Got my fusion I/O today. It looks like the firmware upgrade path for these is a bit tricky. Do you have any documentation you have followed? My first attempts to update the firmware kept telling me that the card was currently busy.
The documentation for Fusion-IO I found is for CentOS & ESXi driver, etc...Maybe @T_Minus would be kind enough to share a work instruction I whipped up covering the process :-D Don't wanna go outside the lines of our agreement but I had the Linux side covered for these.
Probably w/out going to NVMe and keeping it 'thrifty'. Just keep in mind, you will need good cooling and they come recognized in Linux/BSD as 4 seperate 200 gb ssd devices (at least on the Oracle F80) which is kind of nice from a flexability standpoint.is the LSI warp drive my next best choice? .....well I am sure there are better....but keeping it cheap.
Just set the IPMI fan speeds to whatever will drive sufficient cooling, should be a snap.I have been wondering about that lately. I am thinking since all my sotrage Devices are passed through to a VM I dont think they get adequately cooled since the server can no longer change fan speeds based on thier temps