Last week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in vSphere Update Manager (VUM) and deployed the new drivers to the cluster. After the installation of the Fusion-IO drivers on the ESXi hosts, the Fusion-IO card was not listed in the vSphere (Web) client.

Via SSH I make a connection the the ESXi servers. When i run the fio-status command the following warning appeared: Driver is in Minimal mode: The firmware on this device is not compatible with the currently installed version of the driver. ACTIVE WARNINGS: The ioMemory is currently running in a minimal state. The warning means that the firmware needs to be upgraded.

I uploaded the firmware to a central datastore and run the following command: fio-update-iodrive firmwarefilename.fff When the firmware upgrade completed, the ESXi servers needed to restart. After the rebootI checked the status with the fio-status command again. American Income Partners Gold Program Discounts On Car. The Fusion-IO card is out of minimal mode. After the firmware upgrade the Fusion-IO card is listed again.

I recently purchased two HP 380P Gen 8 servers with 365GB IODrive2s for VDI using Vmware View 5.2. After using the latest HP vmware 5.1 update 1 ESX installer and then installing the I was able to format the drive as VMFS5, create a pool and put the replica on the Fusion-io. All of these seemed to run about as fast as our two 15k SAS drives in RAID0.

Unsatisfied with the VDI experience we decide to create a pool with all components on the Fusion-io. The speed still didn't seem on par with what the spec sheets state. I finally did a test copy of from the Fusion-io to itself (from the ESXi ssh shell) and I am currently getting about 1GB per minute transfer rate. The white papers claim I should be getting around 500MBps. Here are some tests: # ls -lrt rw------- 1 root root Aug 22 11:43 VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-947939.iso # du -h 3.3G. From 4 drive RAID10 15k SAS to itself: cp VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-947939.iso test.iso takes 37s from 4 drive RAID10 15k SAS to Fusion-io: cp VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-947939.iso /vmfs/volumes/fusion2/test.iso takes 34 sec from Fusion-io to itself: cp test.iso test2.iso takes 78 sec from my desktop SSD to itself: 32s 7200rpm hard drive to itself: 115s I currently have a ticket open with HP and VMware but I am essentially getting fingerprinting. Kings Of Leon Only By The Night Rar 320 Guest there.

I am hoping someone in the community has solved my issues. Outputs from IOMeter using 8 workers with the all in one access spec for 1 hour: Samsung810 SSD IOPS Read IOps Write IOps MBps Read MBps Write MBps Transactions per Second 3385.1.2.860549 3385.116269 Fusion-io: IOPS Read IOps Write IOps MBps Read MBps Write MBps Transactions per Second 4 6570.6.272278 168.838123 4 4disk15kSAS: IOPS Read IOps Write IOps MBps Read MBps Write MBps Transactions per Second 3 5 9 805.541003 402.802938 402.74.07353. I haven't used FusionIO with VMWare before so I don't really have any answers for you.

But the performance is definitely not anywhere close to what you should be getting. Here's what I get creating a 1GB file on FusionIO under CentOS 6. # time (dd if=/dev/zero of=1gigfile bs=1M count=1024 && sync) 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 0.686625 s, 1.6 GB/s real0m1.107s user0m0.000s sys0m0.689s So over 1.6GB/sec written, 1.1 seconds to write and sync. – Aug 23 '13 at 19:15.

Our guide to installing an OEM branded (HP) Fusion-io ioDrive on Windows Server 2012 R2 including firmware flashing, driver installation and formatting. Fusion-io, the Fusion-io logo, ioMemory, Virtual Storage Layer, VSL, ioCache, ioSphere, ioScale, and ioDrive are registered trademarks, and Adaptive. Reboot the ESX(i) system; this will load the ioMemory VSL software driver and attach the ioMemory device(s). Determine if you need to upgrade the.