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Lsi raid driver drivers#

They still list VMWare drivers also so ESXi can talk with the card as designed. We are only looking at the INTEL RAID as there is an on board connector, however the internal meeting it was decided we were going to standardize on ARECA RAID cards as they have an Ethernet port built right in to the card with its own IP address, making all the above redundant as management would be right from that IP address of the RAID card and management that talks directly to the on board RAID card separate IP address. I really could do with an Intel tech input here who can confirm what needs to be loaded and confirm it works (worries me there not listed on Intel drivers site) I cant seem to find any SMIS drivers for Intel and there RAID cards, it doesnt appear to be in the offline bundle above from VMWare, so i really need a response from someone who has this working, as i spent 4-8 weeks getting LSI working (which i can repeat now in 10 mins as i know what the process is).

Lsi raid driver driver#

However to manage RAID cards this must be remote from there management tools (as you shown the RAID Web Console), what i need to know is if this works with the VMWare driver, again LSI had MAJOR flaws with there management (MegaRAID Manager) not working with ANY of the ESXi confirmed drivers, until i loaded the SMIS driver (which is impossible to find) AND made sure ALL DNS reverse looks up worked and even then i needed an SLP PHP healer script running as LSI did not load that in there MegaRAID management utility, nor there ESXi drivers (whereas PROMISE controllers did).

Your notice though this is the 8 port driver, not 4 port, not looked for that one VMware Compatibility Guide - I/O Device Search with this in mind i found the driver for the Intel RAID from VMware on the below link (after posting this, was by pure luck): I have spent hours researching and perfecting drivers for LSI hardware, even LSI no longer supply them, only VMWare seem to now. I tried to at least give a solid overview in my initial post.Thanks for taking the time to respond, however with ESXi they must be VMWare compliant drivers and the correct ones, ESXi is based on Linux, but it is not a Linux system in itself. If you need more info from me, please say so, so I can provide it. If anyone has any light they can shed on this subject, please reply.

Lsi raid driver install#

Ouside of being lost there, I assume that when this all finishes, I will have some module package either megaraid_sas.o or megaraid_sas.ko that I can drop into my install and set to load via rc.conf. How am I to test the installation? I'm on an Arch box right now and the whole point of this was to get something I could successfully install on Arch.

Specifically, I am lost at the 'Download and test the installation' heading. However, to be fair, I haven't coded since my C++ in college and it's been a while. My understanding is that since this driver isn't going to be available in the Arch Build System, I should follow the guide at to make a PKGBUILD. I have downloaded and extracted the source for the Slack driver and am in that directory with a nf, Makefile, megaraid_sas.c, megaraid_sas.h, and Module.supported in it, along with two folders worth of patches and the like. I decided that the Slackware driver is probably the best place to start since rpms and debs are more distro-specific and since between the other two Slackware is more current than Scientific.

Lsi raid driver code#

Here's what I have and know:ДЇirst, I went to вЂ¦ index.html and looked at the different drivers they had source code for. Obviously, Arch Linux isn't going to be officially supported by any manufacturer, so I went with a card that fit the price and feature set I wanted and decided I'll do battle later. However, I just built out a new workstation and need some assistance trying to get my RAID card up and running. I've been on Arch for about 6 months now and love it.