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trex1976
Joined: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:42 pm
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 Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 Can someone do something with these redhat drivers this is the R version of the 3132 this is what is needed to make enclosures with multipliers work
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| Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:56 pm |
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FatBoyTim
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:39 am
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 Dave.Mishchenko wrote: ESXi doesn't support software RAID so you'll want to reconfigure the drives to be individual disks. If you want to use a RAID 5 software card (Highpoint 2310) as a data drive within the guest OS (windows) will this work? I.e. the 4 disks are recognised by ESXi and passed through to windows, if the software / drivers are installed will windows then be able to see them as a single RAID disk? I understand why ESXi won't be able to see the RAID drive itself, but as I'm not going to use that drive for running any of the images I'm trying to find a way around so I can still use this RAID drive. Thanks FBT
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| Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:35 am |
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FatBoyTim
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:39 am
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 Dave.Mishchenko wrote: ESXi doesn't support software RAID so you'll want to reconfigure the drives to be individual disks. If you want to use a RAID 5 software card (Highpoint 2310) as a data drive within the guest OS (windows) will this work? I.e. the 4 disks are recognised by ESXi and passed through to windows, if the software / drivers are installed will windows then be able to see them as a single RAID disk? I understand why ESXi won't be able to see the RAID drive itself, but as I'm not going to use that drive for running any of the images I'm trying to find a way around so I can still use this RAID drive. Thanks FBT
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| Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:53 am |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:13 pm
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 FatBoyTim wrote: Dave.Mishchenko wrote: ESXi doesn't support software RAID so you'll want to reconfigure the drives to be individual disks. If you want to use a RAID 5 software card (Highpoint 2310) as a data drive within the guest OS (windows) will this work? I.e. the 4 disks are recognised by ESXi and passed through to windows, if the software / drivers are installed will windows then be able to see them as a single RAID disk? I understand why ESXi won't be able to see the RAID drive itself, but as I'm not going to use that drive for running any of the images I'm trying to find a way around so I can still use this RAID drive. Thanks FBT If the system supported Intel VT-d (directed I/O) or AMD IOMMU then you could use VMdirectpath to pass the controller (and all attached disks) directly to the VM. _________________Dave Mishchenko VMware vExpert 2009-2012  Now available - VMware ESXi: Planning, Implementation, and SecurityAlso available - vSphere Quick Start Guide
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FatBoyTim
Joined: Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:39 am
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 Dave.Mishchenko wrote: If the system supported Intel VT-d (directed I/O) or AMD IOMMU then you could use VMdirectpath to pass the controller (and all attached disks) directly to the VM. That's not quite what I was meaning... I figured that would be the case but that means you can only have one guest OS, right? Which rather defeats the point of virtualisation  If the VM host is presenting 4 individual disks to the guest OS, is there any reason why, with the software RAID installed on that virtual machine, the guest OS could not be configured to see 1 RAID drive even if the underlying host sees all the disks individually? Thanks FBT
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| Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:15 am |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 Quote: If the VM host is presenting 4 individual disks to the guest OS, is there any reason why, with the software RAID installed on that virtual machine, the guest OS could not be configured to see 1 RAID drive even if the underlying host sees all the disks individually?
You can present two virtual disks to a guest OS and create a RAID x array, but you can't create an array with a software RAID controller and past just the array into the VM, as part of the RAID functionality is deployed within the driver. _________________Dave Mishchenko VMware vExpert 2009-2012 Now available - VMware ESXi: Planning, Implementation, and SecurityAlso available - vSphere Quick Start Guide
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| Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:48 pm |
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THK
Joined: Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:10 am
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 Anyone in this thread successfully created ESX 5 drivers for SIL3132 chips? (I'm asking you because you might have the needs as well )
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| Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:15 am |
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HellMind
Joined: Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:29 pm
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 I need it too for Esxi5
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numeristreet
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:21 am
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 the file doeasn't works for silicom image 3124 RAID
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| Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:29 am |
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numeristreet
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:21 am
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Re: OEM.TGZ for the Sil3132 the oen.tgz file doeasn't work with my config :
tyan s7002
silicon image 3124 RAID 10 (4x1tb)
help me plz
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| Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:41 am |
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