Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Removal
Chapter 3 Software Installation
Installing Software for the Oracle Solaris OS
Installing the Fibre Channel Driver
To Install or Update the qlc HBA Driver From a Patch
Installing the Ethernet Driver
Diagnostic Support for the Oracle Solaris OS
Installing Software for the Red Hat or SUSE Linux OS
Downloading the Red Hat or SUSE Linux Drivers
To Download the Fibre Channel Driver
To Download the Ethernet Driver
Installing the Red Hat or SUSE Linux Drivers
To Build the Fibre Channel Driver
To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver
To Manually Load the Fibre Channel Driver
To Automatically Load the Fibre Channel Driver
To Build and Load the Ethernet HBA Driver
Diagnostic Support for the Red Hat or SUSE OS
To Install Diagnostic Support for the Red Hat or SUSE Linux OS
Installing Software for the Windows OS
To Download the Fibre Channel Driver
To Install the Fibre Channel Driver
To Download and Install the Ethernet Driver
Diagnostic Support for the Windows OS
To Install Diagnostic Support for the Windows OS
The HBA drivers included on the VMware distribution are sufficient for supporting the HBA. No further action is required.
To verify that the drivers loaded successfully, look for the following lines in the /var/log/vmkernel file:
VMKernel qla2300_707.o loaded successfully
The first line indicates that the Fibre Channel driver loaded successfully. The second line indicates that the Ethernet driver loaded successfully.