Wednesday, December 4, 2013

UCS and VMware : How to determine fnic and enic version?

Question


How do I determine if fnic driver and enic I installed are compatible with the OS and platform?

Answer

In order to use Cisco UCS compatibility matrix, you need to prepare a following information first :

Step 1 UCSM manager 

UCS release : 
Server model : 
Adapter :

Step 2 ESXi host

ssh to the ESXi host and run "vmware -vl" cmd to check the ESXi version.
Next check fnic and enid version.

vmkload_mod -s fnic
fnic.png

ethtool -i vmnic1
enic.png


Step3. Compatibility Matrix 

Once we have above, we are good to go to the compatibility matrix below and verify if we are using supported firmware.

http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

compatibility_matrix.png

In above example, the fnic driver version we checked with "vmkload_mod -s fnic" is 1.5.0.8 and this is in the supported matrix.

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