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• Cisco C240-M4SX / 12G SAS Embedded Raid Controller Queue depth Reporting resulting in ESXi 6.0

  All,

  We have been a customer of vSAN VMware 6.0 for the last 6 months of our environment entirely on servers of Cisco C240 M4SX with the Cisco 12 G SAS integrated Raid Controller.   Everything in the environment was working well until we started to bring in data warehouse loads in the environment and began to notice performance around latency of disk and most important issues still outstanding IO high.  After that ESXtop and ESXCFG examination we found that the length of the queue announced to the adapter ESXi has been only 234 however the VMware HCL Announces 895; 234 is below minimum spec of 256 to correctly implement vSAN.  We have worked diligently with VMware on it to try different versions certified and non certified driver async for this raid controller in addition to the most recent firmware for the raid controller.  Regardless of the change of the depth of the queue remained 234.  The presence of FBWC affect the depth of queue announced to the operating system?  VMware support has indicated that it is clearly a problem "hardware".  Any ideas as to what may be causing this?

  Our environment:

  C240-M4SX

  Integrated 12G SAS Raid Controller (operation JBOD / pass-through, not FBWC)

  UCSM 2.2 (6 c)

  Driver of VMware for controller: 6.606.06.00 - 1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib

  VMware vSphere 6.0U1

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  Greetings.

  Had the chance to spend some time in the laboratory and removed the cache module.

  After that, I now get "207", so I would say it's confirmed that 1,2,4 GB cache modules are used to increase the depth/length of the queue for these controllers.

  12gb_sas_qdepth_no_cache.jpg

  

  Thank you

  Kirk

• During the 5.5 ESXi installation VMFS paratiton detects not for installtion raid controller

  Hello

  I try to install ESXi on Fujitsu RX200 Fijitsu equipped S8 Intel controller to scrub (new edition) installation that I try to install the VMFS disk raid 1 created of 500 GB

  I get a screen that shows no space and I can't install it further.

  Is my question there a way to install it and provide the controller before or during the boot with ESXi 5.5 driver

  Please advice

  Thank you

  Intel C600 is taken in charge, but only in the disk controller. NO raid-controller. C600 is Intel chipset. It is not dedicated hw-raid controller...

• For ESXi 4.1 - 2805 Adaptec RAID controller?

  Hello.

  ASUS is not come through one of the PIKES are delivering controllers, I am looking for an another SAS/SATA Raid Controller supporting at least 6 disks and Raid 1 + 0, what I also learned as ESXi requires that it be a H/W Raid Controller.

  I'm looking on the Adaptec RAID 2805 controller specifically.

  It is one of the adapter entry level Raid controllers, then it is offered at a low cost and whereas it will be a small "House" use server runs a number of images of Windows/Linux, I don't think it would be as sensitive as the price difference is to choose an Adaptec RAID 5805 controller instead.

  It is, does anyone have any experience with the Adaptec RAID 2805 controller? Since it is not listed on the compatibility guide, however the Adaptec RAID 2405 is and as far as I can tell the difference is the number of channels op. the 2405 would properly cover my needs as well if I could find a retailer for her near me.

  So, the question, because any who have experience running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a Raid 1 + 0, using SATA disks with any of the listed controllers?

  OK, found a Danish dealer who could acquire the LSI card.

• ESX4i does not see the RAID controller card

  I install the ESX4 and the ESXi4. Considering that ESX sess card RAID controller, ESXi4 will not work. I was wondering if there was a solution to this?

  Memory I don't remember ESXi4 support adding additional drivers (unlike ESX4 Installer) but I was wondering if I climbed to U1 ESX4i, that would help. Or is just "not supported"?

  Concerning

  Mike Landry

  www.RTFM-Ed.co.uk

  My problem has been resolved by the way of the ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.0 Update 1... which includes a driver update...

  I managed to ESXi in order to run from a USB key on the servers, but found the previous day, and DPM mode did not work properley. While he was going to suspend the ESX box very well, the machine just and seems to lose its settings to boot PXE boot - regardless of what I did with the BIOS...

  I found ESX4i U1 to install on the physical disk is more reliable...

  Concerning

  Mike

• vSAN RAID controller compliance

  Hello

  I improved vSphere to 6U1/vSAN 6.1 last night and everything went very well - happy days. I noticed that the new plugin of the health has reported a compliance issue with my Raid Controller driver version. Either way, I'll have a latency intermittent host at this time and I think that this could be the culprit. I'm totally confused however as what needs to be installed. Before you deploy vSAN (about a month), I've updated through iDRAC all devices on my Dell R720xd 3 including RAID - H710Mini PERC controllers.

  vSAN THAT HCL needs:

  Firmware: 3.131.05 - 3415

  Pilot: megaraid_sas version 6.603.55.00.1vmw

  I need to reboot the servers to check the firmware version as iDRAC States 21.3.1 - 0004, which is apparently, according to this thread of dell, the version of the package, but assuming that the firmware version is correct, it leaves me with the driver update to version megaraid. I use a Dell ESXI ISO's so my question is, where can I get the megaraid driver and how do I install it in ESXI?

  Any help would be massively appreciated.

  That scrap. I've upated the "copy local HCL DB" and then ran a new test and everything is in line/green so everything seems fine!

• It is possible to examine the status of heath on my RAID controller?

  I have now installed ESXi with a new hardware raid controller and its working perfect, so now I think how I can watch on my diske is OK or fail?

  Can I someway check my status of heath on my controller raid and eg. get a mail if somtings are wrong?

  My raid controller is LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i - 128xHDD

  Thanks for your time.

  You must install the CIM providers for controller LSI/MegaRAID on the ESXi. But it seems that they are not yet available for VMWare 6.0, if you try the 5.5.

  Check 'Software downloads'-> 'Management software and tools' article on above page LSI.

  Thereafter, you need a workstation on the same subnet and you can install MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) and connect to the CIM provider.

  Here's a KB on LSI for VMWare 5.0 for example tools, but you might find more / more detailed by Googling a bit descriptions: VMware KB: ESXi 5.0 Server Management Tool media LSI

• How do I know what RAID controller works the box?

  Using the VMware Compatibility Guide, how do I know what RAID controller works out of the box (no installation necessary driver, no action necessary special) for 5.5 ESXi update 2?

  PS - I initially assumed that if they appear then they work OOB, but there is nothing on the page registration or landing pages of the device that makes this clear.

  Once you click the RAID controller in the HCL, you will see all the supported versions of ESXi with the appropriate driver listed as "inbox" or async". There may be more driver for a specific version, but if one of them is stated as "inbox", it is supposed to work out of the box.

  André

• P410 HP and SSD RAID controller

  In my server lab currently have a HP P400 RAID controller and it works well. But I would like to have support for SSDS and submitted them to ESXi as such. Currently the SSD is discovered in the Non - SSD.

  Can anyone confirm that if I switch to the controller P410, ESXi will discover SSD drives correctly?

  
  

  I bought a P410 because of this problem, but I upgraded to vCenter 5.5 before swapping controllers and it turns out that 5.5 correctly identifies the SSD on P400.

  I guess it is also the P410.

• Signature LUN after replacement of the RAID controller

  I have the following scenario:

  I had a Cisco UCS server with an LSI controller. I needed to replace the controller to another, the same form, different model.

  I've done the replacement physical, powered on the server. ESXi starts fine, but no data store appears. Data warehouses are on the local hard drive. There is no remote storage.

  When I try to add the data store, I had 2 options of mainly:

  -Keep the existing signature

  -A new signature assing.

  I'm sure both will work, and I'd go with the first.

  However, I would like to know what impact the selection of one of these options. Similar cases, I will, will that be the best since I'm on a new material for RAID controller?

  Or would it not matter at all if I keep the same signature?

  I have beenr of reading on these 2 options, and for local storage, they do not seem to make any difference, but would like to know any other thoughts.

  I kinda fear Award for a new signature.

  Thank you.

  Due to the replacement of the controller, the ESXi host now recognizes the LUN as a snapshot LUN, it contains a signature known, but it is presented to another controller. Given that you can ensure that the logic unit number is unique, I don't see a requirement for resignaturing it.

  André

• Disk HARD/RAID controller not no projection in the State of health

  I've recently updated several ESXi 4.x hosts 5.1 and after the upgrade disks and the raid controller are showing is more in the section of the State of health of vSphere. The servers are all Dell PowerEdge 2950 and I even tried to make a fresh full install which did not help either. Here is a screenshot of the State of health of the problematic server. I need to get this resolved so that our monitoring solution can see the status of the disks/table.

  

  Here is a screenshot of an another PowerEdge 2950 still under 4.1 and it shows the disk controller and raid fine.

  

  Anyone seen this before? or have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

  Thank you

  Greg

  For any other person who comes through this, the problem is caused by ESXi 5.x is no longer handling/Bay record of voting in the same way as 4.x and earlier (see screenshots in an original message for comparisons). The only way to get the matrix of discs/fully new election is to have the ESXi host managed by vCenter (standalone no longer works). Hope this helps others as it was a big headache for me for awhile.

• hardware RAID controller of VMware hypervisor 5.0

  Hello!

  We intend to buy HP Proliant DL380 G7 with 4 HDD hot swapable, now what I want to do is to configure this 4 HDD for RAID 1 + 0

  1. If I install VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 do I need to buy a hardware RAID controller, to be able to install ESXi 5.0?

  Thank you

  Michael

  Yes, if it is one of the 3 models mentioned in the section "storage controller."

  Models of HP Smart Array P410i/Zero Memory Controller (RAID 0/1/1 + 0)
  Base models HP Smart Array P410i/256 MB controller (RAID 0/1/1 + 0/5/5 + 0)
  Models of performance HP Smart Array P410i / 1 G FBWC controller (RAID 0/1/1 + 0/5/5 + 0)
  Available upgrades: 1 G FBWC 512 MB FBWC, 256 MB, 512 MB with BBWC, battery set level (for 256 MB cache) and Smart Array Advanced Pack (SAAP)

  then the controller hardware RAID (P410i) is already included and you can only get the FBWC.

  André

• Dynamic ESXi RAID

  Hello

  We seek to build an ESXi server and I can't find information on the RAID configuration. Specifically, we want to start with a RAID 5 of 3 disks and who develop dynamically as needed by adding drives.

  Is this possible at all? If so it would be through ESXi, or do we need to do through BIOS or other means?

  We will probably with the ASUS Z8PE-d12 mother card with built-in RAID support.

  If there is a discussion devoted to the RAID and hardware installation, please let me know and I'll read up there.

  Thank you!

  The Council you mention is not listed in the HCL official (http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php).

  If you want to run this server into production, you should really consider using hardware support!

  On the RAID configuration. A RAID5 with 3 drives is one of the slower configurations that you could choose. Examine at least 4 disks or go with RAID 1 or RAID 10 and check that your RAID controller write cache.

  André

• Advice on the Sata Raid Controller

  Hi all

  After a months long test of ESXi 3.5, now I want to configure a more robust system based on a Dell SC 1420, but with an updated Sata Raid Controller to level.  I need to choose a mid Sata Raid controller price (£120 - £150) but I'm worried about compatibility.

  Can anyone recommend a Sata Raid which will give good performance and is supported with ESXi 3.5

  I don't want to change the configs and others, even if other people seem to have made this summer with success.

  Dave

  Go to www.vm-help.com. (Awesome site of Dave M) You will find a whitebox HCL it as well as Sata controllers. Note that these llisted are not supported by VMware, but have been confirmed to work.

  Nemasis

• LSI SAS3041E-R SAS/SATA Raid Controller

  The PCI - X version is in the official, but the above is PCIe and is not. They are both the same, just different interfaces. Has anyone used this controller or whether work with ESXi U3? There is no processor or memory card listed for this controller, so I guess than fakeraid his. Can anyone confirm?

  Nemasis

  LSI controllers are not usually false RAID controllers - those who are generally real RAID controllers.  In addition, if the PCI - X version of the RAID controller is listed, it is likely that the PCIe version will also work.