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Enlarging RAID1 virtual drive online on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i without downtime?

I recently went out to a customer location and replaced + rebuilt a RAID1 drive group on their Lenovo TS440 server, going from 2 TB drives to 4 TB drives. Question is - what's the best way to enlarge ...
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Upgrade from SATA to SAS: Expected speedup?

My current setup is this: Megaraid 9361-16i 12 x 12 TB SATA disks WD DC HC520 Connected to the controller via 3 of the 4 SAS ports Configured either Raid-10 or Raid-6 without spares. Raid-6 in write-...
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Storcli64 not rebuilding replaced disk

One of the drives in our LSI-based RAID failed (Avago 3108 MegaRaid). We pulled the drive and replaced it with a similar disk (cap/speed). Autorebuild is enabled, however the status of the disk (128:7)...
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LSI MegaRaid not rebulding RAID5

I have a LSI megaraid Controller witha RAID5 array of 4 disks. This has been running for several years. Yesterday The controller degraded the array and I cannot access the data on it because it thinks ...
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Supermicro won't boot from RAID virtual drive after a power outage

One of our Supermicro servers won't boot from the virtual drive on a MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i after a power outage. It can still boot from a USB stick without trouble, all hard drives and file systems ...
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ESXi does not show drives for second RAID controller with NVMe drives

I got a second RAID controller (AVAGO 9440-8i) to put in my Dell T440 server (first RAID controller is a H740P). I got the Broadcom U.2 enabler cable and two WD Gold 2TB drives. I've updated ESXi, the ...
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Centos 7: (re)discover SCSI device removed by kernel

I have a PowerVault with a RAID 5 array attached to a PowerEdge server running CentOS 7.9.2009. One of the disks in the array failed and apparently the kernel then removed the array. Here are some ...
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Bitlocker Encryption on RAID 0 kicks drive out of array half-way through

After hunting around for answers, I found some for the question: "Does Bitlocker support RAID on Windows". The answer seems to be that hardware RAID is supported. I've got a RAID 0 drive ...
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LSI Megaraid beeping after disk replacement

On my ESXi server, I had to replace a physical disk of my RAID. Now that disk is replaced and rebuild finished, alarm continue beeping, and I don't understand by why, because everything seems to be ...
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LSI CacheCade Pro 2.0 with four SSD cache?

I'm trying to configure CacheCode Pro 2.0 on a LSI 9260CV-8i SAS RAID controller with four SATA SSDs. I've been running CacheCade with two SATA 400GB SSDs with no problems for a while. The CacheCade ...
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MegaCLI not seeing RAID card (LSI 9271-4i)

I have a server with LSI 9271-4i card and 4 HDDs. One day the server started malfunctioning and it wouldn't list any drive information. I rebooted the server and it never came up, so I have been using ...
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Uncorrectable medium error in 3 drives of the LSI-9260-16i RAID5 system

We have a storage machine (file server) with a LSI Megaraid 9260-16i RAID system, and 15 hard drives configured as RAID5 plus one off-lined hard drive which is going to be replaced. Each hard drive is ...
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MegaRAID: performance difference between volumes

I have a MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i with 2x 240GB SATA 6Gbps SSD in RAID1, 4x 10TB SAS 12Gbps HDD in RAID6 and 4x 480GB SATA 6 Gbps SSD in RAID5: -------------------------------------------------------------...
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MegaRaid Storage Manager - lack of option "Create Virtual Drive"

I'm using MegaRaid Storage Manager v 14.11.01.00 I want to create second Virtual Drive. I see Scan Foreing Configuration Save Configuration Clear Configuration Preserved Cache (greyed) Update ...
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MegaRAID: New SSDs blink red

Last week I installed two new SSDs for a customer. It's an Server 2016 Standard Core with Intel Xeon @ 3.70 GHz, 4x32GB RAM and LSI RAID-Controller 9341-8i. I created a RAID 1 with 2x1TB SSDs via ...
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smartd error [ATA error count increased]

I got a mail to root, (same error in syslog) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/bus/0 [megaraid_disk_12] [SAT], ATA error count increased from 0 to 9 Device info:...
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PERC 6/i Integrated RAID-0 from degraded and unconfigured RAID-10

A 4-drive RAID10 setup was made on a PERC 6/i Integrated card. One disk failed. While waiting for a disk replacement, the controller card died. Card was replaced, but unfortunately the foreign ...
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Slow 4K read/write speed

I've a problem of random writing speed on a Lenovo X3650 M5 with ServeRAID M5210. The server has seven 600GB SAS disks divided into two logical groups: a RAID1 (2 disks) and a RAID10 (4 disks) The ...
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MegaCLI Doesn't allow configured and unconfigured drives with no foreign configs found

I'm fairly new to MegaCLI and I've been having this one issue, after running megacli -CfgLdAdd -r1 [252:0,252:1,252:2,252:3,252:6,252:7] -a0 I get the error Mix of configured and unconfigured ...
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Fujitsu D2616 Raid Card Lsi Mega Raid Enable Ports

I have a Fujitsu server with D2616 raid contorller, this has 2 mini SAS ports on it with one connecting into a backpane where i have 4 hdd plugged in. This works fine however wanted some SSD's in ...
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What does media error count mean LSI MegaRaid?

So I got this server and if has a visual alert on one of the drive. After further investigating with storcli I notice that is has a few media error counts. I did some investigating about this and ...
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Why Megaraid-sas and mdadm Raid 1+0 = Raid 10 Slow actual read speeds?

One of raid cards were giving multibit ecc ram module failure , thats why I am moving 60TB of data from one server to another ... Getting 60-100 Mb/s read speeds 3 Megaraid sas raid1 s 8+8+6 x 10TB ...
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MegaRaid and power failures

I have a server that is currently working on migrating a RAID setup. There are 36 drives connected to an AVAGO 3108 MegaRAID, and as of this moment, the estimated time remaining is ~13 days. It's been ...
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Adding an Uncofigured Good drive to an existing drivegroup/RAID setup

I have a machine with a few drives in it. Running storcli /c0 show produces this relevant info, et.al.: TOPOLOGY : ======== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
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LSI RAID confusion

I've got a Cisco UCS server with a LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03). This has 2 disks configured as RAID1. controller. One of the disks was reporting a very high failure ...
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Lsi MegaRaid sas 9271-8i raid-0 crash

I have 8 hhd , all of it have RAID-0. Yesterday one disk change status to configurate good, it's disk with OS. And now I can't start my server , import foreign configuration not work, and I can not ...
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Does MegaRAID support creation of initially degraded RAID array?

I want to make a RAID5 array out of 3 disks, copy data from the one disk I have then clear it and add as a spare to the array. A similar magic I can do in linux with mdadm utility (mdadm --create drv1 ...
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Where to get storcli64 for Linux from LSI MegaRAID now that Broadcom has taken over?

I need the Linux shell interface, storcli64 for the Dell PERC H700 (aka LSI MegaRAID) as explained here and here, but the download links all appear to be defunct. How can I get the appropriate files ...
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Does this SMART report indicate a bad disk?

On a remote server, I have 2x3TB drives set in raid 0 with SLI raid card. I tried to run SMART tests to see if drives have a problem because server become unresponsive and one drive had to be put back ...
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BroadCom MegaRAID SAS 9361-24i Performance Issues

I have piles of 1TB Samsung mSATA drives that I'm trying to re-purpose for sever storage. I purchased 24 - StarTech 25SAT22MSAT adapters and fitted them with 2 mSATA drives each. I then enabled the ...
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MegaRAID Storage Manager constantly beeping

I have a home-built Supermicro file server in my office with a very beepy RAID controller. It's about 4 years old, and for the first 2 years everything was fine. Around then a drive failed, which I ...
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Bad Linux storage performance, in comparison with Windows on the same machine

(the question was reformulated, I think it needed to be more structured) We have a Proxmox VE on Dell PowerEdge R610 gen 8 system. The platform is old, but we use it for particular S/W which is well ...
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CentOS 8, Dell PERC H330 RAID controller, no block device (most of the time)

We recently bought a New Dell R340XL Server and installed CentOS 8. We have one SSD for boot on the BOSS controller (as sda) and 4 HDDS on the PERC H330 in RAID 5 (as sdb). It worked fine for a few ...
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MegaRaid LSI-9271-8i random drive failure

Anyone have tips on figuring out if I have a bad megaraid card? No matter how I configure with bbu or without. I am using wd red drives and even with brand spanking new drives it marks random drives ...
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what is the recommended RAID level for applications by MegaRAID 9261-8i [duplicate]

I wanna to know which RAID level is good to set for database usage, webservers and so on when I use MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i or 9263-8i.. I will glad if help me.
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MegaRAID reset "Other Error Count"

After an un-planned power-cycle of a megaraid controller, 23 of its disks show a single "Other Error Count". I've extracted the log, and these seems to correspond to the same number of Unexpected ...
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All disks show as Unconfigured Bad (UBAD) on RAID controller

Before starting, I will say I would appreciate help but really I need to hear from someone that has experienced this issue and how they solved it because the obvious and go to solutions are not ...
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LSI MegaRaid 9261-8i detects drives as "Unconfigured Good (Unsupported)"

i just purchased 9 SAS drives to create my home storage. 8 drives will work in Raid 6 and the 9th drive is a spare. however, after purchasing the LSI MegaRaid 9261-8i and connected only 6 drives for ...
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MEGARAID RAID 1 SSD WITH HOT SPARE AVAILABLE

I do not know whether this requires immediate action or not. W2012R2 server with two 500GB SSDs plus one identical Hot Global Spare. RAID is Megaraid. Screenshots from the RAID Utility are attached ...
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IBM x3650 accidentally deleted RAID5 Virtual Drive

I've got an IBM x3650 M3 server that I inherited. It's got 6 physical disks with RAID 5 using 0,1,2,3 and RAID 1 using 4,5. Disk 3 has failed and now I'm getting 'Hard Disk 0 failed' and I can't ...
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Do I need to initialize a MegaRAID virtual disk after adding it?

I have an AVAGO 3108 MegaRAID controller. I added a virtual disk with the storcli64 command below. Do I also need to run storcli /c0/v0 start initialization? storcli64 /c0 add vd type=r6 drives=0:0-...
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what does UNCONFIGURED BAD mean

have a few SAS ssd's, the $4000 kind {manufacturer name withheld}. I have had two now go to unconfigured bad after 1-2 hours of only powered on use, such that I am skeptical that the drive is not ...
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megaraid sas resetting fusion adapter

I'm running ESXi on a small home server and I'm seeing the following messages in ESXi logs: lsi_mr3: fusionCompletionBHIntr:3558: Firmware in fault state. WARNING: lsi_mr3: fusionReset:3918: ...
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High Availability with the Supermicro SMC2208 (MegaRAID)

I haven't been able to find a solid answer in the documentation, nor from the vendor since this model is out of production. We have a Supermicro SMC2208 24-drive-bay RAID. I would like to create a ...
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MegaRAID SAS Phy is bad on enclosure, no SAS address

I've inherited a MegaRAID SAS 24 bay RAID, that is also attached to two additional enclosures ( one 24 bay, and one 12 bay). I attempted to load 6 new drives into 6 consecutive empty drive bays on ...
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How do I remove a failing disk from a LSI MegaRAID disk group?

One of the disks in group 0 (EID:Slot 252:4, DiskID 12) is starting to fail it's smart tests: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 1837 200 ...
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Can the Megaraid 2208 mirrored root disks be hot swapped?

I've inherited a Supermicro SMC2208 RAID. The root drive (on which the OS is installed) is two RAID1 mirrored Intel SSDSC2CW240A3 240GB drives ... one of which is reporting as bad. Controller ID: 0 ...
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ServeRAID M5110 - does enabling T10-PI Data Protection require recreating all raid arrays?

The raid controller and drives seem to support T10-PI Data Protection information ('Type2'). It is currently disabled on the controller, and the MSM Ui doesn't show an option to enable it, but it is ...
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LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager - Delete primary array

Situation: server contains two RAID-1 arrays; one primary for OS and one secondary for data. My question is: If I delete primary array with command /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /c# /v# del what ...
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System slowdown by RAID controller fading away?

May system runs on a RAID 5 on a RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05) Since about a week the system becomes very slow. I get messages on the commant ...
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