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IBM High IOPS driver and utilities v2.3.10 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - IBM System x and BladeCenter

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2.3.10

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2 January 2013

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Abstract

Download the latest IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapter Driver (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) for IBM System x

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Supported controllers:

  • IBM 160GB High IOPS SS Class SSD PCIe Adapter (46M0884, 46M0877)
  • IBM 320GB High IOPS MS Class SSD PCIe Adapter (46M0897, 46M0898)
  • IBM 320GB High IOPS SD Class SSD PCIe Adapter (46M0885, 46M0878)
  • 640GB High IOPS MLC Duo Adapter for IBM System x (68Y7381, 81Y4519)
  • 320GB High IOPS SLC Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4535)
  • 640GB High IOPS MLC Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4531)
  • 640GB High IOPS SLC Duo Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4539)
  • 1.28TB High IOPS MLC Duo Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4527)

Supported 64-bit RHEL 5.x Kernels:

  • 2.6.18-8.el5
  • 2.6.18-8.el5xen
  • 2.6.18-53.el5
  • 2.6.18-53.el5xen
  • 2.6.18-92.el5
  • 2.6.18-92.el5xen
  • 2.6.18-128.el5
  • 2.6.18-128.el5xen
  • 2.6.18-164.el5
  • 2.6.18-164.el5xen
  • 2.6.18-194.el5
  • 2.6.18-194.el5xen
  • 2.6.18-238.el5
  • 2.6.18-238.el5xen

Severity: Suggested

Change history

Version 2.3.10-107053

Severity: - Supported Adapters: 50 - Low Probability of Occurrence/Special Case

Operating System Support:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4, 11, 11 SP1, 11 SP2
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server 64-Bit (with SP2 or higher)
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Server 64-Bit, R1 (with SP2 or higher)
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Server 64-Bit, R2
  • VMware Operating Systems, ESX 4.0 Update 4, ESX 4.1 Update 2, ESXi 4.1 Update 2, and ESXi 5.0

Enhancements:

  • New utility, fio-sure-erase, see the user guide for Linux or Windows for more details.
  • Support for PCIe gen3 with the fio-pci-check utility.
  • High IOPS Manager changed from a Java based graphical interface (in 2.2.3) to a web-based application that runs inside a browser (in 2.3.10).
  • Updated look and feel for High IOPS Manager
  • Added endurance fuel gage features to the graphical user interface.

Fixes

  • Corrected red/amber LED behavior during system startup (RETAIN Tip H205172)
  • Corrected fio-snmp-agentx that could use up to 100% of the CPU.
  • Corrected TRIM feature that was not working properly on RHEL 6.
  • Corrected the BLKGETSIZE ioctal calls failed when called from 32-bit user space.
  • Corrected a NUMA resource issue with Windows operating systems.

Version 2.2.3-101583 - Suggested

Enhancments:

  • Added Support for:
    • 320GB High IOPS SLC Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4535)
    • 640GB High IOPS MLC Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4531)
    • 640GB High IOPS SLC Duo Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4539)
    • 1.28TB High IOPS MLC Duo Adapter for IBM System x (81Y4527)

New Features:

  • Improved continuous write performance
  • Decreased memory utilization
  • Reduced groomer induced latency spikes (not an issue for most workloads)
  • Improved write endurance for all products.
  • Thermal monitoring and preemptive performance throttling / shutdown in over temp conditions to prevent thermal damage to IBM High IOPS SSD PCIe Adapters. See the user guides for further details.
  • 4k sector sizes, along with existing 512b sectors on most platforms.
  • Support for hosting a page file/ swap partition.
  • Parallel attach on driver load when auto_attach enabled (default), most platforms.
  • Parallel scan of all drives after a dirty shutdown.
  • Trim/Discard enabled by default.
  • Fine tuning options for preallocate mode.

Management/Utilities:

  • Driver and other configuration file name changes to iomemory-vsl and VSL.
  • fio-attach and fio-detach can take multiple /dev/fct* devices simultaneously.
  • New fio-format options and capabilities:
    • Don't prompt, was -f in 1.2.x, is now -y in 2.x.x.
    • Run quietly, -q.
  • fio-status
    • Added RAM usage statistics
    • Reports power related metrics.
    • Added PCIe width and other PCI related items.
  • Linux: Improved fio-status speed when driver loaded.
  • fio-status no longer displays 'unknown' if slot number is invalid, doesn't display the 'slot:' tag at all.

Fixes:

  • Fixed calculation in media health percentage.
  • Improvements in shutdown handling.
  • Work on systems with IOMMUs.
  • Fixed fio-status induced lockup.

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