Proxmox 3.1-3 with Brocade FC HBA Card

If you are using Proxmox 3.1-3 with Brocade FC HBA card, you probably will face the issue where Brocade module simply will not load. Looking at dmesg and you will find the following error message.

Brocade BFA FC/FCOE SCSI driver - version: 3.0.23.0
bfa 0000:81:00.0: firmware: requesting cbfw-3.0.3.1.bin
Can't locate firmware cbfw-3.0.3.1.bin
bfa 0000:81:00.1: firmware: requesting cbfw-3.0.3.1.bin
Can't locate firmware cbfw-3.0.3.1.bin

To solve this issue, you need to get the firmware file from Brocade. Download it from here. Select this package - Linux Adapter Firmware package for 3.0.23.x Drivers in RHEL 6.4 (bfa_fw_update_to_v3.0.23.0.tgz, 827 KB)

After you downloaded the file, extract the content and copy all the files to /lib/firmware. install bfa module using "modprobe bfa" and the module should load successfully this time.