ADAPTEC 2940 SCSI on ESXi 4.0

The following link has the steps, but keep in mind that you unpack the archive in a
dummy subdirectory or you will overwrite the files that are in your configuration.


Follow steps on this page: http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1763

Basically I uploaded the file (using scp) from my laptop to the ESXi server :

C:> pscp oem.tgz esxserver:/tmp/.

Login ESXi:

putty root@esxserver

cd /tmp


mkdir temp
cd temp
gzip -d oem.tgz
tar xvf oem

hwinfo -p

Your device will propably be in the range: 9005:xxxx


Backup simple.map
cp /etc/vmware/simple.map /etc/vmware/simple.map.org


vi /etc/vmware/simple.map


cp /tmp/temp//usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/aic7xxx.o /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/aic7xxx.o


load:

vmkload_mod -v7 -m aic7xxx aic7xxx.o

If all works well:

mkdir /junk
cd /junk
cp /bootbank/oem.tgz /bootbank/oem.tgz.original
mv /bootbank/oem.tgz .
tar -zxvf oem.tgz
rm -f oem.tgz

mkdir -p usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod
mkdir -p etc/vmware

And put the necessary files where they need to be

cp /etc/vmware/simple.map etc/vmware/simple.map
cp /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/aic7xxx.o usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/aic7xxx.o

Recreate oem.tgz and park it where it needs to be:

tar -zcvf oem.tgz etc usr
mv oem.tgz /bootbank