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Migrating RAID6 array from HP SmartArray P600 to LSI MegaRAID SAS 8888ELP
My customer has an external RAID6 array (8x 1TB in HP MSA60 enclosure) attached to HP SmartArray P600 controller. They have now decided to replace the server and the new one comes with LSI MegaRAID ...
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MegaRAID - changing cache policy online
I would like to perform some tests with WriteThrough and WriteBack - is it safe to change these settings on a production system?
The RAID controller doesn't have BBU so I would like to enable ...
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Online expansion PERC700 RAID6 server
I have a Dell PowerEdge r510, with 5 HDDs in a RAID6 configuration. I'd like to add a 6th disk (and, in the future, more) to grow the hardware RAID configuration. I have a logical volume, in which ...
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RAID: replacing a disk before it fails
We have a RAID 5 setup (Megaraid SAS ROMB) with 4 930 Gb physical disks running as a 2.7 TB VD. Recently (a few months back) we had a drive fail and had to leave it in degraded mode for ages (various ...
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Drive is failing but LSI MegaRAID controller does not detect it
smartmontools reports an increasing number of unreadable sectors on a drive that is used in a RAID1 configuration. I thought that the LSI MegaRAID controller also checks the SMART status of its disk ...
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LSI MegaRAID storage manager (msm) alert setup
I was able to setup a cronjob with MegaCLI via cron job. I have setup that to alert me for failed and degraded disks. Now, I am trying to seup the MSM gui as it seems there are more granular alert ...
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LSI MegaRAID : what does “transient error detected while communicating with PD : -:-:1” mean?
I've got a LSI MegaRAID 9260-16i card running in a server, and it keeps logging the error
Controller ID: 0 Transient error detected while communicating with PD: -:-:1
I can't find anything about ...
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How to find out the amount of sectors available in a RAID physical disk for replacement?
So, to start with, let me confess I have no knowledge of RAID besides what I read in a few APC mags 5 years back and what the acronym stands for. Everything I know now comes from assumptions and the ...
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Supermicro server with aftermarket MegaRaid
My company gave me a budget to build a VM server, so I bought a Supermicro server and saved some $$ by buying an aftermarket MegaRaid - 8308ELP (I know it's old, but it fit my needs and was cheap). I ...
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How do I banish desktop alerts on an LSI MegaRAID-equipped Win 2008 installation?
A bit of background - recently we've been upgrading Win2003 systems to Win2008, and all of these servers have an LSI RAID controller card installed. The previous system image had popup and email ...
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Possible bad raid card / hard disks (LSI 9261-8i)
I am in a bit of bad spot at the moment, i have a dedicated server hosted by someone else, it has a LSI 9261-8i raid card installed, attached is:
3x300GB SAS 15K rpm disks (in RAID5)
5x2TB SATA ...
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Setting up SMI-S for LSI MegaRAID on Windows for SolarWinds
I am running a number of servers that have the LSI SAS 9280-24i4e RAID card. I've installed the MegaRAID Storage Manager on the server, and it is able to see all the drives and fully monitor them. ...
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Megaraid Firmware fault
After building a new server (IBM X3550). Getting error
Firmware is in Fault state: MFI register state 0xF0FF2102. -- For this one could not get any help in google.
And on the BIOS system setting ...
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MegaRAID SAS only provides RAID-0 for expansion
I have a RAID-1 setup with two discs mirroring each other, I recently replaced both these disks with larger ones as the space is starting to get low, this action has been performed once before a few ...
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megacli64.exe manual
Is there any document that explains the command line switches of megacli better than the cryptic output of megacli64 -h ?
The machine is an IBM x3650 m3 to which I added three more disks.
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SMART with Megaraid under windows
Is there a way to read RAW HDD SMART value that is behind a MegaRaid raid?
apparently that is possible with smartmontools under linux, is there something similar possible with windows?
Thanks.
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Setting up email alerts on MegaRaid Manager works, but I could not receive the test email
I have a CentOS server on which I have setup MegaRaid Manager to manage it's hardware RAID-1. Everything is working fine(including mrmonitor). But, when I try to set-up email alerts from Megaraid ...
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Megacli check returns “OK;NRPE: Unable to read output”
There is an icinga server set up to run check_megaraid_sas. It has been working beautifully for the last ~7 months.
During this time several "Unable to read output" messages have shown up for a ...
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MegaRAID Storage Manager Error 1920 “Service MRMonitor (MegaMonitorSrv) failed to start.” on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64
I'm trying to install the MegaRAID Storage Manager 8.10 provided by SUPERMICRO, but I keep getting an error 1920 that "Service MRMonitor (MegaMonitorSrv) failed to start. Verify that you have ...
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Adding SSD boot disk to machine running RAID 10
I have a server (dev rig) that runs Windows 2008 R2 and boots from a RAID 10 setup.
Now I want to add an SSD disk that will contain Windows 7 (could be dual boot, but dont plan on salvaging the ...
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MegaCli: Get the /dev/sd* device name for a logical drive
Let's say I know the drive I want is on Adapter 8, Virtual Drive 0, is there a way to get the Linux device name (e.g. /dev/sdt)? I am on RHEL 6.2.
-pdlist displays a WWN value for each physical ...
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Horrible performing RAID
I have a small GlusterFS Cluster with two storage servers providing a replicated volume. Each server has 2 SAS disks for the OS and logs and 22 SATA disks for the actual data striped together as a ...
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Reset MegaCLI error count
I have a system where MegaCli64 -PdList -a0 shows media errors on one disk. After investigating the errors, I've decided not to take any action for now. I'd like to reset the error count, so that ...
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MegaRaid damaging disk by set a drive to “Offline”?
I wanted to test performance in a RAID10 with a "damaged drive". To simulate this situation I've set a single drive to "Offline" by using this command:
MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [45:12] -aAll
The ...
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Megaware Raid 10
I have 22 disks and would like to create a Raid 10. Unfortunately my raid controller (MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i) is only capable to handle 8 arrays within a RAID 10. Because of that I could only use 16 ...
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LSI 9285-8e and Supermicro SC837E26-RJBOD1 duplicate enclosure ID and slot numbers
I am working with 2 x Supermicro SC837E26-RJBOD1 chassis connected to a single LSI 9285-8e card in a Supermicro 1U host. There are 28 drives in each chassis for a total of 56 drives in 28 RAID1 ...
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Install MegaCli to Monitor Perc 5/i in Nexentastor 3
I have a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i Raid controller that we've already installed Nexentastor 3 Community Edition on. We setup a raid-10 array that and put a ZFS pool on top of the hardware. As I ...
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MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP
I'm just wondering whether anyone knows if I can use a Debian distro with the MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP controller. Currently at the moment LSI only supply drivers/support for RHEL/CentOS but I was ...
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How can I get an email alert when RAID array is degraded? VMware ESXi 5.0, MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i
We have recently bought a "white box" server to run VMware ESXi 5.0 (we're planning to use the vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). According to VMware's Compatibility Guide, the server's LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS ...
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MegaRAID JBOD substitute
It seems that certain MegaRAID chips don't support JBOD (unfortunately).
I've read online that to make these controllers act as a pass-through, I should configure the disks in RAID0.
What RAID0 ...
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setup raid 6 with 12 - 2 TB drives
I have two 500GTB 7.2k Sata 2.5in drives, plus twelve 2TB drives, and LSI 9260-8i SAS/SATA Card. I need to have OS on one label the rest for storage. I am unsure how to build the raid6. It has the ...
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Now to manage an LSI 9261-8i in vSphere 4.1, or a good alternative RAID card?
I've been struggling with a new VMware server we recently got. Everything installed fine, but I'm unable to manage the RAID card. The built-in monitoring works (kind of), but I need to manage it, not ...
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How to disable the built-in RAID in x3650 M3?
We have an IBM server x3650 M3, and I'm trying to install Linux without using HW RAID (ServeRAID), as per cluster storage software vendor requirements.
The problem is that the server exposes the ...
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LSI MegaRaid warning: Patrol Read can't be started
We run a HyperV server on RAID-6 (the OS is Windows Server 2008 R2). The hardware is LSI MegaRaid SAS 8704EM2 controller, with 4x 1TB WesternDigital SATA drives. The server is up & running on this ...
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MegaCLI Media Error Count
This morning, I just got a Nagios alarm because of:
BRUBLUst01:/usr/local/bin# /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -a0
Adapter #0
Enclosure Device ID: 32
Slot Number: 0
Device Id: 0
Sequence ...
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MegaCLI always returns blank output
This server is a Dell R200 running Ubuntu 8.04LTS using a LSI SAS1068E raid card supplied from Dell, I suspect that there might be some kind of RAID issue with the hardware raid built into the ...
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LSI MegaRaid - get HDD temperature
Is there any way to get a drive temperature using MegaCLI or any other utility? Like "tw_cli /cx/px show temperature" in 3ware.
OS: Solaris x86.
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Use MegaCli to reconstruct RAID on Dell PERC 5/i?
I have a RAID 1 + hot spare that I would like to reconstruct, online, into a RAID 5 set. I know this is possible with OpenManage, but I has anyone figured out how to pull this off using the MegaCli ...
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What's a “battery relearn” on a LSI MegaRaid?
Our file server just started mailing us about how its battery backup is draining and it's switching from WB to WT mode and so on.
I looked through its logs and found that it is configured to ...
