![]() SanDisk Fusion-io ioDrive installation on VMware vSphere ESXi. SanDisk Fusion-io ioDrive. That HP cards running Ubuntu Linux can use standard Fusion-io drivers. So, we need to intall Fusion-IO drivers. They are available for ESX(i) 4.0, 4.1 e 5.0. Having driver in.vib format, you can use the usual method like any other third party driver inside an ESXi server, first copying the.vib file inside ESXi and then issuing this command from the command line (or via ssh). Fusion-io ioDrive Duo [Editor forward] When Fusion-io released its ioDrive PCIe based SSD cards into the marketplace, companies like Facebook lined up to get ultra high performance storage. Likewise OEMs such as HP and Dell rushed to integrate Fusion-io drives into their designs. ![]() These drives were extremely fast, even faster than five year newer SATA III SSDs we have today. Recently, users in the have been finding on the Fusion-io ioDrives and have been doing work to get these working in newer systems. Mark Ma is one of these contributors and has provided today’s guide on how to get a HP ioDrive working on a non-HP system. This guide helped me get a Fusion-io ioDrive 160GB SLC drive working that has both low latency and endurance allowing for over 460,000 full drive writes (75PBW). Thank you to Mark for all of your work on this. Getting a HP Fusion-io ioDrive Duo to work with Windows Server 2012 R2 HP introduced the PCIe-based Fusion-io ioDrive Duo Accelerator Card around 2010. It was targeted for ProLiant G6/G7 server family and offered over 100,000 IOPs, read over 700 MB/s and write over 600 MB/s. We are reviewing the SLC based HP 320GB SLC PCIe ioDrive Duo today. It has two 160 GB SSDs on the PCI-E card. Fusion Io DriversEach of the two cards should have around 75PBW of write endurance. Installing the Fusion-io ioDrive Driver After installing the Fusion-io card into server,Windows Server 2012R2 does not recognize the drive by default. Fusion-io ioDrive installation – Windows – device manager not recognized One needs to find the proper drivers and firmware to make these cards work. Fusion-io requires registration for driver/firmware download but these cards can be vendor locked. This is a HP unit which requires HP firmware. To get the firmware: Search 600281-B21 (320GB SLC Duo), 600278-B21 (SLC 160GB) and etc for MLC parts: Fusion-io ioDrive installation – HP Support Part Number Search Search for the OS, in this case Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Sandisk Fusion Io DriversFusion-io ioDrive installation – HP Support- OS select Ther are two downloads for Windows Server 2012 R2. One 3.2.8-HP-Windows.zip is the latest driver and firmware. IoSphere is the management tool. Fusion-io ioDrive installation – HP Support- Windows Download Once downloaded install the Windows package: Fusion-io ioDrive installation – HP Support- Windows install Once complete, the HP IO Accelerator will show up in the device manager: Fusion-io ioDrive installation – Windows – device manager recognized Installing the Fusion-io ioDrive management tool and firmware Next install the management tool: Fusion-io ioDrive installation – Windows – management Fusion-io cards require matching firmware and drivers. This is different in many ways to how NVMe PCIe drives behave but it is something to remember with the ioDrive series. To ensure you have proper firmware first create the following folder and place firmware (with ffff extension) in there. C: Program Files Fusion-io ioMemory VSL Firmware (if this is not created or firmware is not in place firmware will not be detected) Fusion-io ioDrive installation – Windows – firmware Launch web console: Fusion-io ioDrive installation – web console After login, there is a warning saying that the firmware is out date: Fusion-io ioDrive installation – web console – firmware out of date Choose update firmware Fusion-io ioDrive installation – web console – select firmware It takes about 15 mins to flash the firmware and is faster on the standard cards than the Duo cards. After it is complete, reboot the system and the drive may not show up in device manager. Enter Competitions. Bin Weevil Name.
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