LSI Logic LSI SAS vs parallel?

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• HP Z820 - BIOS 02.55 rev A - SSD on LSI SAS 2308 do not start... "Non-system disk...". »

  Hello

  MY Z820 workstation is equipped with an Intel 520 240 GB SSD as boot drive, on the integrated LSI SAS 2308 controller. It is a GPT disk.

  I just tried to update my BIOS Rev 02.08 Z820. at 02.55 a. rev.

  The update succeeded, and in the BIOS, I check that all the settings are the same as before the update. On the boot, however, I get an error saying "Non system disk or disk error."

  Mass strorage option ROM is set to EFI mode.

  No matter what the settings, it does not start in Windows.

  I started 02.08 BIOS Rev A and now all is well again.

  Is there a compatibility issue with the BIOS 02.55 Rev A combo, Intel SSD 520 and LSI SAS 2308?

  Kind regards

  Dries Vervoort

  LAST UPDATED:

  The Z820 motherboard was faulty. A HP technician swapped the moherboard with a new one and now all is well again!

  The storage controller was indeed defective.

  Dries

• LSI sas to pvscsi

  I changed my scsi lsi sas to pvscsi adapter, but then the 2012 server will not start. What is the process to change the adapter? Is there a great performance benefit to LSI sas to pvscsi?

  Thank you

  RDM will be still less resources than VMDK. This may not always translate into better performance. In this case, you really have to do a few tests to decide what will be the ideal combination for your specific virtual machines. But, Yes, MDM with pvscsi must have the best performance of all the scenarios.

• LSI SAS 9211-8i performance problem. (2 MB/s)

  Hello

  I got the LSI SAS 9211-8i adapter to implement an ESXi 4.1 server to host a set of virtual machines.

  I attached 8 6 GB/s Western Digital HDDs to the adapter and put into RAID 10.

  Everything was OK during the installation and initial configuration, but when it came time to transfer all the virtual machines in this

  individual ESX server, the best data transfer rate was somewhere between 2-3 MB/s.

  I've already updated the BIOS and the firmware in the adapter, but still no luck getting it to transfer more quickly.

  Only time wherever I was able to get improved data transfer speeds was when I removed the RAID and had all 8 disks individually,

  But even in this case, the performance was so-so. (4-5 MB/s).

  NOTE: If I connect a hard drive to the motherboard and install ESXi 4.1 on the disc, the speed of data transfer are very good.

  Data sheet:

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  Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D-E

  Processor: Core i7 950

  RAM: 24 GB DDR3

  hard drive: Western Digital WD5002AALX

  NIC: Intel PRO/1000MT

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  I would really appreciate if anyone has ideas or suggestions.

  Kind regards

  Mikey

  Yes, it is built to a price. There is nothing wrong with it. LSI has just removed features (cache and the option to add it) to make it to sell for a price conscious buyer.

• LSI SAS HBA Boot disabled R720

  How can we disable LSI SAS HBA to start? I JBOD connected to it and do not want to analyze and attempt to start on reboot or start the process

  I believe that you can accomplish this by entering in BIOS and under integrated devices click on the invalidity of the slot. For the specific PCIe slot set the invalidity of the slot to "Boot driver disabled. This will allow the slot be visible to the OS, but it is not available as a boot device.

• LSI-9210-8i (LSI SAS 2008) written very unstable and purple screen

  Hello!

  I have a serious stability problem and I am not able to understand how to solve.

  I have an IBM ServerRaid M1015 (oem of a LSI-9220-8i version) I reflashed with the ISIS software (9210-8i IT mode, but see below for details).

  When I started with ESXi and create a virtual machine with a big virtual disk (90% of the physical disk), the creative process hangs after some time (about 10% for a vdisk 145GB on a 160 GB pdisk)

  and I get a lot of 'stuff' in the file vmkernel.log (see attachment logfiles). Finally, ESXi will be purple screen and die.

  I seem to be able to make the small diskaccesses with no problems.

  To test if it's a hardware problem, I have:

  • I did a new install of Debian - 6.0, and there everything works without problem.
  • I only did a new install of Solaris-11u1 no problem here too: the controller was FAST!
  • I tried to move the controller to another host (HP DL120 G6), same problem here.
  • I even tried to buy another controller (which worked perfectly with the included IBM software but after that I have reflashed with the LSI-9210-8i IT firmware, that he was not only the first)
  • I tried a cable cutter instead of HP backplane to be sure it wasn't the bottom of basket that gave me problems.
  • I tried to move the map to another location PCIe cable 8087 to the other port on the controller card.

  The system configuration:

  • VMware: ESXi - 5.1.0update1 (build 1065491)
  • Machine: HP ML150 G6 (12 GB of memory, BIOS: ø21) and HP DL120 G7
  • Controller: IBM M1015 reflashed to LSI-9210-8i (2108it.bin firmware Version: 16.00.00.00 release date: February 27, 13, BIOS-7, 31)
  • ESXi drivers:
    Before the update:

  # esxcfg-scsidevs - has | grep mpt

  vmhba0 mpt2sas link-n/a sas.500605b002aa7ea0 (0:5:0.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI2008

  # vmkload_mod s mpt2sas | grep Version

  Version: Version 10.00.00.00.5vmw, version: 799733, Interface: built 9.2: 1 August 2012

  # vmkload_mod s mptspi | grep Version

  Version: Version 4.23.01.00 - 6vmw, version: 799733, Interface: built 9.2: 1 August 2012

  Update:

  # esxcli software update v vib - /tmp/tmp/scsi-mpt2sas-16.00.00.00.1vmw-1OEM.500.0.0.472560.x86_64.vib

  Result of the installation

  Message: The update completed successfully, but the system must be restarted for the changes to be effective.

  Restart required: true

  VIBs installed: LSI_bootbank_scsi - mpt2sas_16.00.00.00.1vmw - 1OEM.500.0.0.472560

  VIBs removed: VMware_bootbank_scsi - mpt2sas_10.00.00.00 - 5vmw.510.0.0.799733

  VIBs ignored:

  After update:

  # esxcfg-scsidevs - has | grep mpt

  vmhba0 mpt2sas link-n/a sas.500605b002aa7ea0 (0:5:0.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI2008

  # vmkload_mod s mpt2sas | grep Version

  Version: Version 16.00.00.00.1vmw, Build: 472560, Interface: built 9.2: February 28, 2013

  # vmkload_mod s mptspi | grep Version

  Version: Version 4.23.01.00 - 6vmw, version: 799733, Interface: built 9.2: 1 August 2012

  I have attached the log files from the system. Is anyone able to point me in a direction for a fix? Or any who have used IBM M1015 (in mode IT) with VMware - 5.1

  This starts to become just a little frustrating! :-)

  I cannot conclude 100% but it seems to be a driver problem ESXi or the combination of firmware and driver.

  Best regards

  -Morten Hermansen, Fanitas Green

  Hello!

  It seems that VMware ESXi 5.5 have a conflict pilot with different controllers in the same machine at the same time.

  I have been using the LSI AND the controller on the motherboard for extra drive supported.

  When I only disks on the controller LSI wanished of problems!

  I have why it worked in the Debian and Solaris with disks on both controllers, but not in ESXi. I tried to level the firmware and drivers of LSI, but he will get unstable on me when using different types of controllers at the same time.

  Best regards

  -Morten Hermansen, Fanitas Green

• RAID-5 performance of LSI SAS 2008 m - 8i in C240 M3?

  Anyone can take the floor to exercise the option of controller RAID mezzanine in the C240, especially in a RAID-5 configuration? I need set up a C240 with all 5 PCIe slots consumed with interface cards, so I'll need to use the mezzanine card option. The 2008 m does not support a BBU, but what I understand, it supports the write cache and has a processor shipped to XOR to unload so I expect it has correct performance of RAID-5/50. I can't seem to find the guides or documentation only.

  Finally, we replaced Cisco UCSC RAID SAS 2008 M - 8i (SLOT-MEZZ) with LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i with memory cahce and BBU (with SuperCap TMM-C) and helped write back cache policy - drive performance fantastically improved.

• BSoD under Win2k3 x 64 VM with LSI Logic SAS, VM v7 creation

  Hi all

  Curious about the performance I try to create a new virtual machine template using the newly installed ESXi 4 with the following configuration:

  OS: Windows Server 2003 x 64 standard

  NIC: VMXNet 3

  SCSI controller: LSI Logic SAS

  VM version: 7

  and he has failed the windows partition initial setupsee the following attachment.

  would it because I install on my local partition SATA?

  Kind regards

  AWT

  This isn't a BSoD, mate. It just says that the installer cannot detect hard drives, usually due to the lack of built-in support for the the operating system images to disk controller.

  The new LSI SAS controller W2k3 boot is currently not possible and the SAS controller is only intended to be used for W2k8 Clustering because it supports SCSI-3 reservations.

  You can try adding the driver manually with a floppy or something, but you must use the parallel controller LSI logic in any case.

• LSI Logic SAS drivers for Windows 2003

  Hello

  I hope someone can point me in the direction of the LSI Logic SAS for Windows 2003 driver.  I would like to use the controller scsi LSI SAS to the C:\, but I can't find a driver.  What model of card of LSI is being virtualized?

  I use this one. Works very well.

  http://www.LSI.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068/index.html

  It is not in format flp. to make flp follow these steps.

  Download on a virtual computer.

  connect a floppy drive to the virtual machine and choose to create a flp on the data store.

  Copy the files into the floppy drive and you now have your lsi sas pilot flp to use during the installation.

  BR

  Jørgen

• Turn down HDs in Raid LSI PowerEdge

  As a server, I got a Power Edge 840 with a Raid at LSI SAS controller on a SAS backplane with 3 Seagate Cheetah 15K.5. There are debian running on a Raid 5.  The HDs spin down and even with megacli, I could not convince them to do so. The server of the idling consumes 110W@1,6ghz, which is high. Any ideas?

  Hello Stefan,

  The controllers LSI with the PE840-supported were the SAS 5iR and PERC 5 / i. None of these spin down supported, which was not available until the H700/H800 in 2009. If you have a different controller LSI (not necessarily one a Dell brand) let me know what model and I might be able to help the conclusion of the procedure documentation to set up a physical drive individual spin-down.

• Enterprise 64 Windows 10 10074 to 10130 update fails with drive LSI Paravirtual & View Agent gives BSOD on Ctrl + Alt + Ins\Del

  I continued to try to update version 10074 to 10130 and it would be to start the Recovery Wizard. Starting in Windows it would bring the 0x8024001e error.

  The virtual machine has paravirtual disk controller. I added a second drive SCSI 2:1 and changed this LSI SAS controller and booted up and configured the drive. Then I stop and changed the paravirtual to SAS drive. Then the update was successful. Could be a coincidence, but I tried half a dozen times before.

  Once updated, I changed back to paravirtual and things were fine, at least with a tip upward.

  Trying to connect view Agent 6.0.2 - 2331487 or 6.1.1 - 2769635 were installed results in a BSOD with error DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (kbdclass.sys). Remove the agent from the view and the Ctrl + Alt + Delete works very well, but now we cannot use view horizon on Windows 10 Tech Preview. So sad.

  

  So sad.

  Post edited by: EricNichols BSOD on Windows 10 10130 with sight agent 6.0.2 +.

  FIX:

  RDP in the box and edit HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E96B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} \UpperFilters put kbdclass before vmkbd

• raid LSI 2308 controller question

  Hi experts

  Someone with experience with the raid LSI 2308 controller? When I look at my card storage in ESX5.5.2 I see. But when I look through cli it says no map found:

  / opt/lsi/bin/sas2flash # / dev-list

  Utility of flashing SAS2 LSI Corporation

  Version 18.00.0.00 (2013.11.18)

  Copyright (c) 2008-2013 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved

  LSI SAS adapters found no! Limited order available!

  ERROR: Command not allowed without an adapter.

  ERROR: Cannot create order-list

  Quit the program.

  / dev #.

  I need to load the firmware first to make it work? Like this guy mentioned here? http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2014/04/08/updating-LSI-firmware-ESXi-commandline/

  I had three SSD that is not at all recognized by ESX and I'm trying to see if the LSI is perhaps what is needed to make it work.

  Thank you

  update the necessary lsi driver. esx5.5.2 removed some less common drivers.

• Z210 and SAS HBA: those that will work?

  I have an Z210 with the processor E-1240 and 16 GB of RAM, Win7 64-bit.  I have a few hard drives SAS 15 K HP's and I want to install on this machine - but the Z210 has no integrated SAS controller. I discovered that there is an Avid Certified version of this computer, and it uses a controller LSI SAS SAS9200-8F to hang the external storage drives. LSI SAS9200 - 8 used to be available in a version of the internal interface (LSI SAS 9200-8i), but that is only apparently now deployed for IBM and there are no Windows 7 drivers.

  I want to install an INTERNAL SAS HBA. and I noticed that there is an older model, the LSI SAS3041e, which has drivers for Windows7 64-bit available. So, I think that this cheap SAS HBA could be a good candidate for my Z210.

  Has anyone any how SAS HBA in an Z210 properly installed? Specifically the SAS3041e LSA? I think that the issue could boil down to how you install drivers and access the HBA for the boot BIOS...

  DRM for your collective wisdom!

  Well, after much research, I decided that the LSI SAS3041-e (non-RAID) controller was a likely candidate. They are available on eBay for almost nothing.

  I just installed one in my Z210 and it was as easy as possible: Although the technical docs of LSI a several step process to load the drivers Windows 7 Pro 64-bit with Service Pack 1 installed, the drivers are already present in Windows 7 Pro. I plugged the controller, hooked to a pair of HP SAS 15 K disks and booted from the disc of Windows 7 HP system recovery.

  The controller immediately recognized Z210 installed the BIOS and I was off and running. Installation of Win 7 completed smoothly and when the machine finally started in a new Win 7 system, everything was fine and my two new hard drives SAS have been properly formatted and correctly recognized. You should be aware that you will need a pair of "bizarre" SATA cables to use these discs 'battleship-quality '. Cables have a conenctor unified at one end to connect the SAS drives, and the other end is a plain old SATA drive connector and a SATA power plug.

  Even if SAS 15 K drives are slightly slower than a disc of 6 GB/S SATA III, the practical speed difference is trivial, these drives have a superior quality construction regular SATA HD, I think.

• MD3420 SAS connection to two servers R720 (2008 R2)

  Hello

  I was looking for some suggestions to my two servers for both see a table of MD3420 in the shared storage.  The idea of the preview is here: http://i.imgur.com/UeWyLvg.jpg

  Initial Setup was very easy.  I installed the Dell MD storage software.  MPIO is installed, as is the Manager of SAN storage.  I have been able to put an IP address for management on the Bay, you connect and create a disk group.    After that, I could see the numbers of identifier for the host two and made port mapping that seemed correct host.  Once I did, I expected the partition not formatted in disk management in Windows.  I don't know where to go from here.   I have updated firmware on the table, which went well.  I looked in the Storage Manager for the without and he sees the LUN (even if it says uknown number.)  Any help is appreciated.

  Additional information:

  OS: Windows 2008 R2 Standard

  Bus adapter: www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9300-8e.aspx

  PowerVault: MD3420 with a single SAS module card

  Thank you!

  I just spoke with Tech Support.  It seems that the problem is that there is no grouping installed between servers.  Unfortunately 2008R2 Standard does not support this, so it seems that we have to upgrade to the enterprise.

  Thanks for your time.

• Dell T620 (Rack) vs 4 x 6 - LTO SAS

  Hello

  no reason not to use a Rackmount T620 with two Dell SAS HBA 6GBit for backup on 4 LTO-6 SAS (Quantum i500) devices?

  for example the bandwidth on a x 8 Lane PCI--> PCIe 2.0 HBA--> 2 x 6 - LTO SAS on one of THEM...

  file server is connected to an Intel 520 FPS + DA cable to an Procurve switch

  BackupServer is connected with an Intel 520 SFP + optical receiver to the same switch

  LSI 9207-8th is also an option but more expensive than labeled dell HBA of LSI (of course it is PCIe 3.0 too ^^)

  or a 3801 LSI SAS HBA... but it's PCIe 1.1 and I don't know if this works with the theoretical maximum speed of 2 x 400MiB/s on LTO-6 devices.

  LSI SAS 9200-8e HBA is PCIe 2.0

  comments are welcome

  Kind regards

  Torsten

  Torsten Hello,

  You can use 2 connectors SAS 6 gb cards in a T620, and work to connect to your quantum i500.  2 maps SAS6gb just needs to be in a crack in x PCIe 8, there are 2 at the T620 & those are 1 & 6 slot.  If these two are full of slot machines, then you should be able to put in one of the X 16 slots & that works as well.  Your x 16 slots are 2,4,5-t, 7on your motherboard.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.