[olug] RDAC or SDD for ESX 3.5?

[Hurley Rod]

Well after that spanking, I still have one question.  How do I get it to
work?  Because "built in" is not an accurate statement. 
   "VMWare should have the drivers you need..."  --say WHAT?  You just
noted that you cannot install precompiled binaries on an ESX host.      
   "or your vendor should have third-party drivers"  --did you notice
that it is no longer supported, and the legacy RDACs have no reference
in interoperability to ESX3.5?  It's a guessing game, unless I write my
own.

I obviously tried all best practices, and if you read the documentation
carefully it does not provide an answer.  I do not want to pay for
support on an unsupported incident for a Test/Dev issue.  Tried that
once and won't ever again.

By the way, I have a 6 server ESX 3.0.2 cluster with 75 vm servers that
I built from scratch, but didn't think I needed to preface with that.  I
just don't have the linux knowledge that I probably should to work with
external devices.  Installed the SDD on the first 6, but of course it
was supported and knew the right one to use.

:o)

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Sean Kelly
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:56 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] RDAC or SDD for ESX 3.5?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:56:51AM -0500, Hurley Rod wrote:
> I know that there should be an RDAC driver installed on the server,

Don't install Linux drivers on the ESX service console. VMware should
have
the drivers you need, or your vendor should have third-party drivers.

Check the VMware HCL for your HBA.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_io_guide.pdf

> which is the old school version of the newer SDD (subsystem device
> driver).  I found an RPM for a 2.4.xx RHEL kernel that installed ok,
but
> seemed to have no effect.  Nothing shows up in installed modules
(lsmod)
> and I don't know where to go from there on the server.