Installing and Uninstalling the MZ520 Drivers in VMware ESXi

This section uses VMware ESXi 6.0 as an example. For details about the configuration on other OSs, see the OS documentation provided by the OS vendors.

The following describes how to install and uninstall the MZ520 drivers in VMware ESXi 6.0 as an example.

For details about how to download the driver software package, see Installing Drivers and Firmware > Preparing for Installation in Huawei Server OS Installation Guide.

When NIC drivers are uninstalled from VMware ESXi, they are permanently removed. Therefore, uninstalling drives will cause unrecoverable network interruption. It is recommended that you do not uninstall NIC drivers from the VMware ESXi.

The MZ520 drivers in VMware ESXi include the Ethernet driver (net-bnx2x), FCoE driver (scsi-bnx2fc), iSCSI driver (scsi-bnx2i), and cNIC driver (net-cnic). Run the esxcli software vib list command to view the driver version information, as shown in Figure 4-234.

Figure 4-234 MZ520 driver version information in VMware ESXi

To install the drivers, perform the following steps:

1. Use KVM over IP to mount the ZIP driver package to the computer node and copy the packages to the OS. For example, copy QLG-bnx-6.0-offline_bundle-5105386.zip to the /tmp directory.
2. Use a terminal tool to log in to the CLI over SSH, and run the following command to install the driver.

   # esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/QLG-bnx-6.0-offline_bundle-5105386.zip

3. Restart the server for the driver to take effect.

    # reboot