![]() ![]() If firmware had to be applied to the card, a reboot of the ESXi host would once again be required. In this case, the firmware is already up to date on the card. 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 example, we required firmware version 110356. Check firmware version, and update if necessaryįrom the HCL/VCG, you can also see that there was a requirement on the firmware version. 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: Reboot, and verify driver installed successfullyĪs the driver installation reported, you must reboot the host to make changes effective. Next use the esxcli software command to install the driver: In this example, the driver is on an NFS share which is mounted to the ESXi host. Compare the DID/SVID/SSID listed and ensure that this is the correct driver for your controller. The VCG/HCL displays enough information to verify the adapter type from the lspci output captured previously. By searching the I/O Device section, and selecting Fusion-io and type SCSI, you will find the driver: The reason you need a driver is because ESXi does not ship with a Fusion-io driver for these cards. You have to search for the driver via the I/O Devices section of the HCL right now. ![]() Therefore, at the moment, you won’t see the driver for the Fusion-io ioDrive2 listed there. Now, the VCG/HCL for VSAN is still a work in progress. Take note of the DID/SVID/SSID of the controller as this will be needed when sourcing the driver for the card next. Use the ESXi shell command lspci -v to check (you can click on the images to make them larger). Install the Fusion-io PCI-E devicesĪfter installing the cards, make sure that the ESXi host can recognize them. 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. 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. 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). Right now, that person is Paudie O’Riordan (although sometimes I bet he wishes I was in a different timezone □ ). It is also good to have someone local once again to bounce ideas off. ![]() I’ve been having lots of fun lately in my new role in Integration Engineering. ![]()
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