UCS C240 M3 LSI MegaRAID VD Info

Hello,
I did replacement a new drive form a server(about 2 days ago and new physical drive number(slot) 6),
and I check storage log about new physical disk is rebuild finish and VD state change degraded to optimal from Cisco IMC.
But virtual drive's health is "Severe Fault" and also Overall Server Status same status.
I have to experience about replacement another C-series rack type server.
but I can't understand in this case. Is it bug?or something wrong?
Server : C240 M3(Ver : 2.0(1b))
RAID Card : LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i
RAID Conf : SSD 2ea -> RAID 1
SAS 4ea -> RAID 10

can you share the "Virtual drive Info" tab?
-Kenny

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Danik,
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/c22m3_sff_specsheet.pdf
And here is the option to change the OPROM and enable a different PCIe slot when having 2 CPUs in the system:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/c22m3_sff_specsheet.pdf   <<< Check the caveats for changing the OPROM cause you might lose the option to have a VIC card for example.
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do not have fabric interconnect(s), I cannot use the UCS VIC1227 for anything, can I?
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http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/e/1-0/gs/guide/b_Getting_Started_Guide/b_Getting_Started_Guide_chapter_0101.html#task_3F8535D6A9574BCD806B25FEBF44615D
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-Kenny

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You need to go thru your AM, or ask in a partner forum this question, this cannot be addressed at CSC.
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More HDD Capacity for UCS C240

Dear All, I would like to see your advice
The UCS C240 I configure in CCW contain 24 Drive backplane,
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Hi Calvin ,
According the specification for a UCS C240 SFF the maximum capacity for a hard drive is 1 TB.
Actually there is no hard drive with a higher storage capacity than that on that UCS model.
Please check in here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/C240M3_SFF_SpecSheet.pdf
There is another model of the UCS C240 (High Density) which support hard drives for 3 TB:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/C240M3_LFF_SpecSheet.pdf
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Last edited by commonmanthemes (2010-09-27 20:14:40)

for future reference : the linux kernel supports many raid controllers (adaptec, areca, lsi meagraid sata etc ) check kernel source for details.
I recommend you add a non-raid drive to the megaraid system, and install arch on that drive.
Edit : Dieter says exactly what i wanted to say
Dieter@be wrote:Afaik the megaraid will write metadata on that disk. So you loose some flexibility, say when your controller breaks. I have my arch install on a disk which is connected to my motherboard directly. (without raid etc)
Next you should create your own pkgbuild .
This Aur pkgbuild for a highpoint sata raid controller (made by me sometime ago) should help you with writing your own : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12865
once you have built the package, use pacman -U to install it.
modprobe the megaraid_sas module .
check dmesg and/or /dev to see if your raid drives are now detected.
if they are, you can start mounting/accessing/testing the functionality of your raid drives.
Note : it is possible to install archlinux on drives that require an external kernel module, but that makes the process a lot more complicated.
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2010-10-05 12:39:30)

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Created two RAID arrays in the card BIOS (RAID1 using 2 disks and a RAID5 using 6 disks). Each disk is a 146GB 10k RPM SAS drive. The firmware on the card is the latest version from April 2011.
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In any case, It's a LFF C240 M3, dual CPU. It was purchased with an LSI2008 SAS Mez card.
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Hi Zaira,
The PCIe SSD is a PCI IDE/AHCI controller that has an SSD connected to it.
Further research shows that in AHCI mode, the UCS server will boot the option ROM. The PID is
VEN: 1B21 DEV: 0612 [0106] SATA Controller [PI 01]
We need to run it in IDE mode however to boot off it. In IDE mode the option ROM does not boot. The PID in IDE mode is:
VEN: 1B21 DEV: 0611 [0101] IDE Controller [PI 85]
Both ROMS boot fine in all other servers I have tried (SuperMicro, HP and Intel) so I can only assume the UCS is somehow selectively ignoring this boot rom by the PID?
Is there anything I can do here?
Regards,
Elliott

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