HP PCIe IO Accelerators for ProLiant Servers User Manual
HP PCIe IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers
Part Number 607720-002
User Guide
November 2010 (Second Edition)
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Contents
About this guide ........................................................................................................................... 7
Contents summary ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 8
Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Performance attributes ................................................................................................................................ 8
Packing list ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Required operating environment .................................................................................................................. 9
Supported firmware revisions .......................................................................................................... 10
Supported hardware ...................................................................................................................... 10
Hardware installation .................................................................................................................. 12
Installing the HP PCIe IO Accelerator ......................................................................................................... 12
Installing a half-height bracket ......................................................................................................... 15
Installing the HP PCIe IO Accelerator Duo ................................................................................................... 18
Linux environments ...................................................................................................................... 21
Linux installation requirements ................................................................................................................... 21
Downloading and installing the driver and utilities using Linux ...................................................................... 21
Installing the HP installer script ........................................................................................................ 22
Loading the IO Accelerator driver using Linux ............................................................................................. 23
Setting the driver options .......................................................................................................................... 24
Module parameters ....................................................................................................................... 24
One-time configuration ................................................................................................................... 25
Persistent configuration ................................................................................................................... 25
Controlling driver loading ............................................................................................................... 25
Upgrading firmware using Linux ................................................................................................................ 27
Uninstalling and upgrading the driver using Linux ........................................................................................ 28
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Linux .............................................................................................. 30
Using the Logical Volume Manager ........................................................................................................... 30
Configuring RAID for Linux ....................................................................................................................... 30
RAID0/Striped .............................................................................................................................. 31
RAID1/Mirrored ............................................................................................................................ 31
RAID 10 ....................................................................................................................................... 31
Setting up SNMP for Linux ........................................................................................................................ 32
SNMP details for Linux ................................................................................................................... 32
SNMP master agent ....................................................................................................................... 32
Launching the SNMP master agent .................................................................................................. 32
Configuring the SNMP master agent ................................................................................................ 32
Running the SNMP master agent ..................................................................................................... 33
SNMP agentx subagent .................................................................................................................. 33
Troubleshooting SNMP ................................................................................................................... 37
SNMP MIB fields supporting Linux ................................................................................................... 37
Windows Server environments ..................................................................................................... 40
Uninstalling a previously-installed driver ..................................................................................................... 40
Installing software on a Windows system ................................................................................................... 40
Using the Setup Wizard ................................................................................................................. 41
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Manual installation on Windows Server ..................................................................................................... 45
Manual installation on Windows Server 2003 .................................................................................. 46
Manual installation on Windows Server 2008 .................................................................................. 47
Upgrading the device firmware using Windows .......................................................................................... 47
Checking for outdated or old firmware ............................................................................................. 47
Viewing the firmware version .......................................................................................................... 48
Performing the upgrade .................................................................................................................. 48
Upgrading driver software using Windows ................................................................................................. 49
Upgrading driver software using Windows in a non-RAID configuration ............................................... 49
Upgrading driver software using Windows in a RAID configuration ..................................................... 49
Defragmentation ..................................................................................................................................... 50
IO Accelerator naming ............................................................................................................................. 50
Adding a file system, formatting, and performing multi-disk configuration ....................................................... 51
Creating a RAID configuration .................................................................................................................. 52
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Windows operating system ............................................................... 52
Setting up SNMP for Windows operating systems ....................................................................................... 52
SNMP details for Windows operating systems ................................................................................... 52
Using test mode registry values ........................................................................................................ 53
SNMP MIB fields supporting Windows Server ................................................................................... 54
Using installation logs .............................................................................................................................. 56
Windows Installer logging options ................................................................................................... 57
Creating an installation log ............................................................................................................. 57
Creating an uninstall log ................................................................................................................ 58
Creating a patch install log ............................................................................................................. 58
Automated logging with the Windows Installer Logging Policy ............................................................ 58
Troubleshooting event log messages ................................................................................................ 59
VMWare ESX environments ......................................................................................................... 61
Creating the ESX IO Accelerator driver CD ................................................................................................. 61
Installing the driver as part of a new ESX installation .................................................................................... 61
Installing the driver using vihostupdate ....................................................................................................... 61
Installing the driver using esxupdate .......................................................................................................... 62
Installing the IO Accelerator utilities using ESX ............................................................................................ 62
Configuring the IO Accelerator using ESX ................................................................................................... 63
Upgrading the firmware using ESX ............................................................................................................ 64
Working with IO Accelerator devices and PCI pass-through .......................................................................... 64
Using IO Accelerator Duos with PCI pass-through .............................................................................. 64
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with ESX ................................................................................................ 65
Disabling the driver using ESX .................................................................................................................. 65
Enabling the driver using ESX ................................................................................................................... 65
Uninstalling the driver utilities using ESX ..................................................................................................... 65
HP IO Accelerator Management Tool ............................................................................................ 66
Operating system support ......................................................................................................................... 66
Linux ............................................................................................................................................ 66
Windows ..................................................................................................................................... 66
Software installation ................................................................................................................................ 66
Installing software using Linux ......................................................................................................... 66
IO Accelerator management ..................................................................................................................... 67
Device report ................................................................................................................................ 67
Performance report ........................................................................................................................ 69
IO Accelerator Management Tool interface options ............................................................................ 69
Detached IO Accelerator after installation ......................................................................................... 70
Navigating the IO Accelerator Management Tool .............................................................................. 70
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Device Tree ............................................................................................................................................ 71
Drive status ................................................................................................................................... 72
Device Report panel ................................................................................................................................ 75
Saving IO Accelerator information ................................................................................................... 77
Performance monitoring ........................................................................................................................... 77
Operations ............................................................................................................................................. 78
Update firmware ........................................................................................................................... 79
Firmware already updated.............................................................................................................. 82
Attach Device ............................................................................................................................... 83
Attaching mixed attached/detached devices ..................................................................................... 84
Detach Device ............................................................................................................................... 84
Detaching mixed attached/detached devices .................................................................................... 85
Low level format ............................................................................................................................ 85
IO Accelerator Management Tool Menu ..................................................................................................... 87
Maintenance .............................................................................................................................. 89
Maintenance tools ................................................................................................................................... 89
PCIe IO Accelerator LED indicators ............................................................................................................ 89
Common maintenance tasks ..................................................................................................................... 90
Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package.................................................................................. 90
Disabling auto attach ..................................................................................................................... 90
Enabling auto attach ...................................................................................................................... 91
Unmanaged shutdown issues .......................................................................................................... 92
Utilities ...................................................................................................................................... 93
Utilities reference ..................................................................................................................................... 93
fio-attach ................................................................................................................................................ 94
fio-beacon .............................................................................................................................................. 94
fio-bugreport ........................................................................................................................................... 95
fio-config (Windows only)......................................................................................................................... 95
fio-config options ........................................................................................................................... 95
fio-detach ............................................................................................................................................... 96
fio-format ............................................................................................................................................... 96
fio-pci-check ........................................................................................................................................... 97
fio-read-lebmap (Linux only) ...................................................................................................................... 97
fio-snmp-agentx (Linux only) ...................................................................................................................... 97
fio-status ................................................................................................................................................. 98
fio-trim-config ........................................................................................................................................ 100
fio-update-iodrive .................................................................................................................................. 100
Monitoring IO Accelerator health ............................................................................................... 102
NAND flash and component failure ......................................................................................................... 102
Health metrics ....................................................................................................................................... 102
Health monitoring techniques .................................................................................................................. 102
Flashback substitution events ................................................................................................................... 103
Software RAID and health monitoring ...................................................................................................... 103
Trim support (Windows only) ..................................................................................................... 105
Introduction to Trim ................................................................................................................................ 105
Trim platforms ....................................................................................................................................... 105
Using Trim ............................................................................................................................................ 105
Starting and stopping Trim ............................................................................................................ 106
Enabling Trim .............................................................................................................................. 106
Controlling Trim aggressiveness..................................................................................................... 106
Trim configurations ................................................................................................................................ 107
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Using Windows page files with the IO Accelerator ....................................................................... 108
Introduction to Windows page files ......................................................................................................... 108
Configuring IO Accelerator paging support .............................................................................................. 108
RAM consumption ....................................................................................................................... 108
Non-paged memory pool ............................................................................................................. 109
Enabling and disabling paging support .......................................................................................... 109
Windows page file management ............................................................................................................. 110
Setting up page files .................................................................................................................... 110
System drive paging file configuration ............................................................................................ 111
Guaranteeing minimum commitable memory ................................................................................... 111
Verifying page file operation ........................................................................................................ 112
Virtual Memory performance .................................................................................................................. 112
Resources ................................................................................................................................ 113
Subscription service ............................................................................................................................... 113
For more information ............................................................................................................................. 113
Documentation feedback ........................................................................................................................ 113
Technical support ...................................................................................................................... 114
Before you contact HP ............................................................................................................................ 114
HP contact information ........................................................................................................................... 114
Customer Self Repair ............................................................................................................................. 114
Regulatory compliance notices ................................................................................................... 122
Regulatory compliance identification numbers ........................................................................................... 122
European Union regulatory notice ........................................................................................................... 122
Disposal of waste equipment by users in private households in the European Union ....................................... 123
Taiwan battery recycling notice ............................................................................................................... 123
Acronyms and abbreviations ...................................................................................................... 124
Index ....................................................................................................................................... 128
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About this guide
Contents summary
• Installing the IO Accelerator
• Downloading and installing the approved driver and utilities
• Maintaining the IO Accelerator
• Description of the following IO Accelerator models:
o HP PCIe IO Accelerator
o HP PCIe IO Accelerator Duo
This user guide is intended for IO Accelerator software release 2.1 or later. For version 1.2.7.x, see the
previous version of this user guide.
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