Fusion Io Drivers Esxi 6

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Esxi Driver Installation

Prerequisites: Important Upgrade Notes: Upgrade Path:. A backup of all data on the HP Workload Accelerator is mandatory before installing a later version of 4.x.x. Depending on the current firmware version of the Workload Accelerator, multiple firmware updates may be required to preserve internal structures. The minimum path is:. 4.0.2 4.x.x. Version 4.0.2 is the earliest VSL version available for Generation 3. An upgrade to a later version requires a reformat of the HP Workload Accelerator, erasing all user data on the device in the upgrade process.

Esxi Driver Installation

Looking for Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) solutions listed under PVSP? VMSC was EOLed in late 2015. You can find more information about vMSC EOL in this KB article.; vMSC solution listing under PVSP can be found on our Partner Verified and Supported Products listing. VMware ESXi 6.0 detected the drive without any issues using built-in drivers. Intel DC P3500 1200GB available to ESXi 6 After formatting the drive and attaching it to the ESXi host, I created a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM (on a different drive) then assigned the P3500 LUN drive to the VM. VMware partners prepare third-party VIBs to provide management agents or asynchronously released drivers. Install vCLI or deploy the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual machine. See Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces. For troubleshooting, run esxcli commands in the ESXi Shell.

Firmware upgrade is required for all Workload Accelerator cards with 4.02 or later in the server, when multiple cards are installed. See Firmware Update Procedure below for manual upgrade steps. You must first uninstall any previous version before installing this software. Review the procedure provided in the installation notes which are included in the IoMemoryHardwareInstallationGuideforioMemeoryVSL4.2.52016-04-14.pdf. Back up all important data IO Accelerator Management Interface ioSphere 3.16.0 is the latest ioDrive management interface and is included as a separate download ioSphere3.16.tar, in this release. Maharana pratap cast. It is recommended for use with 4.0.2 and later VSL versions.

Unzip and extract the files in ioSphere3.16. into a common directory. Locate the document FusionioSphere3.16.0InstallationGuide2015-09-11.pdf. Install the management interface using the instructions in the guide To ensure the integrity of your download, HPE recommends verifying your results with the following MD5 Checksum values: 2f10160195c56b4cc4a9fe ESXi6.x.iosphere.3.16.1.zip af84d85023aba953ca6b900e0756ca0d HPEVMwareESXi-6.zip Reboot Requirement: Reboot is required after installation for updates to take effect and hardware stability to be maintained. Installation: Extract the contents from the downloaded zip (tar) file. Full installation instructions are given in IoMemoryHardwareInstallationGuideforioMemeoryVSL4.2.52016-04-14.pdf and the ioMemoryVSL4.2.5UserGuidefor(OS version)2-16-04-14.pdf. End User License Agreements: Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience.

Important: Version 4.x.x and later are required for Generation 3 and later Workload Accelerator cards Do not attempt to downgrade Generation 3 and later Workload Accelerators to VSL 3.x.x or earlier versions! Version 4.x.x must not be used on Generation 2 and earlier generation Workload Accelerator cards. Supported Devices and Features: Generation 3 HP Workload Accelerators for HP ProLiant Servers.

Firmware upgrade is required for all Workload Accelerator cards with 4.02 or later in the server, when multiple cards are installed. See Firmware Update Procedure below for manual upgrade steps. You must first uninstall any previous version before installing this software. Review the procedure provided in the installation notes which are included in the IoMemoryHardwareInstallationGuideforioMemeoryVSL4.2.52016-04-14.pdf. Back up all important data IO Accelerator Management Interface ioSphere 3.16.0 is the latest ioDrive management interface and is included as a separate download ioSphere3.16.tar, in this release. It is recommended for use with 4.0.2 and later VSL versions.

End User License Agreements: Upgrade Requirement: Recommended - HPE recommends users update to this version at their earliest convenience. Important: Version 4.x.x and later are required for Generation 3 and later Workload Accelerator cards Do not attempt to downgrade Generation 3 and later Workload Accelerators to VSL 3.x.x or earlier versions! Version 4.x.x must not be used on Generation 2 and earlier generation Workload Accelerator cards. Supported Devices and Features: Generation 3 HP Workload Accelerators for HP ProLiant Servers.

I’ve been having lots of fun lately in my new role in Integration Engineering. It is also good to have someone local once again to bounce ideas off.

Right now, that person is (although sometimes I bet he wishes I was in a different timezone ðŸ™‚ ). One of the things we are currently looking at is a VSAN implementation using Fusion-io ioDrive2 cards (which our friends over at Fusion-io kindly lent us).

The purpose of this post is to show the steps involved in configuring these cards on ESXi and adding them as nodes to a VSAN cluster. However, even though I am posting about it, Paudie did most of the work, so please consider following him on twitter as he’s got a lot of good vSphere/Storage knowledge to share. Install the Fusion-io PCI-E devices After installing the cards, make sure that the ESXi host can recognize them. Use the ESXi shell command lspci -v to check (you can click on the images to make them larger). Take note of the DID/SVID/SSID of the controller as this will be needed when sourcing the driver for the card next. In this case, it is 1aed:2001. Download the appropriate driver Now, the VCG/HCL for VSAN is still a work in progress.

Therefore, at the moment, you won’t see the driver for the Fusion-io ioDrive2 listed there. You have to search for the driver via the I/O Devices section of the HCL right now. The reason you need a driver is because ESXi does not ship with a Fusion-io driver for these cards. By searching the I/O Device section, and selecting Fusion-io and type SCSI, you will find the driver: The VCG/HCL displays enough information to verify the adapter type from the lspci output captured previously. Compare the DID/SVID/SSID listed and ensure that this is the correct driver for your controller. Install the driver In this example, the driver is on an NFS share which is mounted to the ESXi host. Next use the esxcli software command to install the driver: Step 4.

Reboot, and verify driver installed successfully As the driver installation reported, you must reboot the host to make changes effective. After rebooting, you will be able to see if the driver got applied to the system via the esxcli software vib get -n scsi-iomemory-vsl command: The driver installation looks good. Check firmware version, and update if necessary From the HCL/VCG, you can also see that there was a requirement on the firmware version.

In this example, we required firmware version 110356. A command, /bin/fio-update-iodrive, installed as part of the driver on the ESXi host is used to update the firmware on the ioDrive2 cards: In this case, the firmware is already up to date on the card. If firmware had to be applied to the card, a reboot of the ESXi host would once again be required. You can now use other Fusion-io utilities, such as /bin/fio-status, to determine the status of the device: Step 6.

Check ESXi recognizes the adapter At this stage, ESXi should be able to see the adapter. Let’s look at the output of a couple of commands, namely esxcli storage core adapter list and esxcli storage core device list: The adapter is visible and the device is available. Now you are good to go. You can now build your VSAN disk groups using Fusion-io IODrives as your flash device, and create your VSAN datastore for virtual machine deployments.