Fusion Io Drivers Esxi
Posted By admin On 18.09.19Last week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in vSphere Update Manager (VUM) and deployed the new drivers to the cluster.
Today we have the Fusion-io ioDrive installation on VMware vShphere 5.5 guide for the VMware users. In case you missed it – we had our install a Fusion-io ioDrive on Windows guide posted recently and notes on Ubuntu and Proxmox (Debian custom build) with Fusion-io.VMware applications are broad and high-speed storage, especially when multiple VMs are hitting a datastore, is essential. This package includes a device driver for Fusion-io iomemory sx300 & sx350 PCIE SSD supporting Vmware ESXi. Supported systems. This package has been approved for use with the following systems: ioMemory SX300. RD450; RD650. IoMemory SX350. RD350; RD450; RD550; RD650; TD350. Supported operating.
After the installation of the Fusion-IO drivers on the ESXi hosts, the Fusion-IO card was not listed in the vSphere (Web) client. Via SSH I make a connection the the ESXi servers. When i run the fio-status command the following warning appeared:
Driver is in Minimal mode: The firmware on this device is not compatible with the currently installed version of the driver.
ACTIVE WARNINGS: The ioMemory is currently running in a minimal state.
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The warning means that the firmware needs to be upgraded. I uploaded the firmware to a central datastore and run the following command:
fio-update-iodrive firmwarefilename.fff
When the firmware upgrade completed, the ESXi servers needed to restart.
After the rebootI checked the status with the fio-status command again. The Fusion-IO card is out of minimal mode.
After the firmware upgrade the Fusion-IO card is listed again.
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Last week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in vSphere Update Manager (VUM) and deployed the new drivers to the cluster.
After the installation of the Fusion-IO drivers on the ESXi hosts, the Fusion-IO card was not listed in the vSphere (Web) client. Via SSH I make a connection the the ESXi servers. When i run the fio-status command the following warning appeared:
Driver is in Minimal mode: The firmware on this device is not compatible with the currently installed version of the driver.
ACTIVE WARNINGS: The ioMemory is currently running in a minimal state.
The warning means that the firmware needs to be upgraded. I uploaded the firmware to a central datastore and run the following command:
fio-update-iodrive firmwarefilename.fff
When the firmware upgrade completed, the ESXi servers needed to restart.
Fusion Io Drivers Esxi
After the rebootI checked the status with the fio-status command again. The Fusion-IO card is out of minimal mode.
After the firmware upgrade the Fusion-IO card is listed again.