Hello, i have her a couple of server (HP DL380 G5) with an SmartArray P400 Raid-controller. This controller is not supported(by RH) anymore by the current hpsa-driver which is be the replacment vor the older cciss-driver in rh7, centos 6.5 works fine. So the question is, is it possible to bring the cciss-driver in the plus-kernel? If not, what would the best way to use this driver, and keep it current with the kernel-upgrades(also generate an images for install on the server, pxe-boot prefered) regards Ingo.

Be careful with using CentOS 7 and RAID controllers that are supported by cciss module. Wmic Get Printer Serial Number. I also used 'hpsa_simple_mode=1' and 'hpsa_allow_any=1' module parameters for customer server I had to install - DL 360 G5 with P400i. Driver Epson Lq 570 Xp Drivers. I even installed 'hpacucli' from HPs 'MCP' repository for CentOS 6 to query physical and logical drive status. To this point all was fine, but I could not use other tools from MCP repository (snmp agents and System Management) due to unresolvable dependencies (it's was CentOS 6 repository after all).

The cciss driver has been removed from RHEL7 and SLES12. If you really want cciss on RHEL7 checkout the elrepo directory. A new Smart Array driver called 'hpsa' has been accepted into the main line linux kernel as of Dec 18, 2009, in linux-2.6.33-rc1. Cciss is a block driver for older HP Smart Array RAID controllers. Options cciss_allow_hpsa=1: This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to.

HOWEVER, what I wanted to actually say is BE CAREFUL. HP recently published MCP repository for CentOS 7 and I was glad that before finishing my work, I will be able to also install HP tools for appropriate OS version. But, 'hpacucli' was not there any more, there is 'hpssacli' using which You apparently can screw up logical drives. 'hpssacli' (apparently) led the HW to fail one of physical disks every time I queried controller/logical disk/physical disk states. I can't provide any more details as I didn't bother debugging this any further and just installed CentOS 6 (support until 2020 is more than enough for this server). Maybe for others this will work fine because besides unsupported OS version on this server there were another key component, that might have lead to this problem - non-HP disk drives (ie. Drives with non HP firmware).