[TUTORIAL] Configuring Fusion-Io (SanDisk) ioDrive, ioDrive2, ioScale and ioScale2 cards with Proxmox

[mrwizardno2]

Heads up: Had some trouble building DKMS with the PVE 8.1 release and new kernel. Ended up manually building and loading the module with insmod to get my lab back up.

 

[macgro1]

it's been my case... as well, rectified:
git clone https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl
cd iomemory-vsl/
sudo make dkms

 

[MJFlanigan]

How did you get it to run on proxmox 8?
What kernel are you using?

I am currently on proxmox 7.4-17/513c62be (running kernel: 6.1.15-1-pve)

but i am afraid to upgrade ...
Installing them was a nightmare... and i don't want to start all that again...

I would like to know the answer to this as well. I just bought a card from dell and I would like to use it in my proxmox server but I have no idea based on these instructions how to install this thing at all. I read though the repo and it's still unclear how to do this on proxmox. Is there a new guide for 8 out yet?

 

[Jan Panoch]

hello,

here is a updated guide for Proxmox v8.x (successfully build on proxmox 8.1.4 with kernel 6.5.11-7-pve):

apt update && apt --assume-yes install git zip unzip pve-headers proxmox-headers-`uname -r` && apt --assume-yes upgrade && apt --assume-yes autoremove && \
mkdir /home/temp  && cd /home/temp  && \
git clone https://github.com/RemixVSL/iomemory-vsl && \
wget -O fio-common_3.2.16.1731-1.0_amd64.deb https://www.dropbox.com/s/pd2ohfaufhwqc34/fio-common_3.2.16.1731-1.0_amd64.deb?dl=1 && \
wget -O fio-firmware-fusion_3.2.16.20180821-1_all.deb https://www.dropbox.com/s/kcn5agi6lyikicf/fio-firmware-fusion_3.2.16.20180821-1_all.deb?dl=1 && \
wget -O fio-sysvinit_3.2.16.1731-1.0_all.deb https://www.dropbox.com/s/g39l6lg9of6eqze/fio-sysvinit_3.2.16.1731-1.0_all.deb?dl=1 && \
wget -O fio-util_3.2.16.1731-1.0_amd64.deb https://www.dropbox.com/s/57huby17mteg6wp/fio-util_3.2.16.1731-1.0_amd64.deb?dl=1 && \
apt update && apt --assume-yes install gcc fakeroot build-essential debhelper rsync dkms && \
cp -r /home/temp/iomemory-vsl/root/usr/src/iomemory-vsl-3.2.16 /usr/src/ && \
mkdir -p /var/lib/dkms/iomemory-vsl/3.2.16/build && \
ln -s /usr/src/iomemory-vsl-3.2.16 /var/lib/dkms/iomemory-vsl/3.2.16/source && \
dkms build -m iomemory-vsl -v 3.2.16 && \
dkms install -m iomemory-vsl -v 3.2.16 && \
modprobe iomemory-vsl && \
cd /home/temp && \
dpkg -i fio-firmware-fusion_3.2.16.20180821-1_all.deb fio-util_3.2.16.1731-1.0_amd64.deb fio-sysvinit_3.2.16.1731-1.0_all.deb fio-common_3.2.16.1731-1.0_amd64.deb

btw. if you stayed - like me - on older kernel 5.15 with proxmox 8, because iomemory-vsl cannot be compiled with newer one, you have to install proper headers and compile driver a bit different way:

apt install proxmox-headers-6.5.11-7-pve
dkms build -m iomemory-vsl -v 3.2.16 -k 6.5.11-7-pve
dkms install -m iomemory-vsl -v 3.2.16 -k 6.5.11-7-pve

There are just minor changes from 7.x guide, it looks like the real work was done by RemixVSL who updated driver sources to support newer kernels..

Jan

 

[Jan Panoch]

I would like to know the answer to this as well. I just bought a card from dell and I would like to use it in my proxmox server but I have no idea based on these instructions how to install this thing at all. I read though the repo and it's still unclear how to do this on proxmox. Is there a new guide for 8 out yet?

I just posted updated guide for Proxmox 8.x