HPE 1.2TB Read Intensive Mezzanine PCIe Workload Accelerator - PN 794603-B21 Downgrade Firmware

[sillyvainplex]

HPE 1.2TB Read Intensive Mezzanine PCIe Workload Accelerator - PN 794603-B21

Hi I am trying to downgrade this fusion card to a lower firmware so I can use it for ESXI 6.X and everytime I try to gives me an invalid firmware file.

Finding drivers and firmware file for this card on the HP support is impossible.  I can make it work with windows server without any issue.

doing a fio-status it sees it as a ioMemory ioMono and driver is 4.3.7

I have been trying to make it work for vmware for a week and I am getting ticked off because I cannot find anything on this card on the HP support. if I search by part number I get a printer results.

I did go to Sandisk website and nothing works..  I think it's the firmware that needs to be downgraded.

Help

[ShruthiSK]

Hi, 

Please provide the below details in order to further understand the reason behind the downgrade problem. 

Please note that the driver and firmware update or downgrade is a single package and there would not be individual packages as such for the installation. 

1. What is the exact ESXi version and update?

2. Please attach the fio-debug logs or the output of the fio-status for us to go through the same to understand the firmware and driver showing up. 

Thanks. 

BR

Shruthi