Hp cciss linux utility driver#
For older Smart Arrays, the cciss driver should still be used. This "split-brained" design of the cciss driver is a source of excess complexity and eliminating that complexity is one of the reasons for hpsa to exist. The hpsa driver is a SCSI driver, while the cciss driver is a "block" driver. Tried it yesterday: Yes it works for me with ESXi 6.The hpsa driver is intended to supplant the cciss driver for newer Smart Array controllers. And stay away from the drive write cache dwc. The battery on my RAID controller seemed to be dead. This all will work fine as long as the Write Back Cache is working properly. First, I identified the physical disks in the controller pdthen I enabled the led on every single disk.
Remember is in slot 3, this will be needed in the next commands. And I finally reboot the server in order to complete the installation, hopefully for the last time….įrom here, let the fun begin! First, I identified the controller.
Hp cciss linux utility install#
If you want to install only the Raid utility, look for the hpacucli vib file. I also installed the utilities to manage the several HP components, since the first one was only the driver.
I downloaded it and installed in the usual way on my ESXi 5. So, since HP has always had management software for their raid controllers available for windows or linux, I went to check if there was some possibilities also for VMware ESXi. Also, every reboot cycle is really time consuming. My problem however was, I was running on top of this server all my iscsi shared storage, so it was not so easy to poweroff the server to open up the raid card Bios anche check.
I was running into performance issues, storage was performing poorly, and I needed to check for usual problems like for example cache battery status, since on a P raid card, write back is by default disabled if the battery has a low charge, thus lowering performances to a minimum.
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