Installing With Red Hat Linux; Installing With Vmware Esxi 5.0 - Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI Installation And User Manual

Installing with Red Hat Linux

Note: You will need your Red Hat installation CD to complete this task. You must have
root privileges to install the driver image.
To install the Adaptec HBA driver while installing Red Hat Linux:
1. Insert the Red Hat installation CD, then restart your computer.
2. When the installation menu appears, press
3. Press to edit the "vmlinuz" line, add a
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linux dd
4. Press to boot.
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5. Select Yes to indicate that you have a driver disk, then select the driver image from the USB drive
(typically, ).
/dev/sda1
6. Complete the installation, following the on-screen instructions, then reboot.

Installing with VMware ESXi 5.0

Note: You will need a writable CD to complete this task. You must have administrator
privileges to create the driver disk and install the driver image.
To install the Adaptec HBA driver with VMware ESXi 5.0, you must create a custom boot image using
the VMware Image Builder tool. The VMware Image Builder is distributed as a snap-in component for
vSphere PowerCLI, a command-line and scripting tool from VMware based on Microsoft PowerShell.
You can download PowerCLI from the VMware Download Center at www.vmware.com/downloads. To
perform the installation, you will also need to download the VMware ESXi5.x Standard Software Depot
from the VMware Download Center.
Note: In the following instructions, perform Steps
to build the custom boot image, and Steps
install the custom image. Be sure to install the prerequisite software first, including
Powershell and Microsoft .NET 2.0, before you install PowerCLI or create the custom
boot image.
To install the Adaptec HBA driver while installing VMware ESXi 5.0:
1. Download Microsoft PowerShell and Microsoft .NET 2.0 (if not installed on your machine already)
and install on your Windows build machine. You can download PowerShell and Microsoft .NET from
the Microsoft Download Center at www.microsoft.com/download.
Note: PowerShell is preinstalled on many Windows systems, including Windows
Server 2012, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
2. Download and install vSphere PowerCLI on your Windows build machine. You can download PowerCLI
from the VMware Download Center at
VMware-PowerCLI-5.0.0-374833.exe).
3. Run PowerShell as Administrator, then set the execution policy to Remote Signed:
# Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
4. Download the VMware ESXi5.0 Standard Software Depot (for example,
vmware-ESXi-5.0.0-469512-depot.zip
build machine. You can download the software depot from the VMware Download Center at
www.vmware.com/downloads. When you start the download, be sure to choose "ESXi Offline
Bundle".
Note: You may need to provide account credentials to download the software
depot from the VMware Web site.
5. Insert the Adaptec Installation DVD, navigate to the esx5.0/bundle folder, then copy the driver binary
to a temporary location on your Windows machine:
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, then insert the USB driver disk.
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, then type the following command and press
Space
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