Vsan Controller Driver Is Vmware Certified Warning
Product description
The HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller is a Flexible Smart Array, 12 Gb/s SAS RAID controller that provides enterprise-class storage performance, increased internal scalability with SAS Expander Card, and data protection for specific HPE ProLiant Gen9 rack and tower servers. It features eight internal physical links and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration between any RAID levels with Flash Backed Write Cache (FBWC), global online spare, and pre-failure warning. The Gen9 family of controllers supports the HPE Smart Storage Battery. With HPE Smart Storage Battery, multiple Smart Array controllers are supported without needing additional backup power sources for each controller, resulting in simple upgrade process.
Product features
Description
Storage interface (SAS/SATA)
8 Physical links across 2 x 4 internal ports
12 Gb/s SAS, 6 Gb/s SATA Technology
Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives to the same controller
Support for SAS tape drives, SAS tape autoloaders and SAS tape libraries
Performance Optimization-Degraded Reads and Read Coalescing
Power efficiency
Seamless upgrades to and from other HPE Smart Array controllers
Flexible Smart Array controller (Daughter card)
Internal: Eight (8) SAS/SATA physical links across 2 x 4 ports
12 Gb/s SAS (1200 MB/s Theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)
6 Gb/s SATA (600 MB/s Theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)
PCI Express Gen3 x 8 link width
2GB 72-bit wide DDR3-1866 provides up to 14.9 GB/s maximum cache bandwidth
Read ahead caching
Write-back caching
Online array expansion
Online capacity expansion
Online logical drive extension
Online RAID level migration
Online stripe size migration
Online mirror split, recombine, and rollback
Online active drive replacement
Online drive firmware upgrade
Online and high performance offline Rapid Parity Initialization (RPI)
Unlimited global online spares assignment
User selectable expand and rebuild priority
User selectable RAID level and stripe size
User selectable read and write cache sizes
Supports predictive spare activation
The following features offer detection of possible failures before they occur, allowing preventive action to be taken:
Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) was first developed at HPE detects possible hard disk failure before it occurs, allowing replacement of the component before failure occurs
Drive Parameter Tracking monitors drive operational parameters, predicting failure and notifying the administrator
Dynamic Sector Repairing continually performs background surface scans on the hard disk drives during inactive periods and automatically remaps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity
Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure
Recovery ROM: This feature protects the user from a firmware image corruption by storing a redundant copy of the firmware image. If the active firmware image becomes corrupt, the controller will use the redundant firmware image and continue operating
On-Line Spares: There is no limit to the number of spare drives that can be installed prior to drive failure. If a failure occurs, recovery begins with an On-Line Spare and data is reconstructed automatically
DRAM ECC detects and corrects data bit errors
The HPE SmartCache feature is a controller-based read and write caching solution in a DAS environment that caches the most frequently accessed data ('hot' data) onto lower latency SSDs to dynamically accelerate application workloads
Click here to access HPE Smart Array SR SmartCache for more information.
HPE Secure Encryption is a Smart Array controller-based data encryption solution for ProLiant Gen9 servers that protects sensitive, mission critical data. This is an enterprise-class encryption solution for data at rest on any bulk storage attached to the HPE Smart Array controllers including data on the cache memory of the controller
HPE SSD Smart Path
The HPE SSD Smart Path feature included in the Smart Array software stack improves Solid State Disk (SSD) read performance. With up to 4 x better SSD read performance, HPE SSD Smart Path chooses the optimum path to the SSD and accelerates reads for all RAID levels and RAID 0 writes
HPE SSD Smart Path is ideal for read intensive workloads and is included as a base feature on HPE Smart Array P-series controllers
Click here to access HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA) for more information.
The warranty for this device is 3 years parts only
Pre-Failure warranty: Drives attached to the Smart Array Controller and monitored under Insight Manager are supported by a Pre-Failure (Replacement) warranty
Warranty upgrade options:
Response - Upgrade on-site response from next business day to same day 4 hours
Coverage - Extend hours of coverage from 9 hours x 5 days to 24 hours x 7 days
Duration - Select duration of coverage for a period of 1, 3, or 5 years
Warranty upgrade options can come in the form of Care Packs, which are sold at the HPE System level to which this product attaches
Compatibility
Description
HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen9
HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen9
Software overview
Description
Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server
VMware vSphere ESXi
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Oracle Solaris
Oracle Linux
Canonical Ubuntu
CentOS
Wind River
Citrix XenServer
HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA)
Comprehensive management for HPE Smart Storage products with advanced scripting and diagnostic features and simplified and intuitive interface and functionality
Click here to access HPE Smart Storage Administrator (HPE SSA) for more information.
HPE Systems Insight Manager
Click here to access HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) for more information.
HPE Storage Management Utility
NOTE: For a complete and up-to-date list of certified and supported OS versions for HPE Smart Array controllers, refer to the HPE Smart Array Operating System Support Matrix
Click here to access HPE Smart Array Operating System Support Matrix.
Click here to access HPE's Certified and Supported ProLiant Servers for OS and Virtualization Software for more information.
Link to product specification
Click here to view the specifications page for HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller .
Link to warranty information
Click here to check the warranty status.
Click here for information regarding worldwide limited warranty and technical support.
Link to driver, firmware, software and manuals
Click here to view the driver, firmware, software and manuals.
Link to product related documents
Click here to view the list of product related documents .
Legal Disclaimer: Products sold prior to the November 1, 2015 separation of Hewlett-Packard Company into Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and HP Inc. may have older product names and model numbers that differ from current models.
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Posted by8 months ago
Jul 12, 2016 - MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i is the default controller used in Softlayer and if your plan is to run. Download the magaraid driver from VMware website. He holds several industry level certifications including but not limited to.
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I just recently upgraded my VSAN cluster from 6.0 to 6.7 and everything went pretty smoothly. I also updated my host firmware and drivers (Cisco C240 M4 hosts), being very careful to use the HCL-approved firmware and driver versions, along with the Cisco-flavored ESXi media.
After the upgrade however my VSAN health check reports a warning for 'Controller driver is VMware certified'. It lists the current installed version (correct version per HCL), but then under 'Recommend version' it shows 'N/A'. So the warning seems to be a simple match failure between current/recommended, simply because it can't see what the recommended version should be.
The cluster does have net access and CEIP turned on to do online health tests, so it should be able to phone home for HCL checks.
Controller Driver Is Vmware Certified Warning On Pc
I have a case open with VMware but so far they haven't been able to figure it out. We installed the latest storcli utility, did host reboot, etc.
Vmware Certified Professional
Controller Driver Is Vmware Certified Warning Update
Update:/u/vcloudman kindly pointed out that despite the fact I thought I was running the correct controller driver after my update, I was actually on the megaraid SAS driver, which needed updated the to lsi_mr3 driver (v6.610.21.00-1OEM.600 per the HCL). I manually installed and activated the vib, rebooted and everything is green and happy now.
