Did I screw up? Fusion-IO

[HWGeek]

Hey guys,

got a Fusion-IO ioDrive 2 1.2TB for $475, felt like it was a good price so I bit. Was I in the wrong and too eager to get a deal, since I'm having plans on building a bare-metal hypervisor (KVM?) server and passing through that drive along with other PCI-E devices, however it seems Fusion-IO don't have the biggest variety of Linux driver so I'm a bit limited with regards to OS and will it work at all?

 

[T_Minus]

Works fine in linux

 

[whitey]

Hey guys,

got a Fusion-IO ioDrive 2 1.2TB for $475, felt like it was a good price so I bit. Was I in the wrong and too eager to get a deal, since I'm having plans on building a bare-metal hypervisor (KVM?) server and passing through that drive along with other PCI-E devices, however it seems Fusion-IO don't have the biggest variety of Linux driver so I'm a bit limited with regards to OS and will it work at all?

If you're going KVM on CentOS I know it works there. CentOS 6/7 tested.

 

[markpower28]

Very good deal for the price

 

[Patrick]

Nice deal. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS also will work with Fusion-io drivers.

 

[HWGeek]

OK thanks for the replies. Sometimes I get a bit too trigger-happy with regards to hardware and not think things through completely, but I just didn't see any options with similar endurance, capacity and performance in that price range. Did I miss anything there? Makes me feel better even if I might be a bit limited to older, well-tested distributions. @Patrick I read your article on getting it to work on newer Linuxes with not a great deal of success, any progress there? I kind of like to be on the frontlines of OS versions. Was optionally planning on using it as a SSD-cache for a HDD array, would that be OK?

 

[Biren78]

Fusion-IO as L2ARC is super sexy. I'd stick with a supported OS, try to update it and if it continues to work you are good. Start with known good.