and Advanced Service (WFAS) to open port 34568.
• Before installing the driver on Windows systems, install the following hot fixes from the Microsoft
“Help and Support” website, and then reboot the system:
- Windows 2008
KB968675 is recommended. This fixes a non-paged memory leak in a Windows 2008 storage
stack.
KB2490742 is recommended when installing storage drivers to avoid a “Ox000000B8” stop
error when shutting down or hibernating a system running Windows 7 or Windows Server
2008 R2.
• If you receive errors when launching the GUI-based Brocade Adapter Software Installer, such as
InvocationTargetException errors, your system may not be able to run a GUI-based application.
Refer to the Brocade Adapters Installation and Reference Manual for instructions on using
software installer commands.
• Ensure that the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (or later) Redistributable package is installed on Windows
2003 R2 SP3 systems to avoid problems starting HCM Agent.
• Installing software with the Brocade Adapter Software Installer automatically starts the HCM
Agent.
• For Windows systems only, installing adapter software creates a BCU desktop shortcut on your
system desktop. Use this shortcut to launch the BCU> command prompt and enter BCU
commands.
• By default, the initrd file will be backed up automatically during Linux installations. During
installation, a dialog box displays with the location of the file. If a file exists, a dialog box displays
with its current location and allows you to overwrite the file, not overwrite the file, or quit.
Using BASI and HCM on RHEL 6.x version x64 systems
The Brocade Adapter Software Installer and HCM are 32-bit applications. To use these applications on
Linux RHEL 6.x version x64 systems, you must first install the x32-compatible libraries because they
are not installed by default.
To install these libraries, use the following steps.
1. Install glibc.i686 or select “Compatibility Libraries” under “Base System” when installing RHEL
6.x.
2. Install the following RPMs once you install RHEL 6.x:
NOTE
These RPMs should be available under the Packages folder on the RHEL 6.0 or 6.1 DVD.