Upgrade Brocade or Qlogic BR-1020 in ESXi

SOURCE:

-Download from

http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/SearchByProduct.aspx?ProductCategory=322&Product=1214&Os=167

ESXi55-BCD-bna-3.2.6.0-00000-3204985.zip

BCD-ESXi5.5-bfa-3.2.6.0-00000-3000040.zip

brocade_adapter_boot_fw_v3-2-7-0.zip

Upgrade firmware

OPTION1

-download “Multi-Boot Code for BR- Series Adapters LiveCD” from

http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/SearchByProduct.aspx?ProductCategory=322&Product=1214&Os=65#133

and boot from it

# bcu boot –update brocade_adapter_boot_fw_v3-2-7-0 -a

OPTION2

# unzip brocade_adapter_boot_fw_v3-2-7-0.zip

# esxcli brocade bcu –command=”boot –update brocade_adapter_boot_fw_v3-2-7-0 -a”

to install network driver

# unzip ESXi55-BCD-bna-3.2.6.0-00000-3204985.zip

# esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/ESXi55-BCD-bna-3.2.6.0-00000-offline_bundle-3204985.zip

# reboot

to install fc driver

# unzip BCD-ESXi5.5-bfa-3.2.6.0-00000-3000040.zip

# esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/BCD-ESXi5.5-bfa-3.2.6.0-00000-offline_bundle-3000040.zip

-Geting WWN’s for all storage adapters with ESXCLI

# esxcli storage core adapter list | grep -i fc | awk ‘{print $4}’

fc.20000005334856b6:10000005334856b6

fc.20000005334856b7:10000005334856b7

-to uninstall fc driver

# esxcli software vib remove -n scsi-bfa

# reboot

NOTE:

-to connect BR-1020 twinax, we need Brocade, Cisco or EMC active twinax

p4 https://www.cavium.com/Documents/SupportMatrices/Line_card-BR-Series_adapters_interoperability.pdf