topic Re: Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ? in Operating System - Linux

Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ?

fredo1664 — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:14:43 GMT

Hello,

I have opened a thread a long time ago here: https://community.hpe.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-Netservers/Drivers-for-B120i-for-RHEL-7-5/td-p/7007644

Maybe I'll be more lucky asking here?

Could someone tell me if there ever will be a kmod-hpvsa-xxx.rhel7u5.x86_64.rpm package, or is 7.4 the last supported release of RHEL for the Gen8 servers?

Thank you!

Re: Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ?

SanjeevGoyal — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:08:24 GMT

Hi,

Good Day !!!!

Please find the required driver and informations.

* RECOMMENDED * HPE Dynamic Smart Array B120i/B320i SATA RAID Controller Driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5293150&swItemId=MTX_fc9cb2b56d854a7aacc6a9c0b5&swEnvOid=4184

Notice: (Revision) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 - The HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i/B320i SATA RAID Controller Driver (hpvsa) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Is Available

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00039015en_us&docLocale=en_US

HPE Servers Support & Certification Matrices

http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/in/en/enterprise/servers/supportmatrix/redhat_linux.aspx#.W8QRrWgzY2x

http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/in/en/enterprise/servers/supportmatrix/exceptions/rhel_exceptions.aspx#.W8QR4WgzY2w

Regards,

Re: Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ?

fredo1664 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:28:28 GMT

HI @SanjeevGoyal,

Thank you but all the link you provided say RHEL 7 is supported for the Microserver Gen8, the SPP OS Guide even says 7.5 is supported, yet you link the driver for 7.4 and there is no B120i driver available for 7.5.

Anyone who wants to do a fresh installation of RHEL on the Microserver Gen8 since 7.5 was release (April?) just cannot do so because the kernel will panic thanks to the driver for the b120i not being up-to-date. The only solution is to use the b120i in AHCI mode, which does not work for everybody.

Re: Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ?

fredo1664 — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:16:50 GMT

And the driver is now available :-)

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5293150&swItemId=MTX_d13cacff65354a249da627e2d5&swEnvOid=4184

Re: Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ?

Jimmy Vance — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:14:17 GMT

@fredo1664 wrote:
And the driver is now available :-)
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5293150&swItemId=MTX_d13cacff65354a249da627e2d5&swEnvOid=4184

Yes, Sorry, meant to post earlier this morning. I contacted the product group again late last week asking about driver status.

Re: Will RHEL 7.5 ever be supported for gen8 ?

fredo1664 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 04:12:47 GMT

Thanks @Jimmy Vance.

I installed the rpm and it worked. I could upgrade the server to 7.5.