Software installation, Installation overview, Installing the software and utilities – HP IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class User Manual
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Software installation
Installation overview
Before continuing with the installation of this software, do the following:
1.
Ensure that your operating system is included in the list of supported operating systems contained in the
release notes for this release.
2.
Before installing the IO Accelerator VSL, make sure you have properly installed the IO Accelerator
devices. For more information, see the IO Accelerator hardware installation guide. Every IO
Accelerator device in a system must be upgraded to the appropriate firmware requirements.
Multiple devices in a system
Every IO Accelerator device in a system must be upgraded to the appropriate firmware.
For example, if you have a system running IO Accelerator software version 2.3.1 with IO Accelerator
devices previously installed and want to install new IO Accelerator devices that require the latest version of
the firmware, then you must upgrade all of the existing devices with firmware that supports this version of the
IO Accelerator VSL software.
The IO Accelerator VSL for Solaris is distributed as a tarball.
Installing the software and utilities
To install the IO Accelerator VSL software and utilities:
1.
Download the appropriate tarball from the HP website
Example:
hp_io_accelerator-<version>.pkg.tar.gz
2.
Change to the directory containing the downloaded tarball.
3.
Uncompress the -vsl package:
$ gunzip -c iomemory-vsl*pkg.tar.gz|tar -xf -
4.
Run the pkgadd command:
$ pfexec pkgadd -d . iomemory-vsl
The software and utilities are installed to the following locations.
File type
Installation location
Driver
/usr/kernel/drv/amd64
Utilities
/opt/fusionio/bin
Driver Config File /usr/kernel/drv
Continue to "Loading the IO Accelerator VSL facility (driver) (on page
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