Contents |
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About this guide | 5 |
Contents summary | 5 |
Introduction | 6 |
Overview | 6 |
Product naming | 6 |
Performance attributes | 7 |
Required operating environment | 8 |
Supported firmware revisions | 8 |
Supported hardware | 9 |
Before you begin | 11 |
Software installation | 12 |
VMDirectPathIO | 12 |
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ESX | 12 |
ESXi command line installation | 12 |
Installation overview | 13 |
Downloading the VMware ESXi driver | 13 |
Transferring the VSL files to the ESX or ESXi server | 14 |
Installing the VSL on ESXi 5.0 | 15 |
Installing the VSL on ESXi 5.0 using vCLI | 15 |
Installing the VSL on ESXi 5.0 using the command line | 15 |
Installing the VSL on ESX or ESXi 4.x | 15 |
Installing the VSL on ESX or ESXi 4.x using vCLI | 16 |
Installing the VSL on ESX or ESXi 4.x using the command line | 16 |
Upgrading the firmware using ESX | 16 |
Upgrading device firmware from VSL 1.x.x or 2.x.x to 3.x.x | 17 |
Enabling PCIe power | 19 |
Configuring the device to support VM disks | 19 |
Modifying a VMware resource pool to reserve memory | 20 |
Using the IO Accelerator as swap with ESX | 21 |
Maintenance | 22 |
Maintenance tools | 22 |
Management utilities for ESXi | 22 |
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Enabling PCIe power override | 23 |
Enabling the override parameter | 24 |
Common maintenance tasks | 25 |
Disabling the driver | 25 |
Enabling the driver | 25 |
Disabling auto attach | 26 |
Enabling auto attach | 26 |
Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver package | 26 |
Unmanaged shutdown issues | 27 |
Performance and tuning | 28 |
Contents | 3 |