Storage Performance advice

[modder man]

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.

 

[whitey]

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.

 

[T_Minus]

Let me see what I can do tomorrow

 

[modder man]

Did you find your documentation @T_Minus?

 

[T_Minus]

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.

The documentation for Fusion-IO I found is for CentOS & ESXi driver, etc...

I've updated Fusion-IO last year in Windows myself, but I can't find any guide from @whitey on this I know I followed something on the forum here or another forum but I don't have that info in front of me anymore.

 

[modder man]

no problem, I did find some things. just thought I would circle around with you and see if the documentation you had is better. Mine seems a bit vague, but I haven't had a time to further dig into it yet.

 

[modder man]

Well finally got the card updated and installed in the server yesterday....shortly after I learned it is not compatible with freenas...woops.

 

[T_Minus]

@modder man doh! That's no good

If you still have references to updating the card mind sharing them?

 

[whitey]

Those LSI warpdrives work damn well in FreeNAS as a FYI. Plug and play on pretty much EVERY OS.

 

[modder man]

is the LSI warp drive my next best choice? .....well I am sure there are better....but keeping it cheap.

 

[whitey]

is the LSI warp drive my next best choice? .....well I am sure there are better....but keeping it cheap.

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.

 

[modder man]

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

 

[whitey]

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

Just set the IPMI fan speeds to whatever will drive sufficient cooling, should be a snap.

 

[modder man]

well the Server is in colo so I was going to just set them to %100 though I wasnt sure how.