Fusion Io Drivers Windows 10

Dell 24X4P Fusion 1.2tb MLC SSD ioDrive Duo PCIe Solid State Drive. In our gaming trace the ioDrive came in at the top and bottom depending on its configuration. A scalable multi-queue block layer for the Linux kernel was developed by Fusion-io engineers Axboe and Shaohua Li, and merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 3.
Hello all, I've got a fusionIO IODrive2 pcie card and have tried in in my macpro4.1-5.1 computer, but there don't appear to be any drivers out there that work with it. The latest version officially created is for Yosemite however this refuses to load on future versions as it seems to be OS.
Driver Fusion 5.5 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows 10 PCs but also without a hitch on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Compatibility with this software may vary, but will generally run fine under Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP on either a 32-bit or 64-bit setup.
Operating System Driver Provider Driver Version; Download Driver: Windows XP (64 bit) Fusion-io: 1.2.7.1 Download Driver: Windows Server 2003 (64 bit).

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The driver is not actually for the SSD but for the SATA controller in your PC. Windows 10 should have all SATA drivers for AHCI, Legacy, or RAID included in the OS. Make sure you have updated to the to the latest updates for windows 10. If you the driver is still missing you may need to check with a microsoft forum. Fusion-io develops PCIe based NAND flash memory cards and related software that can be used to speed up MariaDB databases. The ioDrive branded products can be used as block devices (super-fast disks) or to extend basic DRAM memory. IoDrive is deployed by installing it on an x86 server and then installing the card driver under the operating system. VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5, Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V.Write BW achieved with optional high power mode. Maximum Write bandwidth performance of 1.6 GB/s achievable within 25 W power limit.

25 April 2014Andrea Mauro

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Fusion-IO is a well-know company in the host-side flash solutions to accelerates databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and the applications without change your storage. Their In-Server Acceleration products are impressive (sometime also in the price) and can provide up to 10.24TB of flash to maximize performance for large data sets, or also solutions for blade server (with the ioDrive2^® Mezzanine).

Thanks to Fusion-IO Italy I’ve got the opportunity to test thee Fusion-io 410GB ioScale, the smallest model of this product line (ioScale products use MLC technology and are in these capacities: 410GB, 825GB, 1650GB, 3.2TB), but enough to provide good performance and enable my environment to do some tests (anyway they are the second Generation ioScale Device).

Note that there are also several software layer in order to provide also high level functions, like ioTurbine Virtual, ioCache, ioVDI, … but of course you can use the server cards also with other 3rd part software that can manage flash storage like this card or local SSD disks.

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After you have installed the cards in your hosts (really important is use recent hosts with faster PCI-e bus and follow the installation guide for the notes about power management and temperature control) you have to add some drivers. Those can been obtained from the Fusion-IO support site (and you will need to register and account and a product in order to start the download):

For VMware ESXi-5.5 the last version is 3.2.6, but there are also drivers also for other hypervisors or just for physical servers.

You can verify that the Fusion-IO cards are installed if you can see them in the PCI bus of the host:
# lspci | grep Fusio 0000:41:00.0 Mass storage controller: Fusion-io ioDrive2 [fioiom0]
At this point you can add the drivers and the library of the cards. One simple way is just use the VMware Update Manager (VUM) and import the two required files in the repository and then add to a baseline.

Remediation must done in sequence: first the driver part as in the remediation selection.

And then the library package.

At this point you can see a new storage adapter with the corresponding block storage (type SSD):

You can start using it as a local disk (if you want make some speed tests) using the ioMemory device as VMFS datastore within the hypervisor, and then sharing that storage with guest operating systems. Guest operating systems can be 32-bit or 64-bit because they are not directly using the ioMemory device. Another option is using VMDirectPathIO, allow a virtual machine to directly use the ioMemory device. In this case, only supported operating systems can use the device and if you are using VMDirectPathIO, you do not need to install the ioMemory VSL software on the ESXi system.

But the must interesting use is as a host cache with caching software, or a support for some Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) or some kind of Software Defined Storage (SDS). In next posts I will describe some tests with PernixData and VSAN.

On the hosts side some new CLI command were also add (in the /opt/fio/bin directory). The most insteresting are the one related with the reformattation of the flash by choosing a different block size: some OSes still need a 512 Byte block size and can have some performance issues with the new 4k standard (note that ioFX devices are pre-formatted with 4kB sector sizes; all other ioMemory devices are formatted to 512B sectors when shipped). According with the documentation for ESXi the recomented block size is 512B.
/opt/fio/bin # fio-format -h Fusion-io format utility (v3.2.6.1219 [email protected]) usage: fio-format [options] <device> [B,K,M,G,T,P,%] are <u>nits: Bytes, KBytes, MBytes, GBytes, TBytes, PBytes and percent. Options: -b, --block-size <size>[B,K] Set the block (sector) size, in Bytes or KiBytes (base 2). -s, --device-size <size>[<u>] Size to format device where max size is default capacity. -o, --overformat <size>[<u>] Overformat device size where max size is maximum physical capacity. -P, --enable-persistent-trim Make persistent trim feature available on the device. -R, --slow-rescan Disable fast rescan on unclean shutdown to reclaim some capacity. -f, --force Force formatting outside standard limits. -q, --quiet Quiet mode - do not print progress. -y, --yes Auto answer 'yes' to all confirmation requests. -v, --version Print version information. -h, --help Print the help menu.
Bus speed could be checked with a specific command (or also by the next one):
/opt/fio/bin # fio-pci-check -v Root Bridge PCIe 2000 MB/sec needed max ioDrive 00:41.0 (2001) Firmware 0 Current control settings: 0x283e Correctable Error Reporting: disabled Non-Fatal Error Reporting: enabled Fatal Error Reporting: enabled Unsupported Request Reporting: enabled Payload size: 256 Max read size: 512 Current status: 0x0000 Correctable Error(s): None Non-Fatal Error(s): None Fatal Error(s): None Unsupported Request(s): None link_capabilities: 0x0000f442 Maximum link speed: 5.0 Gb/s per lane Maximum link width: 4 lanes Slot Power limit: 25.0W (25000mw) Current link_status: 0x00000042 Link speed: 5.0 Gb/s per lane Link width is 4 lanes Current link_control: 0x00000000 Not modifying link enabled state Not forcing retrain of link
Most information could be gain by the fio-status command that has several useful options to limit the visualization only to errors and related messages (-e) or just dump the all available information (-a)
/opt/fio/bin # fio-status -a Found 1 ioMemory device in this system Driver version: 3.2.6 build 1219 Adapter: ioMono Fusion-io 410GB ioScale2, Product Number:F11-003-410G-CS-0001, SN:1345G0233, FIO SN:1345G0233 ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, PN:PA005004005 External Power: NOT connected PCIe Bus voltage: avg 11.93V PCIe Bus current: avg 0.69A PCIe Bus power: avg 8.28W PCIe Power limit threshold: 24.75W PCIe slot available power: unavailable Connected ioMemory modules: fct0: Product Number:F11-003-410G-CS-0001, SN:1345G0233 fct0 Attached ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, Product Number:F11-003-410G-CS-0001, SN:1345G0233 ioDrive2 Adapter Controller, PN:PA005004005 SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.13.0, Boot Version: 1.0.4.1 Powerloss protection: protected PCI:41:00.0, Slot Number:1 Vendor:1aed, Device:2001, Sub vendor:1aed, Sub device:2001 Firmware v7.1.15, rev 110356 Public 410.00 GBytes device size Format: v500, 800781250 sectors of 512 bytes PCIe slot available power: 25.00W PCIe negotiated link: 4 lanes at 5.0 Gt/sec each, 2000.00 MBytes/sec total Internal temperature: 52.66 degC, max 59.55 degC Internal voltage: avg 1.01V, max 1.02V Aux voltage: avg 2.48V, max 2.49V Reserve space status: Healthy; Reserves: 100.00%, warn at 10.00% Active media: 100.00% Rated PBW: 2.00 PB, 100.00% remaining Lifetime data volumes: Physical bytes written: 45,701,644,712 Physical bytes read : 22,004,442,720 RAM usage: Current: 153,816,384 bytes Peak : 3,351,972,480 bytes Contained VSUs: fioiom0: ID:0, UUID:c29b73cc-088a-48b0-b47a-a5a435be88ed fioiom0 State: Online, Type: block device ID:0, UUID:c29b73cc-088a-48b0-b47a-a5a435be88ed 410.00 GBytes device size Format: 800781250 sectors of 512 bytes

Block size, bus speed, storage usage could all been monitored by this command. Note the internal temperature caused mainly by the form factor of the server (in this case was a R620 1U, on a closest R720 with 2U the reported temperature was: 42.33 degC, max 47.74 degC).

And there is also the fio-update-iodrive in order to update the firmware of the cards.

Note also that you can found on the company site a nice video with a A Brief History of NAND Flash Storage.

Andrea Mauro

Virtualization, Cloud and Storage Architect. Tech Field delegate.VMUG IT Co-Founder and board member. VMware VMTN Moderator and vExpert 2010-20 and vExpert Pro. Dell TechCenter Rockstar 2014-15. Microsoft MVP 2014-16. Veeam Vanguard 2015-19. Nutanix NTC 2014-20.Several certifications including: VCDX-DCV, VCP-DCV/DT/Cloud, VCAP-DCA/DCD/CIA/CID/DTA/DTD, MCSA, MCSE, MCITP, CCA, NPP.

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