We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. ENTERPRISE SUPPORT PORTAL HAS MOVED TO NEW LOCATION. In the new portal you will find a wealth of useful support features from documents to downloads, knowledge base and case management. (1) 1 product ratings - Fusion-io ioDrive2 365GB MLC F00-001-365G-CS-0001 Solid State Drive. 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. Honestly, if I was putting out for a fusion-io and the right hardware to surround it with. I'd either pay iX. Compile it myself. Or just run an OS that supports the bloody card. FreeNAS is nice for some things, but at the end of the day it's just a GUI. BSD or IllumOS are far more flexible not to mention ZOL. If I sound jealous, I am.
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You have to register at FusionIO support site to download required RPMs.
Install cards to empty slots. This HOWTO (example) is for four cards.Check with lspci command if you see the hardware:
Software Installation
Compile and load driver itself:
Install other required RPMs:
Hardware checks and care
Load driver for first time and verify hardware state
Let's update firmware before we start use cards. The firnware file comes with fio-firmware RPM we installed before. Check the file name before doing update
Sandisk Fusion Io Drivers
Repeat this for every card. The warning about reboot is not a joke, the card should start it's new firmware. I'd recommend even shut serverto power off state and power it up again. This is the picture after reboot:
Using devices
Fusion Io Drivers Ubuntu
Formatting device with 4k page size will reduce memory usage of driver and improve performance.Scince Oracle use 8k as datablock size, 4k page size is quite suitable.
Repeat for all devices. Now attach block devices:
Create PV aligned to 4k. Create VG and stripped over all four cards LV optimized for 64k DMA size. Create EXT3 using 4k as block size.
Fusion Io Ioscale Drivers
Init scripts and auto mounts
It is looks like active cache resides in huge driver's memory allocation. Then it should be 'flushed' to deviceduring shutdown. This procedure includes umount, deactivating VG, deattaching fio devices. Deattaching doreal final writing. This mean that these cards does not like power cut-off and data may become corrupted.Consider good backup policy (as usual).
An RPM fio-sysvinit contains initscripts that works well; you just have to configure it.First of all fix /etc/fstab with noauto attribute:
Then disable udev taking care about FusionIO cards by editing /etc/modprobe.d/iomemory-vsl.conf as follow:
Verify that iomemory-vsl started at boot time:
Configure init script to do what you need by editting /etc/sysconfig/iomemory-vsl, like:
Edited strings are bolded here. Reboot server and verify boot messages, You SHOULD NOT SEE lines like that:
Performance test
Updated onWed Apr 4 13:17:52 IDT 2012More documentations here