Questions tagged [megaraid]
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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
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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
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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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replace RAID controller and keep raid5 configuration
On my system I want to replace my RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05) with a PERC H310.
Will it be possible to import the existing RAID5 ...
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MegaRAID SAS 2108 - Can I use different drives for the same array
I know you can in general use different drive manufactures and size in general but does anyone know if the MegaRAID SAS 2108 card will let me do RAID 5 with multiple drives that are not the same in ...
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See Pike raid status in ESXi 6.7
I am using ESXi 6.7 and have an Asus Pike 3108 card in the server. When I browse the Host | Monitor | Hardware | Storage I can see:
Avago (LSI) MegaRAID SAS Invader Controller #0
But the status is ...
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parted and fdisk not showing new size after expanding a RAID 1 volume (Proxmox/Debian)
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I need to extend a RAID 1 volume from a live Proxmox/Debian server that has a LSI SAS 2108 MegaRAID card, from 1TB to 2TB, I did this on a test environment albeit it was with a different ...
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LSI MegaRAID reports bad drive but SMART status is good
I am setting up a NAS with 8 known-good 8TB WD Red drives from a previous NAS. When I configure RAID 6 across these drives my (untested) LSI MegaRAID 9265-8I starts beeping and reports that that ...
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MegaRAID not accepting two out of four new identical drives
I've added four new drives (same model, HUH721010AL4200) to a server using a (supermicro) server with a LSI MegaRAID 3108 controller. I want to make a new RAID10 array with them, but I'm having ...
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Accidental SAS cable removal
We accidentally removed a SAS cable from an active AVAGO MegaRAID controller during a troubleshooting session. After we reconnected the SAS cable, all disks in the RAID6 disk array are reported as Frn-...
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ESXi 6.7 monitor hardware storage not showing usual results
Yesterday 2 of our ESXi hosts were updated from 6.5 to 6.7 (build 8169922), though after doing this we noticed a few quirks when trying to access the storage hardware monitoring.
In the web UI ...
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Persistent multiple medium errors on LSI RAID array
One of our SuperMicro servers with an onboard LSI 2308 RAID controller has been having issues with our main RAID10 array consisting of 4 Seagate 600 PRO SSD drives (in slots 0,1,2,3).
It started with ...
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Extending RAID 10 on MegaRAID
So I had a few servers with 8 drives configured in RAID 10. Four pairs of two drives in the RAID1 level. One of the drives went bad and the RAID controller removed one pair from the set, so it now ...
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MegaRAID/megacli - Mixed RAID on same disks
I would like to setup a limited-size RAID 10 array for the OS with write-through enabled for safety (no battery/UPS), and use the rest of the disks in a RAID 0 with write-back enabled for performance (...
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MegaRAID: what does yellow "r" on drive icon mean?
One of our drives has a yellow square overlay on its icon in the Drives list. I think there's an "r" in the square (see image). I can't find this described in the MegaRAID manual anywhere.
When I ...
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How to identify disk make and model attached to a MegaRAID controller?
I have a system with a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i and some attached disks in a RAID 10 configuration. I don't have physical access to the system but I have root access via SSH.
Various tools - lspci, ...
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Importing Foreign Drive with Megaraid Webbios
I've recently acquired an old server and decided to set it up as a home server. Having never set up a server before, I accidentally cleared a foreign configuration that kept two of my drives on it. ...
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Add disk to virtual drive using MegaRaid Storage Manager
I have a RAID 5 setup on an LSI 9361-24i with three virtual drives and six physical disks. When I setup the arrays one of my disks was dead on arrival and I had to do an RMA with Western Digital, but ...
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RAID Controller Firmware Issue
Background: I'm a Linux newbie with very limited knowledge, I wanted to build a RAID 10 for our startup after experiencing a complete loss of several terabytes of data from Dropbox recently.
Setup: ...
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MegaRAID storage manager update and now tons of media errors
I was just poking around a 5 year old server and noticed the MegaRAID storage manager (14.08.01) appeared to be not responding. The server has been running for something like 400 days without ...
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Expanding Logical Disk on Fujitsu Primergy T150 S7 running Serverview
We have a Fujitsu Primergy T150 S7 with an LSI based D2616 RAID controller with a logical drive running on two 146GB SAS drives and RAID 1. We need to expand the logical drive, so we bought two new ...
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Duplicate Slot Numbers for MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator]
Why are duplicate Slot Numbers shown in storcli/Megacli output?
# lspci -nn | grep -i mega
01:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] [1000:0079] (rev ...
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Debian - Installation of LSI MegaRAID SNMP AGENT
My OS is :
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie)
Release: 8.9
Codename: jessie
I succeded to install the MegaRaid Storage Manager and I can use StorCli.
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How to add a hotspare with storcli to a LSI MegaRAID controller?
I have a LSI MegaRAID controller. I pulled out a failed drive and replaced it with a good one. I didn't run any special storcli commands before this, I just swapped the drives. Unsure if that was a ...
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Is RAID 170 a Proprietary RAID Config or a Combination of Traditional RAID Configs?
I acquired a Cisco c240 M4 with twenty-four (24) 800 GB SATA SSD. I requested the engineers configure the disks in two separate RAID 10 arrays (18 + 4), plus with a hot spare for each. The LSI ...
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megacli unconfigured(bad) disk status
megacli tell me, there is an issue with one of my disk.
Howerver, I am not sure that this disk actually exist.
Here is megaclisas-status info :
-- Controller information --
-- ID | H/W Model ...
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On R720xd with H710p I want to delete a VD without reboot. MegaRAID Storage Manager gives me "this is an OS drive" and refuses
I'm trying to reorganize VD on Dell R720xd without reboot.
iDRAC queues VD deletion for reboot time.
A hack with installing LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager GUI refuses to delete VD saying "this is an ...
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Identification of a Failing Drive on a PERC H700
I need some expert assistance.
I have home LAB ESX box where I'm using a Dell PERC H700 raid card with RAID 6 on ports 0-5 & RAID1 on ports 6-7. The last few nights when my backups run I get ...
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Disable hardware RAID controller
I have a storage server with Supermicro X9SCL(+)/X9SCM motherboard and MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i controller. I want to disable RAID to access HDDs directly from OS for further softraid setup.
Motherboard ...
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IBM x3850 m2 raid card and linux 4.4 kernel
I have an IBM x3850 m2 server, with ibm serveraid mr10k raid card, wich is a lsi megaraid card.
My problme is, if I try to run linux, with 4.4 kernel I need to use iommu=soft kernel arg to make it ...
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MegaRAID Storage Manager: cannot set Patrol Read properties
When I click on "Set Patrol Read Properties" nothing happens, e.q. no window opens in which I can set all properties regarding the Patrol Read.
The MegaRAID Storage Manager version is 16.02.00.04 ...
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megacli all the Disks in a VD(RAID 6) are missing
I have a server with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9286CV-8e. After an incident, this server which 4 VDs(RAID 6) only 2 are back. When I scan for foreign configurations it says 3 foreign configurations found. But ...
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StorCLI: storcli show and "Hlth: Opt": how exhaustive is this?
I'm working on a script using StorCLI (Ver 1.21.06).
When I run:
./storcli show
I get (abbreviated):
Status Code = 0
Status = Success
As well as:
Hlth:
Opt
Q1. I'm curious to know what the ...
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megaraid storage manager doesn't see localhost raid
we have linux red hat 6 on ibm server and we had raid 10 on it which we monitored with megaraid storagemanager and everything was fine.
but on 3 days ago we restarted server (poweroff, pressed button ...
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lsi megaraid convert raid 0 to raid 10 without data loss?
I am using a lsi megaraid controller with firmware version 2.130.353-1819 (aug 09 2012).
There I had a raid 5 with 4x4tb disks.
What I wanted to do is to migrate from raid 5 to raid 10. The megaraid ...
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Hard disk is not detecting in Lenovo Thinkserver RD450
We bought a new Lenovo ThinkServer RD450 rack server.
It has two numbers of 1 GB hard disk. We configured the RAID 1 in the server, and then we started the Debian Jessie OS installation. During the ...
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MegaRAID: what does "Is VD emulated: No" mean
When executing "MegaCLI -LdInfo -LdAll -a0", some of my servers report a property "Is VD emulated: No", and some report "Is VD emulated: Yes". I could not find an explanation for this setting, or how ...
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How do I extend a RAID5 array with storcli?
I just bought a new disk. How do I extend an existing RAID array without losing data?
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LSI MegaRAID: How to convert between Dedicated Hot Space (DHS) to Global Hot Spare (GHS)?
To see your drives, use storcli /c0 show all or storcli /c0/eXXX/sALL show (replace XXX with the enclosure ID or EID). In my case, the output looks like this:
Drive Information :
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How to fix LSI MegaRaid RAID5 after 1 disk failed
My LSI MegaRaid just told me one disk is "UBad" which I assume means it failed:
EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp Type
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Debian Server unexpected stopped
Last night one of our Debian 7 Servers unexpectedly stopped working.
I've never seen such a "crash" before, so i hope someone here can give me a clue what happened here.
System Infos:
Debian 7.11 @ ...
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LSI MegaRaid SAS 9271-4i - "Upgrade Key Missing" after 2012R2 update
We have a ZealBox server 2012R2 with Supermicro mainboard and an attached LSI MegaRaid SAS 9271-4i controller running a RAID 1.
After a normal Windows Update and a following attempt to reboot, the ...
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How does Linux tell an LSI Megaraid card to flush its cache before shutdown?
The LSI Megaraid controller has a Battery back up for its write cache, which allows, in the event of an unanticipated power outage, to retain the cached, not yet written data, so it can write it out ...
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How to map a virtual drive (RAID 0, PERC) to Linux
I have two different RAID arrays on a server. The first virtual drive is a RAID 10 with 4 disks and is already mapped to the OS. Now I have created another array with RAID 0 and one disk. Because the ...
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LSI Megaraid add a disk in RAID 0 besides a configured RAID 10 array
We have an active RAID 10 with four disks. Now we want to add one disk in RAID 0 to the adapter.
This is the current configuration:
# megacli -LDInfo -Lall -Aall
Adapter 0 -- Virtual Drive ...