{"id":292,"date":"2010-10-27T17:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:25:59","slug":"esxi-4-1-and-hp-bl460c-g6-with-mezzenine-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"ESXi 4.1 and HP BL460c G6 with Mezzenine card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an issue where I would install CentOS on these HP blades and I would be able to see 16 nics.\u00a0 But when I installed ESXi 4.1 I only saw 8 nics.\u00a0 16 is the right number because each flexNIC has 4 vNics.\u00a0 So with 4 of these, I wanted to see some serious bandwidth.\u00a0 After fumbling around we finally came to the conclusion that the be2net driver was not loaded on the hypervisor.<\/p>\n<p>My Mezzanine card is a HP NC550m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE BL-c Adapter.\u00a0 My HP rep said that these were not going to be supported by HP on ESXi 4.1 until November and that I could drop back to 4.0 or he could try to get me some beta code.<\/p>\n<p>I found that you can just download the driver <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vmware.com\/d\/details\/esx_esxi41_serverengines_dt\/ZHcqYmRAaGViZCVodw==\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 I tried a similar route by installing the hp-esxi4.1uX-bundle from HPs website but that just gave me stuff I didn&#8217;t need (like iLo drivers).<\/p>\n<p>The link above is an ISO image.\u00a0 The easiest way for me to install it on a running machine was to open the ISO on a linux machine and then copy the files to the ESX hosts:<\/p>\n<pre># mkdir foo\r\n# mount vmware-esx-drivers-net-be2net_400.2.102.440.0-1vm* foo -o loop\r\n# cd foo\/offline-bundle\r\n# scp SVE-be2net-2.102.440.0-offline_bundle-292682.zip vhost001:\/\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then you just need to install it.\u00a0 The only problem with this is that it involves a entering maintenance mode and then a reboot.\u00a0 Is this windows xp or something?\u00a0 We&#8217;re just talking about a driver here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, SSH to the ESXi 4.1 (or use VUG if you want to pay $500 bucks instead).\u00a0 Since I use xCAT, I have passwordless SSH set up:<\/p>\n<pre># vim-cmd hostsvc\/maintenance_mode_enter\r\n# esxupdate update --bundle \/SVE-be2net-2.102.440.0-offline_bundle-292682.zip\r\n# vim-cmd hostsvc\/maintenance_mode_exit\r\n# reboot; exit\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After the node reboots you can run:<\/p>\n<pre>esxcfg-nics -l\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>you&#8217;ll be able to see all 16 nics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-27-at-4.05.15-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-10-27 at 4.05.15 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-27-at-4.05.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that saves you time as it took me a while to figure this out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My next post will talk about how to integrate this into the kickstart file so you don&#8217;t have to do any after-the-install junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an issue where I would install CentOS on these HP blades and I would be able to see 16 nics.\u00a0 But when I installed ESXi 4.1 I only saw 8 nics.\u00a0 16 is the right number because each flexNIC has 4 vNics.\u00a0 So with 4 of these, I wanted to see some serious bandwidth.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,95,74,986,107,39,916],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}