Fibre will provide 10GB HBA Ethernet and

I couldn’t omit the --nosigcheck parameter because esxupdate then failed with error 20 (VibSigMissing). That, unfortunately, worked only for the Ethernet drivers and not the HBA drivers. To make the 10GB HBA drivers install, I had to install the RPM directly and include the --force parameter because ESX thought the version that was already installed was newer than the beta driver I was trying to install. I did finally get both sets of drivers installed, though.Once both sets of drivers were installed, the 10GbE NICs and the 10GB HBA were both recognized in vCenter Server, but the ESX console showed an error about missing signatures. You can see a screenshot of the error here.

If you’ve been following my updates on Twitter, you know that I’m in the process of installing and configuring a Nexus 5000 switch. The Nexus 5010 will provide 10GB HBA Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) to the servers and storage arrays in the lab, and I’ll be using the equipment to help generate reference architectures and standard configurations for the ePlus virtualization team.