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VMware VIB : Menambahkan, Menampilkan Daftar & Menghapus File Driver Tambahan

November 17, 2014

Saya punya 1 project pribadi yang sudah lama menjadi agenda utama ngoprek, yaitu meggunakan Infiniband Card untuk koneksi antar host di VMware vSphere. Infiniband ini semacam network card, namun punya kecepatan rata-rata yang lebih tinggi. Minimal kecepatannya adalah 10 GB/s. Versi terbaru (Gen 4) malah punya kecepatan 100 GB/s. Wow, keren sekali kan 🙂

Yap, memang keren, karena harganya pun keren. Beberapa bulan yang lalu saya sempat membeli 3 buah Infiniband card di ebay.  Infiniband ini memiliki kecepatan rendah, yaitu 10 GB/s . Meski rendah, cukuplah untuk testing home lab di markas Excellent DJ.

Karena driver default dari vSphere tidak mengenali Infiniband card ini, saya perlu memasukkan drivernya agar bisa dikenali. Terkait hal ini, saya bertemu dengan konsep VIB dan penggunaannya di vSphere. Sebenarnya sih pernah ketemu juga sewaktu awal-awal belajar vSphere, yaitu saat menggunakan vSphere Customizer untuk memodifikasi file ISO installer vSphere agar turut memasukkan driver yang diinginkan.

vavai infiniband card

VIB pada dasarnya adalah package untuk ESXi/vSphere engine. Istilah VMware, A VIB is an ESXi software package. VMware and its partners package solutions, drivers, CIM providers, and applications that extend the ESXi platform as VIBs. VIBs are available in software depots. You can use VIBs to create and customize ISO images or to upgrade ESXi hosts by installing VIBs asynchronously onto the hosts.

Ada 4 level tipe VIB yang bisa diterima oleh vSphere/Acceptance Level, yaitu VMware Certified, VMware Accepted, Partner Supported dan Community Supported

VMwareCertified
The VMwareCertified acceptance level has the most stringent requirements. VIBs with this level go through thorough testing fully equivalent to VMware in-house Quality Assurance testing for the same technology. Today, only IOVP drivers are published at this level. VMware takes support calls for VIBs with this acceptance level.

VMwareAccepted
VIBs with this acceptance level go through verification testing, but the tests do not fully test every function of the software. The partner runs the tests and VMware verifies the result. Today, CIM providers and PSA plugins are among the VIBs published at this level. VMware directs support calls for VIBs with this acceptance level to the partner’s support organization.

PartnerSupported
VIBs with the PartnerSupported acceptance level are published by a partner that VMware trusts. The partner performs all testing. VMware does not verify the results. This level is used for a new or nonmainstream technology that partners want to enable for VMware systems. Today, driver VIB technologies such as Infiniband, ATAoE, and SSD are at this level with nonstandard hardware drivers. VMware directs support calls for VIBs with this acceptance level to the partner’s support organization.

CommunitySupported
The Community Supported acceptance level is for VIBs created by individuals or companies outside of VMware partner programs. VIBs at this level have not gone through any VMware-approved testing program and are not supported by VMware Technical Support or by a VMware partner.

Agar bisa menginstall driver tambahan dari komunitas, kita perlu mengaktifkan akses SSH dan ESXi CLI melalui vSphere Client | Configuration | Security Profile dan kemudian menurunkan “Acceptance Level” ke Community Supported dengan perintah melalui SSH/Putty :

esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported

Untuk menambahkan sebuah driver, misalnya driver Mellanox untuk Infiniband card, salin file driver yang diinginkan (bisa berbentuk .vib atau .zip) kemudian jalankan perintah sebagai berikut :

esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/mlx4_en-mlnx-1.6.1.2-offline_bundle-471530.zip --no-sig-check

Hasilnya :

Installation Result
Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.
Reboot Required: true
VIBs Installed: Mellanox_bootbank_net-mlx4-en_1.6.1.2-1OEM.500.0.0.406165
VIBs Removed:
VIBs Skipped:

Untuk menampilkan daftar driver termasuk driver yang baru saja kita install, perintahnya adalah :

esxcli  software vib list

Hasilnya adalah daftar VIB driver seperti contoh berikut ini :

vavai-list-vib

Untuk menghapus driver yang pernah diinstall, jalankan perintah remove dengan mengacu pada nama driver yang diinginkan. Misalnya untuk menghapus driver tools-mlnx-mft, perintahnya adalah :

esxcli software vib remove -n=tools-mlnx-mft

Meski terlihat mesti “ngoprek”, perintah-perintah terhadap VIB tidak terlalu sulit untuk dipelajari dan bermanfaat jika suatu waktu ada network card atau storage yang tidak dikenali secara langsung oleh VMware vSphere.

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Masim Vavai Sugianto
Masim Vavai Sugianto, Tinggal di Bekasi, Bekerja sebagai wirausahawan/Konsultan IT. Penganjur penggunaan sistem Linux dan aplikasi Open Source. Hobby Membaca, Hiking dan Avonturir. Mengembangkan PT. Excellent Infotama Kreasindo sebagai lembaga training dan IT consulting.

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