Knowledge Base

Symptoms

This patch fixes the following issues:

When implementing a VLAN trunking configuration on an ESX Server that utilizes the igb driver for Intel Zoar NICs, customers will encounter a loss of connectivity.

When LUN rescans are in progress, hot addition and deletion of LUNs on virtual machines as Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) might fail with concurrent modification and file not found exceptions.

Virtual machine fails to boot through network for PXE clients that use IRQ-based network transmission.

On an ESX Server host enabled with failover for two NICs, when the failback NIC starts responding, ESX Server host starts Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) broadcast before the physical switch is ready. This fix enables the physical switch to receive the RARP broadcast when the failback NIC starts responding.

Deployment Considerations

To address the issue of hot addition and deletion of LUNs on virtual machines as Raw Device Mappings (RDMs), you must install ESX-1003515 and ESX-1003513 to complete the fix. Run service mgmt-vmware restart on ESX Server.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1. Download patch ESX-1003515 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-1003515.tgz

The md5 checksum output should match the following:

0c03d2f18c360b7bda1a4eaa9ccf294f ESX-1003515.tgz

7. Extract the compressed tar archive:

# tar -xvzf ESX-1003515.tgz

8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1003515 :

# cd ESX-1003515

Installation Instructions

Note: All virtual machines on the host must be either shut down or migrated using VMotion before applying the patch. A reboot of the ESX Server host is required after applying this patch.

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-1003515 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1003515 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-1003515 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 .