Download drivers for AMCC 3ware 9650SE SATA RAID Controller. Drivers found: 1. To download the drivers, select the appropriate version of driver and supported operating system.
Discuss: 3ware 9690SA-8E - storage controller (RAID) - SATA 3Gb/s / SAS - PCIe x8 Series Sign in to comment. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. The SAS RAID controller device comes with a unified RAID management interface via the AMCC SATA RAID 9690SA Manager, and a software suite that ensures the most ideal configuration experience with all 9690SA controllers regardless of the storage interface used by the controller. For more information, see the 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide and the 3ware Escalade 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide. Page 73: Driver Installation Under Linux 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) utility to configure the units. Nowadays, 3Ware is part of AMCC and still offers a powerful lineup of SATA RAID controllers for PCI-X (9550SXU) and PCI Express (9650SE). The latter also supports RAID 6 with double redundancy.
This driver CD release includes support for version 2.26.08.035vm40 of the AMCC 3w-9xxx driver on ESX 4.0. The 3w-9xxx driver supports products based on the AMCC 3ware 9650SE and 9690SA SAS and SATA RAID controllers.
For detailed information about ESX hardware compatibility, check the I/O Hardware Compatibility Guide Web application.
Driver CD for VMware ESX 4.0Driver version: 2.26.08.035vm40 | 2009-08-26 | Build: 179560 ISO File |
This document contains the following sections:
Creating the Driver CD
- Download the driver file.
- Check the md5sum of the downloaded file:
md5sum vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx_400.2.26.08.035vm40-1.0.4.00000.179560.iso
The output should match the following:
40d7307fcaad1bb98dd55ec27ea14509 vmware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx_400.2.26.08.035vm40-1.0.4.00000.179560.isoSee Verifying the integrity of downloaded installer files (KB 1537) for more information.
- Write the .iso image to a CD-ROM.
To install ESX software, refer the procedure detailed in the following section.
Using the Driver CD
The ESX driver CD allows you to install new or updated drivers on new or existing ESX software installations. You can use the driver CD in three ways:
- To install drivers as part of a new ESX software installation
- To update or add drivers by using vihostupdate
- To update or add drivers on existing ESX installations by using esxupdate
To install drivers for devices as part of a new ESX installation
Note: This procedure has changed since the ESX 3.5 driver-CD versions. You need the ESX installation DVD to begin driver installation.
- Place the ESX installation DVD in the DVD drive of the host.
- Accept the terms of the license agreement.
- Select a keyboard type.
- When prompted about custom drivers, select Yes to install custom drivers.
- Click Add to eject the ESX installation DVD.
- Place the driver CD in the DVD drive of the ESX host.
- Select driver module to import drivers to the ESX host.
- Click Next to continue.
A dialog box displays the following message: Load the system drivers. - Click Yes.
After loading the driver module, continue installing ESX. After the drivers are installed you are prompted to swap the driver CD with the ESX installation DVD.
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To update or add drivers on existing ESX installations by using vihostupdate
- Start the ESX host.
- Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the host on which either the vSphere CLI package is installed or vMA is hosted.
- Mount the driver CD.
- Navigate to <cd mount point>/offline-bundle/ and locate the <offline-bundle>.zip file.
- Run the vihostupdate command to install drivers using the offline bundle.
vihostupdate <conn_options> --install --bundle <offline-bundle>.zip
For more details on vihostupdate, see the vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide.
To update or add drivers on existing ESX installations by using esxupdate
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- Start the ESX host and log in to ESX as root.
- Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the ESX host.
- Mount the driver CD.
- Navigate to <cd mount point>/offline-bundle/ and locate the <offline-bundle>.zip file.
- Run the esxupdate command to install drivers using the offline bundle.
esxupdate --bundle=<offline-bundle>.zip update
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For more information, refer to the ESX 4 Patch Management Guide Tech Note.