Specifications
10 ATTO Technology Inc. ATTO ExpressSAS Host & RAID Adapter Installation and Operation Manual
8 Verify that the driver is installed successfully:
 a.  Run the esxupdate query command. A 
message containing the information about 
the driver appears.
 b.  View the PCI ID XML file in the 
/etc/vmware/pciid/ directory. The driver 
information is available in the file.
 c.  Check for the latest version of the driver 
module in the following directory: 
/usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/ 
 d.  To verify that the driver is loaded and 
functioning, enter vmkload_mod -l 
command. The driver is listed in the 
displayed list.
9 After driver installation, please reboot host. 
Once the host is back online, go to Storage and 
create VMFS datastore. If storage does not 
appear, perform a rescan using the VMware 
Storage option. If your storage does not 
present itself, thereafter, please contact your 
SAN administrator.
Driver CD as an Update CD Only 
Note
The following procedure describes how to 
use the driver CD to update or add the driver 
on an existing ESX Server 3.5. 
1 Start the ESX Server machine and log in to 
service console as root.
2 Place the driver CD in the CD-ROM drive of the 
server. 
3 Mount the driver CD. 
4 Change the directory to the 
VMupdates/RPMS/ on the driver CD.
5Run the esxupdate update command. 
Note
If the hardware is not already installed on the 
system, run the esxupdate command with 
the 
--noreboot option
, shut down the host 
machine manually, install the hardware, and 
then boot the host machine. This allows you 
to install in a single boot. 
The server reboots after the driver update.
6 Remove the driver CD from the CD-ROM drive 
before the system reboots.
7 After the system reboots, log in to ESX Server.
8 Verify that the driver is installed successfully: 
 a.  Run the esxupdate query command and 
verify that the information about the driver 
is mentioned in the resulting message.
 b.  View the PCI ID XML file in the 
/etc/vmware/pciid/ directory. The driver 
information is available in the file.
 c.  Check for the latest version of the driver 
module in /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/
To verify that the driver is loaded and functioning, 
run the vmkload_mod -l command. The driver is 
listed in the displayed list.
9 After driver installation, please reboot host. 
Once the host is back online, go to Storage and 
create VMFS datastore. If storage does not 
appear, perform a rescan using the VMware 
Storage option. If your storage does not 
present itself, thereafter, please contact your 
SAN administrator.










