RHEV-H not detecting storage (missing Brocade firmware)

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.5 (20140930.1.el6ev)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.6 (20141119.0.el6ev)

Issue

After upgrading RHEV hosts SAN disks are no longer visible. Logs contain "can't locate firmware" messages.

Resolution

Upgrade to RHEV 3.4.5 hosts or later where firmware files are present.

Root Cause

Firmware files were removed during ISO image creation. This was escalated to Enigneering and fixed as part of the below bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169799

Diagnostic Steps

RPM reports missing firmware files during verification

# rpm -V bfa-firmware
missing /lib/firmware/cbfw-3.0.0.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/cbfw-3.0.3.1.bin
missing /lib/firmware/cbfw-3.1.0.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/cbfw-3.2.1.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/cbfw-3.2.1.1.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ct2fw-3.0.0.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ct2fw-3.0.3.1.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ct2fw-3.1.0.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ct2fw-3.2.1.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ct2fw-3.2.1.1.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ctfw-3.0.0.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ctfw-3.0.3.1.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ctfw-3.1.0.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ctfw-3.2.1.0.bin
missing /lib/firmware/ctfw-3.2.1.1.bin

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