QuantaStor Driver Upgrades

As new hardware models become available there are occasions where you may need to upgrade your QuantaStor systems' drivers in order to enable your hardware.

QuantaStor v2.x

Chelsio T4 driver

The following steps outline how to download the Chelsio T4 driver, set the permissions on the driver, and install it.

wget http://www.osnexus.com/storage/drivers/chelsio_t4_driver.tgz
tar xvfz chelsio_t4_driver.tgz
cd chelsio_t4_driver
chmod 644 cxgb4.ko
cp *ko /lib/modules/2.6.35-27-quantastor/extra
depmod
modprobe cxgb4

Run these commands to verify that the module is loaded and running:

lsmod | grep cxgb4
modinfo cxgb4 | more

Intel 10GbE driver

The following steps outline how to download the driver, set the permissions on the driver, make a backup of the old driver, and install the new one.

wget http://www.osnexus.com/storage/drivers/ixgbe.ko
chmod 644 ixgbe.ko
mv /lib/modules/2.6.35-27-quantastor/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko /lib/modules/2.6.35-27-quantastor/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko.distrib
cp ixgbe.ko /lib/modules/2.6.35-27-quantastor/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe.ko
depmod

The stock driver with QuantaStor v2 is 3.4.24-NAPI, this new driver updates to ixgbe 3.11.33. After you reboot you'll want to run this command to verify the driver version now reads 3.11.33

modinfo ixgbe | more

LSI MegaRAID 92xx

As new models of LSI's MegaRAID controller become available it is sometimes necessary to upgrade your driver, firmware, and the MegaCLI. To upgrade your QuantaStor v2 system with the latest MegaRAID driver, firmware and CLI as of 3/8/2013 please run these commands from the console of your QuantaStor system. The update_megaraid.sh script does most of the work.

sudo -i
cd ~
wget http://www.osnexus.com/storage/drivers/megaraid_qsv2_06504/update_megaraid.sh
chmod 755 update_megaraid.sh
./update_megaraid.sh

QuantaStor v3.x

No updates available at this time.