Contents 3
Contents
About this guide ........................................................................................................................... 7
Contents summary ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 8
Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Performance attributes ................................................................................................................................ 8
Packing list ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Required operating environment .................................................................................................................. 9
Supported firmware revisions .......................................................................................................... 10
Supported hardware ...................................................................................................................... 10
Hardware installation .................................................................................................................. 12
Installing the HP PCIe IO Accelerator ......................................................................................................... 12
Installing a half-height bracket ......................................................................................................... 15
Installing the HP PCIe IO Accelerator Duo ................................................................................................... 18
Linux environments ...................................................................................................................... 21
Linux installation requirements ................................................................................................................... 21
Downloading and installing the driver and utilities using Linux ...................................................................... 21
Installing the HP installer script ........................................................................................................ 22
Loading the IO Accelerator driver using Linux ............................................................................................. 23
Setting the driver options .......................................................................................................................... 24
Module parameters ....................................................................................................................... 24
One-time configuration ................................................................................................................... 25
Persistent configuration ................................................................................................................... 25
Controlling driver loading ............................................................................................................... 25
Upgrading firmware using Linux ................................................................................................................ 27
Uninstalling and upgrading the driver using Linux ........................................................................................ 28
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with Linux .............................................................................................. 30
Using the Logical Volume Manager ........................................................................................................... 30
Configuring RAID for Linux ....................................................................................................................... 30
RAID0/Striped .............................................................................................................................. 31
RAID1/Mirrored ............................................................................................................................ 31
RAID 10 ....................................................................................................................................... 31
Setting up SNMP for Linux ........................................................................................................................ 32
SNMP details for Linux ................................................................................................................... 32
SNMP master agent ....................................................................................................................... 32
Launching the SNMP master agent .................................................................................................. 32
Configuring the SNMP master agent ................................................................................................ 32
Running the SNMP master agent ..................................................................................................... 33
SNMP agentx subagent .................................................................................................................. 33
Troubleshooting SNMP ................................................................................................................... 37
SNMP MIB fields supporting Linux ................................................................................................... 37
Windows Server environments ..................................................................................................... 40
Uninstalling a previously-installed driver ..................................................................................................... 40
Installing software on a Windows system ................................................................................................... 40
Using the Setup Wizard ................................................................................................................. 41
