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Updating 3ware Drivers under VMware
Driver updates for the 3ware RAID controller will be available from 3ware as RPMs.
The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under VMware.

| Warning: Backup your original driver before updating in case you need to revert back to it. However, you will not be able to revert back to the original driver if you are booting from that unit.

| Note: If you wish to revert to a version of the driver that is older than the one presently installed, you will first need to uninstall the present driver.

To update the 3ware driver under VMware

1 | Download the driver RPM file from the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/support/index.asp.

2 | Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver

3 | Change the directory to the location with the downloaded driver RPM file.

4 | Update the driver.

rpm -Uvh <VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-3w-9xxx-xxx.rpm>

Related Topics
  Downloading the Driver and Firmware
  Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
  Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows
  Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers
  Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows
  Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
  Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
  Updating 3ware Drivers under FreeBSD

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