Hello,
I'm a little confused as to what I need to do to get my firmware up to date for my HP ESXi hosts' HBAs.
In vCenter the HBAs are listed as: ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA
When I do a cat /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/7 I see:
QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for HPAE312A: FC Firmware version 5.03.15 (496), Driver version 901.k1.1-14vmw
BIOS version 2.02
FCODE version 2.00
EFI version 2.00
Flash FW version 4.03.02
ISP: ISP2432
Looking on the VMware HCL I see the following listed for ESXi 5.0 Update 2 (the version I'm using):
Product: VMware ESXi 5.x FC-FCoE Driver for QLogic and OEM-branded Fibre Channel and Converged Network Adapters.
Version: 934.5.6.0-1vmw
Downloading that driver I see in the release notes:
Changes made between versions 911.k1.1-17vmw and 911.k1.1-18vmw:
* Update ISP24XX and ISP25XX firmware to 5.06.02
Question: Do I simply have to install this VIB to get my HBA firmware to the latest level or do I also need to flash the HBA firmware when the ESXi host is booting up too?
TIA