Hi Folks,
I virtual OMV in VMware and map an RDM of my LSI 9260-8i RAID card to OMV. This has worked extremely well since I started using OMV a couple years ago.
I upgraded VMware to 6.5u2 and cannot get the MegaRAID Storage Manager working. MSM runs on a remote host then connects to an SMI-S driver on another host with the LSI RAID card. The host with the RAID card can be VMware, Windows or Linux.
With that said, I may change my configuration and passthrough the LSI RAID card to OMV. I know this also works well, but if I do this I need to install the SMI-S driver. Here's my question.
Can the below Linux SMI-S provider be installed on OMV 4.x? I am not a Linux admin so I am seeking advice. Thank you! -John
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Prerequisite for MegaRAID SMI-S provider installation
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The MegaRAID ® StoreLIB application which is used by MegaRAID SMI-S provider depends upon two standard libraries libpci and libsysfs.
Please ensure that these libraries are present in the system before installing MegaRAID SMI-S provider rpm.
MegaRAID SMI-S provider will not function without these two standard libraries. The minimum versions required are:
- libpci version 2.2.8
- libsysfs version 2.0.1
For your convenience, libsysfs is available in the rpm <Lib_Utils-1.xx-xx.noarch.rpm> and libpci is refered from the system libraries.
<Lib_Utils-1.xx-xx.noarch.rpm> is packaged in the MegaRAID SMI-S provider zip file.
To install the <Lib_Utils-1.xx-xx.noarch.rpm>, please follow below steps.
1) unzip the MegaRAID SMI-S provider package .
2) To install the Lib_Utils RPM, run the command "rpm -ivh <Lib_Utils-1.xx-xx.noarch.rpm>"
3) To install the MegaRAID SMI-S provider RPM, run the comand "rpm -ivh <lsi_mr_hhr-xx.xx-xxxx-rhel5.i386.rpm>
Note:
If the Lib_Utils RPM is already installed on the target system, the step-2 mentioned above fail with error message.
"package <Lib_Utils-1.xx-xx> is already installed", in that case continue with MegaRAID SMI-S provider RPM installation as in step-3.
Minimum version required for Lib_Utils is Lib_Utils-1.00-09
Prerequistes for DSA:
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1.LSI_MR_CONF file should be placed in "/etc/lsi_mr" directory and LSI_MR_CONF file should be updated with the location of "lsi_mir" directory.
2.lsi_mr.conf should be placed in the "lsi_mir" directory.
Note:
Files "lsi_mir" and "LSI_MR_CONF" are being delivered as part of the package.