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After installing ESX4, we see that the HBA is not recognized. Put the server in maintenance mode. To get it working you have to modify your qla2xxx.xml file. So login to your ESX4 server using putty and change to /etc/vmware/pciid the mentioned file will be there. copy this part <device id=”5432″>   <vmware label=”fc”>     [...]

Just starting to update a esx4 server using the commandline. I downloaded from VMWare the update I needed. Started putty and did a copy of the downloaded zip file to the local storage. Then run: esxupdate check –bundle ESX400-200906001.zip esxupdate update –bundle ESX400-200906001.zip