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Some Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Are Not Initialized When Boot BIOS Is Enabled

Details

Enabling Boot BIOS on Qlogic/Emulex HBAs prevents the HBAs from initializing with the following error message:

PCI resource allocation failure

This problem is caused by the HBAs' memory usage during initial bootup. This is a Qlogic/Emulex third-party limitation.

Solution

IBM suggests rearranging the sequence in which NVRAMs are loaded. The problem can be also be avoided by disabling other devices.

Keywords

host bus adapter; HBA; Qlogic; Emulex; BIOS; NVRAM;

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  • KB Article: 1003192
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware ESX
  • Product Versions:
    VMware ESX 3.5.x