What BIOS for Fibre Channel HBA?

[Ian Dennison_1]

For a simple piece of information, this seems to be an obscure and convoluted process.

HP list minimum BIOS versions on VMWare / Linux for EVA 5000 VCS 4.0, but I cannot find anywhere how to actually find this info.

cat /proc/scsi/qla23xx/0 only gives Firmware and Driver, same as the "hp fibreutils".

Does anyone know the cryptic commands to get QLA 23xx BIOS on VMWare? Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Ivan Krastev]

Maybe you should install this utility - http://download.qlogic.com/drivers/52456/Readme.txt

regards,
ivan

[Ian Dennison_1]

Ivan,

Thanks for that, do they make a version for QLA23xx?

Cheers, Ian Dennison

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

Found this:

Supported QLogic HBAs
SANsurfer FC HBA CLI is supported for the following QLogic HBAs:
ô QLA2xx
ô QLA234x
ô QLE2xx
ô QLA246x
ô QLE246x
ô QLE256x
ô QLE8042


http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/Manual/68586/SN0054614-00H.pdf

regards,
ivan

[Uwe Zessin]

You could install this QLogic SNIA API Library from:

http://support.qlogic.com/support/oem_product_detail_vmware.asp

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[root@esx5 root]# mkdir qlapi ; cd qlapi
[root@esx5 qlapi]# tar xzf ../qlapi_vmw-v4.00build4.tgz
[root@esx5 qlapi]# chown root:root *
[root@esx5 qlapi]#
[root@esx5 qlapi]# ./Install.sh
Installing QLogic HBAAPI library...
QLogic HBAAPI Installation Done.
[root@esx5 qlapi]#
[root@esx5 qlapi]# ./hbaapitest
HBA API Library version is 2
Number of HBA's is 2

********************************************
Adapter number 0 is named: qlogic-qla2300-0
Adapter Attributes
___Manufacturer:QLogic Corporation:
___SerialNumber:xxxxxxx:
___Model:HPAE312A:
___ModelDesc:QLogic HPAE312A:
___NodeWWN:0x50060B0000xxxxxx
___NodeSymName:HPAE312A_HBA_Driver:
___HardwareVersion:PXxxxxxx-10 E:
___DriverVersion:v.7.08-vm33.1:
___OptionROMVersion:v.1.26: <==================
___FirmwareVersion:v._4.00.29:
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