ESXi Patches / cumulative
Hi Community, I have a question concerning ESXi updates.Are they all cumulative or only some? How can you tell the difference? For example:If you would like to install ESXi550-201502001; do you have to...
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As stated countless times on the forums, ESXi patches are fully cumulative. See this article for more details:http://www.v-front.de/2012/11/are-esxi-5x-patches-cumulative.html If you would like to...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Yes, I am another customer that is having problems with this same exact setup. During the evening we get paged out that vCenter sees hosts as disconnected but in reality packets are getting dropped....
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AlbertWT, so far, driver 4.9.288.0 and firmware 4.9.416.0 @ legacy mode on our NC553i seems to be stable. No receive packet losses compared to the native mode 10.0.725.2 and 10.2.298.5 drivers. Emulex...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Hi PeteSu,Thanks for sharing your case.The debug driver we used is for the problem - "Emulex NIC lost network connectivity on ESXi 5.5". We ran the driver in our environment stable. I have to give...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Hi AlbertWT My understanding is whenever you see a Unrecoverable Error on NIC, it similar to my issue. You should also observe high count of InPauseFrame on virtual connect module if you are using HP...
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Could any of you guys who have the same UE issue with the NC55x cards let me know what version of OA and VC firmware you're running? Cheers, Martyn
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Hi Jess, Try this site; ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-generic/p520687518/v101011 and let us know how you go with the firmware downgrade performance.
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Re: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Pete, Thanks for the reply. The HP advisory page that you sent over to me http://h20566.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=4145106&docId=emr_na-c04218016&docLocale=en_USsuggest that...
View Articlelicense upgradation ....
is it possible to upgrade from Essential Kit to Essential Plus Kit ? better anyone can provide me the detail up-gradation chart.....
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Hi, it is possible. Here's an upgrade path chart: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2060657 I would suggest you reach out to your VMware reseller and ask him for upgrading your license. Software-wise you will...
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Yes you can upgrade from essential to essential plus kit easily.
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upgrade is possiable, call this number VMware support Number : 1-877-486-9273 and select software and then raise case. Please keep your account ID as they will ask you the same to open case.
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
I have been moved onto level 2 support. Waiting for an update from them. Hosts keep having pauses/freezing, network RX drops, vmotions stick, also All Path Down to our NFS storage. I am on the...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
Thanks everyone for chiming in. So far we have been running error free for 2 days now running the following on the Emulex 554FLB. elxnet driver: 10.0.783.13elxnet device firmware: 4.9.416.0...
View ArticleRe: Vsphere 5.5 and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb NIC trouble
I was just told to downgrade to this.. and HP support said they had another person downgrade to this and had no issues. Also they said in the next few weeks emulex is releasing a new firmware that...
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Thanks jessem for the detailed reply. However my HP BL 465c G7 Emulex model is NC 551i not 554 FLB as in my HP BL 465c G8. Somehow my HP support engineer working on my case suggest me to perform the...
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are you running 5.5 with that driver on your g8?
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All, unfortunately this package didnt work for us. So now I guess we will downgrade the driver one more level.
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Hi Jesse, Not yet, my ESXi are all on 5.1 Update 2
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