Seagate Nytro XP6500 Flash Accelerator Cards User Guide, Rev. B
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Software Installation Instructions
4.
When prompted, insert the USB containing the DUD created in
Section 2.3.2.3,
Creating a Driver Update Disk (DUD)
on a USB drive
. The utility locates and loads the driver for your controller.
The ULLD for Nytro XP6500 creates two interfaces to the same block device:
—
ULLD block device (
/dev/nytro-sdX
)
—
SCSI block device (
/dev/sdX
)
Example:
If the SCSI block device is
/dev/sdc,
the ULLD block device is named
/dev/nytro-sdc
5.
At the
Device Selection Screen,
select the SCSI device named SEAGATE XP6500.
6.
Partition the boot device as shown in the figures below. You can create additional partitions as needed.
The figures below show device selection for RHEL 7.0, RHEL 6.0, CentOS 6, Oracle Linux 6.0, and SuSE Enterprise
Linux 11.0 SP2/SP3.
7.
Complete the operating system installation and reboot the server.
2.3.2.4.1
Installing UEK Oracle Linux 6.0 on a Nytro XP6500 Disk
You must perform the following additional steps for Oracle Linux 6.0 installation on the Nytro XP6500 Virtual Disk.
1.
Reboot the server into a RHEL-compatible kernel (
kernel-2.6.32-xxx.el6
).
2.
Install the corresponding UEK rpm of the nytrolin driver.
Example: Oracle Linux 6.5, install
kmod-nytrolin-<version>_oel6.5_uek-1.x86_64.rpm
3.
Reboot the server into the UEK kernel.
