Solarflare ESXi ESXCLI Extension For Native Driver
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Version: 2.4.0.2016
Date: January 2021

Overview
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This is a feature release of the Solarflare ESXi ESXCLI Extension to be used with 
Solarflare Native VMware driver (sfvmk).

Supported ESXi Versions
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Solarflare ESXi ESXCLI Extension supports ESXi 7.0.
  
Driver version
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This package has been tested against the VMware ESXi 7.0 driver 
(SF-123638-LS) version 2.4.0.2000

Installation
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For installation, unzip the file and follow standard VMware process for 
installing VIB or Offline bundle. For detailed instructions please refer to the 
"Solarflare Server Adapter User's Guide" (part number SF-103837-CD) which is 
available as a PDF from <https://support.solarflare.com/>.

Please note whenever esxcli extension is installed, hostd needs to be restarted
in order to become visible to the esxcli infrastructure using the following command:

/etc/init.d/hostd restart


Usage
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 ~ ESXCLI extension commands can be executed locally on the host or remotely 
   using VCLI. VCLI can be installed from 
   https://code.vmware.com/sdks
 ~ While using -f option of esxcli sfvmk firmware set command in VCLI mode, 
   please ensure that 
   a) the firmware file is available on the target host and 
   b) the path of the firmware file on the target host is specified in the command.

Support
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Please contact your local Solarflare support representative or email
<support@solarflare.com>.

Known Limitations
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  ~ esxcli framework doesn't allow incremental output from esxcli extension 
    commands. As a result the progress of firmware update can't be shown. In the 
    successful case, the firmware set command shall display the output to the 
    user when all the images have been successfully updated on (all) the NIC 
    card(s). Firmware set with -d option allows update of multiple firmware 
    images on all the NIC cards on a host. This command could take significant 
    time (order of minutes) before the results are shown.
  ~ For Bundle firmware aware cards V0, VD VPD fields display empty string 
    instead of bundle firmware version.


Changelog
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### 2.4.0.2016
~ Version number update.

### 2.4.0.2012
~ Version number update.

### 2.4.0.0022 -- First release
First release containing SFVMK esxcli extension component for ESXi 7.0.

   
Copyright
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Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.