HP B-series Switch Accelerators ESXi/ESX Manuel d'utilisateur

HP IO Accelerator version 3.1.1 VMware ESX and ESXi User Guide Abstract This document describes software requirements for all relevant HP IO Acceler

Introduction 10 • Sufficient RAM to operate—The amount of RAM that the driver requires to manage the NAND flash varies according to the block size

Introduction 11 IO Accelerators cannot be installed as part of an ESX or ESXi installation.

Software installation 12 Software installation VMDirectPathIO The VSL software is only required for ESX or ESXi if you plan to use the IO Accelerato

Software installation 13 Installation overview Before installing the IO Accelerator driver, make sure you have properly installed the IO Accelerator

Software installation 14 Transferring the VSL files to the ESX or ESXi server You must transfer the firmware file to the ESX or ESXi host. Depending

Software installation 15 Installing the VSL on ESXi 5.0 These instructions describe how to install the VSL on a single hypervisor. However, if you a

Software installation 16 Installing the VSL on ESX or ESXi 4.x using vCLI IMPORTANT: Do not save the installation bundles to the ESX or ESXi 4.x

Software installation 17 NOTE: When using PCI pass-through, if you upgrade the firmware on an IO Accelerator, you must cycle the power for the ch

Software installation 18 CAUTION: Upgrading IO Accelerator devices that were previously configured for VSL 1.x.x or 2.x.x to work with VSL 3.x.x r

Software installation 19 c. Reboot the system. 4. Update the firmware on each device to the latest version using the fio-update-iodrive TSM or COS

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Software installation 20 CAUTION: ESX and ESXi require 512B sector sizes. New IO Accelerator devices come pre-formatted with 512B sector sizes fro

Software installation 21 An ESXi host has the following: • Memory capacity of 36,852 MB • Total IO Accelerator device datastore capacity of 320 GB

Maintenance 22 Maintenance Maintenance tools The IO Accelerator includes both software utilities to maintain the device and external LED indicators

Maintenance 23 Command line utility Purpose fio-format (on page 32) Used to perform a low-level format of an IO Accelerator fio-pci-check (ESX only)

Maintenance 24 Important considerations • If you are installing more than one dual IO Accelerator device and enabling the override parameter for ea

Maintenance 25 1149D0969,1159E0972,24589 NOTE: The remote option (--server) is only required for the vCLI. 3. Reboot the system to enable the

Maintenance 26 Disabling auto attach When the IO Accelerator driver is installed, it is configured to automatically attach any devices when the driv

Maintenance 27 vihostupdate --server <server-name> --query Sample output: ---------Bulletin ID--------- iomemory-vsl-2.2.0.7601742 -----Instal

Performance and tuning 28 Performance and tuning Introduction to performance and tuning HP IO Accelerator devices provide high bandwidth and high IO

Utilities 29 Utilities Utilities reference These command-line utilities are only accessible through VMware TSM, also known as SSH, on ESXi and the C

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Utilities 30 NOTE: If multiple IO Accelerator devices are installed in a computer, they attach in parallel. Syntax fio-attach <device> [

Utilities 31 NOTE: If the utility recommends that you contact Fusion-io support, disregard that message and contact HP support (http://www.hp.com

Utilities 32 For example, the filename for a bug report file named fio-bugreport-20111006.173256-sc07HE.tar.gz indicates the following: • Date (201

Utilities 33 Syntax fio-format [options] <device> where <device> is the name of the device node (/dev/fctx), where x indicates the card

Utilities 34 fio-pci-check [options] Options Description -d <value> 1 = Disable the link; 0 = bring the link up (HP does not recommend this

Utilities 35 IMPORTANT: Starting with version 3.0.0 and later, the standard formatting of the fio-status output changed. The changing of the forma

Utilities 36 o Date of manufacture o Power loss protection status o PCIe bus voltage (average, minimum, maximum) o PCIe bus current (average, max

Utilities 37 To ensure a clean firmware update, you must detach the device from the system using the fio-detach utility. For more information, see &

Utilities 38 CAUTION: Use the -f option with care because it might damage your board. CAUTION: Use the {{-d}} option with care, because upda

Monitoring IO Accelerator health 39 Monitoring IO Accelerator health NAND flash and component failure The IO Accelerator is a highly fault-tolerant

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Monitoring IO Accelerator health 40 Lifetime data volumes: Physical bytes written: 6,423,563,326,064 Physical bytes read : 5,509,006,756,312 Fl

Module parameters 41 Module parameters Using module parameters The following table describes the module parameters you can set using the esxcfg-modu

VMDirectPathIO 42 VMDirectPathIO Working with IO Accelerators and VMDirectPathIO Each IO Accelerator device can either be used as a VMFS datastore i

Resources 43 Resources Subscription service HP recommends that you register your product at the Subscriber’s Choice for Business website (http://www

Support and other resources 44 Support and other resources Before you contact HP Be sure to have the following information available before you call

Support and other resources 45 providers or service partners) identifies that the repair can be accomplished by the use of a CSR part, HP will ship

Support and other resources 46 Pour plus d'informations sur le programme CSR de HP, contactez votre Mainteneur Agrée local. Pour plus d'in

Support and other resources 47 HINWEIS: Einige Teile sind nicht für Customer Self Repair ausgelegt. Um den Garantieanspruch des Kunden zu erfüllen,

Support and other resources 48 sustituciones que lleve a cabo el cliente, HP se hará cargo de todos los gastos de envío y devolución de componentes

Support and other resources 49 Opcional – Peças cujo reparo feito pelo cliente é opcional. Essas peças também são projetadas para o reparo feito pel

About this guide 5 About this guide Contents summary • Instructions on downloading and installing the approved driver and utilities • Instructions

Support and other resources 50

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Regulatory compliance notices 52 Regulatory compliance notices Regulatory compliance identification numbers For the purpose of regulatory compliance

Regulatory compliance notices 53 Disposal of waste equipment by users in private households in the European Union This symbol on the product or o

Acronyms and abbreviations 54 Acronyms and abbreviations CIM common information model COS console operating system DA direct attached DVFS dynami

Acronyms and abbreviations 55 VM Virtual Machine VMDK virtual machine disk format VMFS virtual machine file system VSL virtual storage layer VUM

Documentation feedback 56 Documentation feedback HP is committed to providing documentation that meets your needs. To help us improve the documentat

Index 57 A About this guide 5 authorized reseller 44 B before you begin 10 C command-line installation 12 command-line utilities 22 config

Index 58 P PCIe power override, enabling 23 PCIe power, enabling 19 performance and tuning 28 performance and tuning, introduction 28 perfor

Introduction 6 Introduction Overview Designed around ioMemory, a revolutionary storage architecture, HP IO Accelerator is an advanced NAND flash sto

Introduction 7 Performance attributes IO Accelerator capacity Models AJ878B and BK836A 320GB 640GB NAND type MLC (Multi Level Cell) MLC (Multi Le

Introduction 8 CAUTION: Version 3.1.1 of the driver software is not backward-compatible. When you install version 3.1.1, you cannot revert to any

Introduction 9 BladeSystem c-Class IO Accelerators have two distinct designs for the respective server product lines. The G1 through G7 IO Accelerat