Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller 8 Cards For Dell PowerEdge VRTX Systems User’s Guide

Installing or updating the driver package on RHEL using KMOD support

NOTE: This procedure is applicable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SP5, 6.6, 6.7 and 7.1.

Perform the following steps to install the RPM package with KMOD support:

Uncompress the zipped tarball driver release package using the command tar vxzf <driver name>.
Install the driver package using the command rpm –ihv kmod-megaraid_ sas-<version>.x86_64.rpm.
- NOTE: Use rpm -Uvh <package name> when upgrading an existing package.
Reboot the system for the updated driver to take effect.
Verify that the driver has been loaded using the command modinfo megaraid_sas.
View the list of controllers installed on your system using the command lspci | grep IOV.