[OmniOS-discuss] Dell H330 and mpt_sas on r151022

[Josh Coombs]

I'd have to poke at the release notes and relevant patches, but I wonder if
it's a matter of updating /etc/driver_aliases to change the binding to
mpt_sas for that specific PCI ID?

Joshua Coombs
GWI

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On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Aries <2232491716 at qq.com> wrote:

> Thank you for replay and your effort on napp-it. I really love it!
>
> Actually the Dell H330 only has one hybrid mode firmware which can be
> switched between raid and HBA modes. All the distributions include Solaris
> and linux regard this kind firmware of H330 as IR mode regardless of the
> raid or HBA mode. Although I always put it in HBA mode, the mr_sas or
> something similar is used. Therefore when I read the release note of
> r151022, I was surprised that OmniOS started to support H330 via mpt_sas.
> However the test result seems a bit disappointing.
>
> By the way, do you notice any performance decreases in the release r151022?
>
> Regrads,
> Aries
>
>
> ------------------ Original ------------------
> *From: * "Günther Alka";<alka at hfg-gmuend.de>;
> *Date: * Sat, Jul 1, 2017 03:34 AM
> *To: * "omnios-discuss"<omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>;
> *Subject: * Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Dell H330 and mpt_sas on r151022
>
> The driver is related to the firmware.
> I suppose you are on an IR/Raid firmware. The better one would be a
> raidless and often faster IT firmware (mpt_sas). But I cannot say if its
> available from Dell or if the one from LSI is working.
>
> Gea
> @napp-it.org
>
>
> Am 30.06.2017 um 18:53 schrieb Aries:
>
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the r151022 starts to support the Dell H330 via mpt_sas
> driver. So I installed the r151022 fresh on my Dell T630 server with H330
> as a VM on ESXi. The H330 was PCI-E passthrough with 8x 7k2 disks in raid
> z2.
>
> However when I ran the command dmesg | grep sas, it seems that the mr_sas
> was used for the H330 adapter which is just as same as the r151020 and r
> 151014 version.
>
> I also discovered that the disk performance was worse than the r151020.
> To compare, I ran all the tests via napp-it filebench. For example, for the
> fivestreamwrite test, the result of r151020 and r151014 is around
> 1100mb/s, but the r151022 only shows 650mb/s. I tried multiple
> combinations like creating the pool in one version and import into another
> version. The issue seems not related to the creation of the pool but the
> version which runs the pool.
>
> Did I miss something in the setup that leads the H330 to run with the
> wrong driver? Could you please give me some advices? Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Aries
>
>
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