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ESX 3.0.2, ESX-1001902; cciss Driver Upgrade to 2.4.66, Support for 16+ Logical Drives

Details

Release Date: 10/29/07
Document Last Updated: 10/29/07   

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Download Size:
8.2 MB
Download Filename:
ESX-1001902.tgz
md5sum:
cf66c9208719bf692281dd90478d349e

Summary

  • This patch upgrades the cciss driver from from version 2.4.64 to version 2.4.66.

  • This driver version includes critical bug fixes and support for more than 16 logical drives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Product Versions
ESX Server 3.0.2*
Patch Classification
General
Supersedes
None
Virtual Machine Migration or Reboot Required
Yes
ESX Server Host
Reboot Required
Yes
PRs Fixed
Affected Hardware
N/A
Affected Software
Unknown
RPMs Updated
VMware-esx-drivers-block-cciss,
kernel-vmnix
Related CVE numbers
N/A

Summary

This patch fixes the following issues:
  • This patch upgrades the cciss driver from from version 2.4.64 to version 2.4.66.
  • This driver version includes critical bug fixes and support for more than 16 logical drives.

*This patch is included in ESX Server 3.0.2 Update 1 release. For more information about this
update, see the ESX Server 3.0.2 Update 1 release notes at http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_esx302_update1.html.

Solution

Symptoms

There are no symptoms available for the updates provided by this patch.

Deployment Considerations

N/A

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1.      Download patch ESX-1001902.tgz from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html .

2.      Log in to the ESX Server service console as root.

3.      Create a local depot directory.

# mkdir -p /var/updates

Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4.      Change your working directory to /var/updates.

# cd /var/updates

5.      Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.

6.      Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file:

# md5sum ESX-1001902.tgz

The md5 checksum output should match the following:

cf66c9208719bf692281dd90478d349e ESX-1001902.tgz

7.      Extract the compressed tar archive:

# tar -xvzf ESX-1001902.tgz

8.      Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1001902 :

# cd ESX-1001902

Installation Instructions

After you download and extract the archive, and if you are in the directory that you previously created,
use the following command to install the update:

# esxupdate update

To run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1001902 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file://depot/var/updates/ESX-1001902 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity
of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1001902 update

For more information how to use esxupdate, see the Patch Management for
ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf .

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  • KB Article: 1001902
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware ESX
  • Product Versions:
    VMware ESX 3.0.x