User`s guide

Chapter 9 VMware ESX Servers 183
1. Install the InfiniBand RPM on the ESX server:
Linux ships with its own IB drivers, but the ESX server does not. This IB RPM file
must be installed before the Xsigo ESX Commsrc file (next step).
2. Install the Xsigo VMware host drivers on the ESX server:
3. On the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, create a vNIC to use with the ESX server:
If you do not specify a local-id when adding a vNIC, ESX will assign one for
you.
The vNIC’s addressing is not added on the Oracle Fabric Interconnect side.
VMware configures and manages the addressing.
Note – This release of XgOS has a limitation. You must add and attach a server
profile first. If you add vNICs and vHBAs to a server profile before you attach it
(physcon) to the ESX server, the server profile will not work properly. See “Caveats”
on page 188 for more details.
4. Create a Virtual Machine Network using the VMware Infrastructure Client.
The network Ethernet name on the ESX server corresponds to the vNIC local-id
configuration on the Oracle Fabric Interconnect. For example, local-id 1
corresponds to “vnic1.” Local-id 2 is “vnic2” and so on.
rpm -ivh VMware-esx-commsrc-infiniband-release-3.8.0-1.09.60.rev401.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh VMware-esx-commsrc-xsigo-release-3.8.0-v99x3.8.0.i386.rpm
reboot
add server-profile myserver vmware@iowa:ServerPort23
add vnic myvinc.myserver 4/1 -local-id=4