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MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide
June 2015 VMware Driver Installation
Installing Asynchronous Drivers on the VMware ESXi 5.x and 6.xOperating System
Chapter 7: VMware Driver Installation
This chapter describes how to install and update the VMware device drivers on VMware ESXi 5.x, vSphere® 5.x, and ESXi
6.xoperating systems.
7.1 Installing Asynchronous Drivers on the VMware ESXi 5.
x and 6.xOperating
System
An existing ESXi host can install drivers from a specific VIB file or from a megaraid_sas.zip file.
7.1.1 Using esxcli and the Asynchronous Driver VIB File in an Existing ESXi Installation
An existing ESXi host can install asynchronous drivers from an asynchronous driver VIB file. The VIB file is copied to the
ESXi host by using the datastore browser, and then installed using the
esxcli utility in the ESXi Shell.
NOTE This procedure requires remote ESXi network connectivity using
vSphere client.
Perform the following steps to install the asynchronous drivers:
1. Extract the contents of the asynchronous driver zip file.
2. Identify the megaraid_sas.zip file.
3. Extract the contents of the megaraid_sas.zip file.
4. Identify the async-driver.vib file.
5. Log in to the ESXi host using vSphere client with administrator privileges, such as root.
6. Using the Datastore Browser, upload the async-driver.vib file to an ESXi host’s datastore.
7. Enter the host into Maintenance mode.
NOTE You can enter host into maintenance mode through the vSphere
Client, or by adding the
--maintenancemode option to the esxcli
command.
8. Log in as root to the ESXi console through SSH or iLO/DRAC.
9. To install drivers from the VIB file (this action requires an absolute path), type the following command, and
press Enter.
esxcli software vib install –v /path/async-driver.vib
For example:
esxcli software vib install –v /vmfs/volumes/datastore/async-driver.vib
10. Reboot the ESXi host.
11. Exit Maintenance mode.
NOTE You can update an ESX host remotely by using the esxcli utility, which
is part of the vSphere CLI. For more details on using this utility, refer to
the vSphere Command-Line Interface Documentation page.