Seagate X8 Accelerator Seagate X8 Accelerator User Guide for VMware - Page 15

5.3 FIRMWARE UPDATE In some cases your X8 Accelerator device may require firmware update. Use the vgc-monitor utility to check whether or not the firmware is up to date. If the firmware is up to date, the following is displayed: ~ # esxcli vgc monitor drive vgc-monitor: 3.2.55402.C7 Driver Uptime: 0:06 Card_Name Num_Partitions Card_Type Status /dev/vgca 1 VIR-M2-LP-2200-2A Good Partition Usable_Capacity RAID /dev/vgca0 2222 GB enabled The following message is displayed if the X8 Accelerator device has older firmware. ~ # esxcli vgc monitor drive vgc-monitor: 3.2.55402.C7 Error: Could not get driver uptime Also, vmkernel.log will have the following Error message logged by the X8 Accelerator driver. ~ # cat /var/log/vmkernel.log | grep -i "Version Mismatch" VGC: [0000000402840003:E] SN SJ815609: CRITICAL. Firmware Version Mismatch: Firmware for drive 'a' (PCI 0000:86:00.0) is 47955, expected 52879. Please use the latest driver and firmware. Such cases mandate the update of device firmware followed by system power cycle, as described in the subsequent section. SEAGATE X8 ACCELERATOR FOR VMWARE ESXI USER GUIDE, REV. A 11