Installing the mpt3 Driver

Scenario

If the BMS uses 3108 or 3008 RAID cards, you need to install the mpt3sas driver on the VM.

Procedure

1. Upload the RAID-3008IR_3008IT_3408IT_3416IT-CentOS7.6-mpt3sas-27.00.00.00-1-x86_64.rpm package obtained in Making Preparations to the VM.
2. Install the mpt3 driver.
   1. Go to the directory where the .rpm installation package is stored and run the following command to install it:

      rpm -ivh RAID-3008IR_3008IT_3408IT_3416IT-CentOS7.6-mpt3sas-27.00.00.00-1-x86_64.rpm

      [root@localhost mpt3-82599]# rpm -ivh RAID-3008IR_3008IT_3408IT_3416IT-CentOS7.6-mpt3sas-27.00.00.00-1-x86_64.rpm
      Preparing...                               ################################## [100%]
      Updating / installing...
         1:kmod-mpt3sas-27.00.00.00_el7.6-1      ################################## [100%]
      [root@localhost mpt3-82599]#

   2. Run the dracut -f command to update the kernel:
3. After the installation is complete, run the rpm -qa | grep mpt3 command. The installation is successful if the following information is displayed:

   kmod-mpt3sas-27.00.00.00_el7.6-1.x86_64