I wanted to share for the 10GB CNA and flash

I repeated the process and the errors went away. I’ve managed to finally get them working and recognized, but it most certainly was not as straightforward as I had anticipated.our storage partners sent over some second-generation (Gen2) Qlogic QLE8142 dual-port converged network adapters 10GB CNA for me to use. These adapters joined the Emulex CNA that I had already procured for the lab to the latest version. The first time I flashed it, the 10GB CNA reported errors during the POST on the next reboot. I repeated the process and the errors went Note that I’m going to try a fresh install of ESX 4 on this system and install the drivers during the installation process to see if that helps to correct the errors  I wanted to share this information with the readers so they could be prepared in case they are planning an FCoE deployment. Just make sure that I made a major mistake in the original version of this article—the cards are actually QLogic cards, not Emulex cards. The Emulex LP21000 10GB CNA that I have are Gen1 10GB CNA and, aside from a strange cabling issue this article