Questions tagged [megaraid]
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PERC MegaRAID S.M.A.R.T. Status is not matching smartctl's - looking for clues what's wrong with the HDD
I'm getting strange SMART error from MegaCli on Dell R720xd and PERC H710P with five 4Tb SATA drives in RAID5
/opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL
gives me some "Failure Seq Event Number"
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LSI MegaRaid configuring for MDADM RAID disk set
I have an 8 bay SATA/SAS LSI MegaRAID controller and have to mount a set of drives that were assembled RAID 6 by mdadm on a non RAID controlled other device (both supermicro).
Is it possible to ...
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Setting drive spindown time on megacli
I'm having trouble setting the spindown time on MegaRaid using MegaCLI. Apparently, I'm doing something wrong - in essence, I'd like to set default spindown time for all disks.
I'm trying this:
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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MegaRAID possibly failing
We are trying to see if a disk has failed or if it is the card. Researched on this forum and found this -> Drive is failing but LSI MegaRAID controller does not detect it
However, we are getting that ...
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MegaRAID Rebuild required after PdOffline + PdOnline?
In a RAID6 array with 12 disks I have taken a disk offline to flash new firmware, then brought it online again:
MegaCli64 -PdOffline -PhysDrv[8:0] -a0
MegaCli64 -PdFwDownload -PhysDrv[8:0] -f ...
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VMWare ESXi 5.x - Megaraid controller and SMIS - correct way to monitor/manage controller?
I found some information online: How to Enable RAID Monitoring and Configuration under ESXi 5.x as well as here on ServerFault here: How can I get an email alert when RAID array is degraded? VMware ...
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settings on a PERC H310 crossflashed to 9211-8i/IR
I'm using MegaRAID Storage Manager on Windows Server 2012 R2 and am trying to change some settings on the card. Sadly, the settings are missing entirely from the menu when I right-click on the ...
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Slow IO Performance with PERC H700/710 with current linux distributions
we noticed really bad write performance, on our new Dell R720 with Perc 710.
Especially when it come to writing a lot of small files.
The funny thing is that this bad performance only occurs on newer ...
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Disk errors Event ID 51 on LSI MegaRAID 9240-8i in RAID 1
I am working on a case of recurrent disk errors.
Server is running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard.
There are two main disks on a mirrored RAID.
There is also an additional drive that is used for ...
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SNMP agent for LSI MegaRAID does not display updated Temperatures
I have an ASUS PIKE 2208 ( this is LSI SAS2208 ROC ) configured and working with four physical drives. Additionally I have installed the LSI SNMP agent. The agent provides all the data defined by the ...
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running commands on physical drives on different backplane with megacli
So when I run "MegaCli64 -PDlist -aALL -NoLog | egrep 'Slot|state|Inquiry|Enclosure'" to grab a list of disks and their status. I can see a total of 36 disks. The issue is that they have the same slot ...
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I forget to record the physical disk sequence for MegaRAID before transfer. Is there any way to recover.
I was so careless when I send my server for repairing. I removed disks from chassis to protect the data, but I did not record the position sequence for each disk and my raid card failed to build RAID5 ...
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Patrol Read Aborted on PD
Getting “Patrol Read Aborted on PD" warning message on MegaRAID Storage Manager. After research I found that Patrol Read and Consistency Check (CC) was scheduled by controller to run at the same time (...
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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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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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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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storcli64 not importing a foreign dg with disks previously offline
I experienced a weird cascade of disk "failures" w/in a few minutes on a AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i on Linux. During this time, a hot spare drive was never spun up. Ignoring a few ...
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Can MegaRAID controllers use their writeback cache in JBOD mode?
Similar to this question, but for Broadcom/LSI controllers: Can MegaRAID controllers use the onboard disk cache for JBOD drives? (I would like to enable the controller's hardware cache and then use ...
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LSI MegaRAID SAS 3108: Restoring the online state from Foreign Bad (Frn-Bad) state
We have a Virtual Disk in RAID 5 using only 5 disks, one disk probably is broken because it was in an alert before. Another disk was accidentally pulled out and then it was marked as Frn-Bad when it ...
