Emulex FlexibleLOMB firmware information

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Don asked:

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What is the easiest way to find the firmware level for the Emulex FLB on a running ESX Gen8 server?  I have looked through the OA but the firmware levels for the blades only cover the BIOS and iLO.

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Input from Chad:

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From the ESXi server in the vSphere client, either connected directly to the server or via vCenter:

-          From the console of an ESXi server, you have a couple of choices

• Ethtool -i vmnic# with number being the vmnic number

• For firmware versions of all components
  • §  /usr/lib/vmware/vm-support/bin/swfw.sh

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Input from Hans:

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Another way of finding FW and Driver levels (not only from the NIC’s) is by generating the vm-support dump file and uploading that tgz file to the VM-Support Analyzer portal. That portal will make a textfile conaining ‘all’ the info you need. (and probably much more)

1)      Making the vm-support dump file:

1.  The VMware console is displayed. Login as root.

• At the VMware [root@ESX1 ~] prompt, type /usr/bin/vm-support and press enter.
• When the vm-support script has completed, note the output file name (we will call this the vm-support file), then type logout to logout of the VMware server.
• Copy the tgz file to your laptop so you can upload it to the analyzer portal on our intranet

VM-support analyzer portal:

http://mscc0100.deu.hp.com/vm-support-analyzer/

Remark: The VM-support analyzer portal can only handle 5.x dumps.

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