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Installing Fusion- IO on ESXi hosts. This post is also available in. Fusion- IO is a well- know company in the host- side flash solutions to accelerates.

00: 0c: 00.0 Bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. Card has been detected – 00:05:00.0 Mass storage controller: Fusion-io ioDimm3 Drivers installation • Download a ESXi5 drivers offline package iomemory-vsl-2.3.11.183-offline_bundle-909505.zip from FusionIO support page – – FusionIO account is needed. • Upload drives on ESXi host – you can use vSphere client or WinSCP • Install drives on ESXi • remotely using vCLI, esxcli –server software vib install -d • from console – esxcli software vib install -d. ~ # fio-status Unable to get product information for /dev/fct0:0. Unable to get format information for /dev/fct0.

Unable to get data volume information for /dev/fct0. Unable to get system monitor information for /dev/fct0. Unable to get product information for /dev/fct1:0. Unable to get format information for /dev/fct1. Todo Estara Bien Ricardo Arjona Descargar. Unable to get data volume information for /dev/fct1. Unable to get system monitor information for /dev/fct1.

Found 2 ioDrives in this system with 1 ioDrive Duo Fusion-io driver version: 2.3.11 build 183 Adapter: ioDrive Duo ioDrive Duo HL SN:59649 External Power: NOT connected Connected ioDimm modules: fct0: HP ioDIMM 320GB SN:73388 fct1: HP ioDIMM 320GB SN:51321 fct0 Status unknown: Driver is in MINIMAL MODE: Firmware is out of date. Update firmware. HP ioDIMM 320GB SN:73362 Located in slot 0 Upper of ioDrive Duo SN:73388 PCI:05:00.0 Firmware v5.0.6, rev 101583 Geometry and capacity information not available. Sufficient power available: Unknown Internal temperature: 57.1 degC, max 57.1 degC fct1 Status unknown: Driver is in MINIMAL MODE: Firmware is out of date. Update firmware.

HP ioDIMM 320GB SN:51301 Located in slot 1 Lower of ioDrive Duo SN:51321 PCI:06:00.0 Firmware v5.0.6, rev 101583 Geometry and capacity information not available. Sufficient power available: Unknown Internal temperature: 55.6 degC, max 55.6 degC ~ #. ~ # As you can see card is running in minimal mode and firmware on card is outdated, which means Firmware upgrade is necessary Upgrade FusionIO card firmware on ESXi 5.1 • Download firmware package iodrive_107053.fff from FusionIO support page [box type=”warning”] Make sure that driver version and firmware version are matches[/box] • Upload firmware package on ESXi5.1 host • Execute fio-update-iodrive -d /dev/fctX where X is a device number, in my case I have to upgrade firmware on both cards /dev/fct0 and /dev/fct1 [box type=”warning”] F irmware upgrade takes around 15 minutes!! DO NOT STOP UPGRADE UTILITY OR POWER SERVER OFF[/box]. ~ # fio-update-iodrive -d /dev/fct1 /vmfs/volumes/SATA01/install/iodrive_107053.fff Warning: ioDrive at '/dev/fct1' has incomplete internal identification information. Avvicinamento Al Restauro Fontana. Even though the ioDrive will continue to run, some utilities and SDK functions may have problems identifying and enumerating this ioDrive. Device ID 1 (/dev/fct1) Updating device firmware from 5.0.6.101583 to 5.0.7.107053 WARNING: DO NOT TURN OFF POWER OR RUN ANY IODRIVE UTILITIES WHILE THE FIRMWARE UPDATE IS IN PROGRESS Please wait.this could take a while Progress ------------------------- 0: 100% Results ------------------------- 0: Firmware updated successfully You MUST now reboot this machine before the new firmware will be activated!