I spent 2 days trying to figure out how to install a SSD Fusion IO HP 320GB PCIe ioDrive MLC IO Accelerator into my Dell Poweredge T620. I went on the HP website for drivers and firmware update and nothing. Installing the Fusion-io Card Refer to the Owner's Manual for your PowerEdge server for instructions on installing a PCIe at the Dell Product Support site. To determine the optimal PCIe slot to install the card in refer to the - PowerEdge Servers Slot Support Matrix. Navigate to Dell ioDrive Support Center.

Dell Fusion Io Drivers Updater

Dell Fusion Io Drivers Test Traditionally, I would specify a high-end HP ProLiant server with the top CPU stepping for this application. I need to go to SSD, and I'm able to acquire Fusion-io at a lower price than enterprise SAS SSD for the required capacity. Fussion IO Driver for Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - ThinkStation P500. ESX 5.5 ships with fusion-io drivers already installed, though I forget which version. You'll want to do an esx software vib list, find it, then remove the built-in driver. I'd get the latest drivers from sandisk's site that match the latest firmware you can get from IBM. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I've got a couple of Fusion-IO devices myself. A 1.2TB ioDrive2 and a 420GB ioFX. I also have a earlier card I got from when I worked next to their HQ in Cottonwood Heights. Not sure what size that card is cause it doesn't work with any of the drivers. Its either bad or an engineering sample that doesn't get picked up by the release drivers.

Fusion-io ioDrives like SSDs offer flash memory for the permanent storage of data. The memory chips are directly on an x4 PCIe card and therefore, unlike SSDs, do not have SATA, or SAS connections. Through its own driver read and write access are addressed directly on the card (ioMemory VSL, Virtual Storage Layer).^[1][2] This enables a very high I/O performance, which is rarely achieved with conventional RAID systems. Booting directly from the ioDrive is not possible due to the necessary driver. They are significantly more expensive compared to normal ioDrive SSDs, but offer higher performance. They are therefore especially suitable for I/O-intensive applications that require a high number of possible I/O operations per second (IOPS).

Properties

• Capacity: 160 GB (SLC), 320 GB (MLC), 640 GB (MLC)^[3]
• Supported Operating Systems: 64-Bit Microsoft Server 2003/2008, 64-Bit Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Win7, RHEL 4/5, SLES 10/11, OEL v4/v5^[4], in der Within the list of supported Linux core versions there is also a list including Debian and Ubuntu cores.
• Cache: Fusion-io ioDrive does not use DRAM cache such as in hard drives or SSDs. Therefore, cache content will not be lost in case of a power failure. ^[5]
• CPU: the ioDrive does not have its own CPU.^[6]
• Monitoring: by fio-snmp-agentx SNMP Agent^[7]

References

1. ↑http://www.fusionio.com/press/Fusion-io-Continues-Its-Innovation-Leadership-by-Introducing-First-Flash-Optimized-Subsystem/
2. ↑http://hothardware.com/News/Fusionio-ioMemory-VSL-Treats-Flash-Storage-As-A-New-Memory-Tier/
3. ↑http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodrive/
4. ↑ioDrive Datasheet
5. ↑http://community.fusionio.com/forums/t/97.aspx
6. ↑http://community.fusionio.com/forums/t/46.aspx
7. ↑http://kb.fusionio.com/KB/a67/setting-up-snmp.aspx?KBSearchID=4801

Additional Information

As a prequel to my upcoming FusionIO performance benchmarking articles I thought I would quickly demonstrate how easy it is to install the FusionIO drivers for VMware ESXi. /descargar-en-la-linea-recta-pdf.html.

First you need to download the drivers from https://support.fusionio.com/downloads , you will need to register to access the support website.

Once you login you need to click the Downloads button and you will see the “Identify Product” section appear similar to the below. Select “IODrive2” , The suitable VMware ESXi version, and for option 3, the latest version.

Then you should see the below available downloads.

The file you need is the “Fusion-IO_libvsl-offline-bundle-%version%” file which is under “Utilities”.

Dell Fusion Io Drivers Download

Download the file and extract the zip file, and you should see similar to the below.

Now we need to either copy the vib file to a datastore OR use something like WinSCP to copy the file to the host.

The easiest way in my opinion is to copy the file to a datastore via vSphere client.

To do this, goto the “configuration” tab for your ESXi host/s , select “storage” under the “Hardware” section, then select your datastore.

Now right click the datastore and select “Browse Datastore”

Once in your datastore, click this icon and you will see the below appear.

Select the VIB file and press “Open”

The file should now upload, and you will see a progress window like the below.

Once the file is in your datastore, make note of the path assuming you didn’t use the root of the datastore.

Now click “Security Profile” under the “Software” section (see below).

Now click “Properties” for the “Firewall” and you will see the below appear.

Ensure “SSH Server” is ticked like the above and press Ok.

Dell Fusion Io Drivers Ed

Your now ready to SSH to your ESXi host using a program such as PuTTY.

Open PuTTY, enter the IP or hostname for your ESXi host, select SSH (Port 22) and press Connect.

You will be prompted for credentials, I am using “root” in this example.

Dell Fusion Io Drivers Windows 7

After entering your credentials, you should see the below screen.

Now we use “esxcli” to install the VIB by using the following command

“esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/*DATASTORENAME*/Fusionio_bootbank_block-iomemory-vsl_3.1.5.126-1OEM.500.0.0.472560.vib”

Dell Fusion Io Drivers Windows 10

Once Installed, you should see something similar to the below.

Now to verify the driver has installed, we can use the “esxcli software vib list” command which should give us a result similar to the below.

Now if the driver appears like the above, reboot your host.

Once you have rebooted, SSH back to your host, and we now need to format the FusionIO card.

To do this use the below command.

Now you should be able to open the vSphere client, select your host and goto the configuration tab, Select “Storage Adapters” and you should see the FusionIO card show up like the below.

Now you can return to the “Storage” menu and use “add Storage” too format the card with VMFS.

Now your ready to use your FusionIO card.