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10-06-2010 12:52 PM
10-06-2010 12:52 PM
VMmware ESX 4.0, BL460 G6 blade and network issues
“no compatible network adapter found”
and ESX not booting, I found this article:
http://calebs71.blogspot.com/2010/05/bad-esx-network-driver-on-bl490c-g6.html
but it's so hokey that I'm hesitant to follow those instructions.
We're using Flex-10 Virtual Connect, all newest version of firmware but these insane issues have been plaguing us for at least six months and 3 firmware upgrades. Both support organizations have been spectacularly useless so far and I'm hoping for some suggestions on how to rectify these outages.
Thanks,
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10-06-2010 01:13 PM
10-06-2010 01:13 PM
Re: VMmware ESX 4.0, BL460 G6 blade and network issues
What is your bnx2x NIC driver version, Boot code version, and VC firmware version?
"ethtool -i vmnicx" is probably the easiest way to see that.
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10-07-2010 04:35 AM
10-07-2010 04:35 AM
Re: VMmware ESX 4.0, BL460 G6 blade and network issues
driver: bnx2x
version: 1.45.20
firmware-version: BC:5.2.7 PHY:baa0:0105
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
Our VC version is 3.01
Thanks,
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10-07-2010 07:15 AM
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10-07-2010 09:40 AM
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Re: VMmware ESX 4.0, BL460 G6 blade and network issues
your VMware ESX bnx2x driver version needs to be at 1.48 or later to support the version of NIC firmware you have on the system. I would however, recommend 1.52 as it addresses some pause frame issues:
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_40_broadcom_bnx2xu1_dt/ZHcqYmRqcGhidGR3
When you run the fw maint cd it loads a driver for that NIC so even if you don't flash the NIC firmware, after exiting the fw maint cd and booting to ESX it will work... not sure how but it must have to do with something in the firmware. Any cold boot will remove whatever that linkage is in the firmware and you will be back to not booting in ESX.
If you load the 1.52 bnx2x driver you wo't have this problem.
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Re: VMmware ESX 4.0, BL460 G6 blade and network issues
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