Starting The Qlogic Adapter Vcenter Plug-In; Removing The Qlogic Adapter Vcenter Plug-In; Installing The Flash Utility - Lenovo 8200 Series Installation Manual

2. Remove the existing VIB as follows:
# vihostupdate.pl <conn_options> --remove --bulletin <bulletinID>
Note: For more details on vihostupdate, refer to the documents on the VMware vSphere
Command-Line Interface Documentation page, located here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/

Starting the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in

To start the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in:
1. Start the VMware vSphere Client and connect to the vCenter Server by entering the IP address or
name, user name, and password.
2. Click Login.
3. If the Security Warning dialog box appears, click Ignore to use the current SSL certificate.
• If you start and connect the vSphere Client directly to an ESX/ESXi server, the vCenter plug-in does
not open.
• If you have not already done so, create a data center and add the ESX server.
4. In the left pane, select the IP address of the VMware server.
5. In the right pane, click the QLogic Adapter tab to view the Web page.
The vCenter plug-in retrieves the adapter information from the server.
Note: If the server does not have the QLogic Adapter CIM Provider and adapters installed,
or if the vCenter Plug-in installation and registration was not successful, the QLogic
Adapter tab is not shown.

Removing the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in

To remove the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in:
1. In the Windows Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs.
2. In the Add or Remove Programs dialog box, select the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in, and then
click Change/Remove.
3. Follow the instructions in the QLogic Adapter vCenter Plug-in installer to remove the plug-in.

Installing the Flash Utility

For ESX, before you perform a Flash update on QLogic Adapters using the QLogic Adapter vCenter
Plug-in, ensure that the QLflash utility is also installed on the ESX system.
To install the QLflash utility on ESX:
1. Unzip the esx_qlflash.zip file, which contains the qlflash userworld executable.
2. Copy the QLflash binary file to the /usr/lib/vmware/bin/ directory.
3. Add executable permission for QLflash by issuing the following command:
# chmod +x qlflash
4. If it does not already exist, edit and append the /usr/lib/vmware/bin/qlflash entry in the
/etc/vmware/UserWorldBinaries.txt file.
For ESXi, the QLflash utility is not required, so no additional steps are necessary.
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