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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 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.

• 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.

• 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

• LSI Logic LSI SAS vs parallel?

  What is the difference between these two SCSI controllers available for VMS?

  Should be chosen according to the what is the real underlying disk system (if there is real or not SAS disks) or has to do with the guest operating system?

  Are there differences in performance between them?

  no gain.  SAS controller is required for MSCS 2008 and will be available only if vHardware is 7, but it's really the only time wherever you will use it.  LSI Logic P is the controller of choice

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• SAS HBA or Raid for R905 for external storage?

  So I got a R905 used off ebay.  I wanted to use it for a storage server.  Unfortunately, the LSI SAS HBA or the Areca 1883 work in one of the 7 pci-e slots.  The cards are seen and their bios are launched and start automatic and other tests.  Two of them crash during initialization (it is not a matter of waiting a few minutes - in a trial, let him so all day while I was out).  I know that the slots are not dead, like the map 4-port gbe enet provided with it works great, just like a connection-x 2 infiniband card.  I confirmed that the bios and bmc firmware are the latest and best.  It's a kind of dell 'we do support the controllers dell' thing?  If so, I guess I agree with the purchase of a dell SAS HBA connector sff-8088 with random (since that's what jbod I want to connect using...)  Any thoughts appreciated...

  Hello.

  No Dell non-certified controllers are not validated to work properly on Dell servers. But this does not mean that may not work, it's a 50-50 chance. I recommend using certified Dell SAS HBA card such as: manufacturer: 7RJDT | Dell reference: 342-0910. Not so sure on the type of connector

• 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.

• Buy list HCL SATA or SAS SSD?  Why the consumer grade SATA SSD are meaningless.

  Hello

  I run a node 4 VSAN 6 Cluster with a LSI SAS in Raid-0 Mode controller listed HCL (a 975 queue depth) to which I currently attached: 3 x 10 k SAS Enterprise RPM hard drives and 1 x Samsung 850 SATA Pro 512 GB SSD. The nodes are the same.

  These SSD is due to budgetary constraints. I too put in service the SSD 512 GB to 400 GB and they seem to controllers and BIOS as 400GO devices.

  Performance is horrible. Overall, VM feel morose.

  When you make a copy of a file of DVD ISO file (say 3GB) on one virtual computer to another, I get extremely high 100 MS to 300ms or even higher disk latencies on both virtual machines. When a regeneration occurs because I take a node in Maint.mode with 'full datamigration', or I re - apply a strategy of backup to say "band bandwidth 2" to "stripe-width 3", the whole cluster crushed essentially to a halt. " VM has become so slow and on Linux VM I get same kernel-messages on scsi timeouts, etc. None of the work of the virtual machine, they freeze and basically die because "the disc is extremely unresponsive.

  I'm not alone in this. I have read many similar stories on the net and it often comes down to the 'consumer grade SATA SSD' who these Samsungs are after all.

  I guess I have the same problem.

  My question is this: I have the right to replace the Samsung 850 Pro with either a SAS disk SSD Sandisk which is listed HCL * or * using Intel DC S3700 SATA SSD that are also in the HCL currently for 6 VSAN.

  What I don't understand is: ' if the SATA SSD that I use currently, form a bottleneck due to the depth of the SATA Interface of 32 queue, how can we * all * SATA SSD be on the HCL at all?

  I doubt that these Intel DC S3700 are much faster than the Samsung 850 Pro and they are two SATA drives and they both have a personal 32 queuedepth and all the interface SATA has a 32 port queuedepth pro. So how can disks SATA works in a system of VSAN. I just makes no sense.

  Everyone is to fight to death on "queue-depth queue depth queue depth. Cormac Hogan, Duncan Epping, everyone who is an authority on VSAN. A queue-depth too low controllers were thrown out of the HCL etc etc etc

  When I look at the SSD Intel S3700 HCL wrote:

  Mandatory features:

  Drive performance, disc reliability, queue depth, SMART SATA Surprise Power Removal, trim attributes / Unmap, Cache write, write the NDR

  It says "tail-depth" as one of the requirements that responds to this SDS. But SATA, by definition, has a maximum queue-depth 32 which is much too small. So, how can it meet "tail-depth"? It is SATA!

  The Intel DC S3700 would cost me about half of the money the SAS SSD Sandisk and of course, if Intel is going to solve my problems of performance, then I'll take those. But if I'm just as much trouble afterwards because of the queue depth of the SATA Interface of 32, then I better invest in the SAS SSD (but which could exhaust my budget for other things so I'd rather not).

  Anyone can shed some light on this?

  (edit: I changed the title to better reflect my findings)

  Update: I bit the bullit, obtained a second mortgage, said my child may not be able to go to College and I bought the SAS SSD (Sandisk 200 GB 6 G SAS). In each of the four nodes, I did a complete data migration, replaced the Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSD with the SSD SAS and macaroni holy, all my problems disappeared.

  The whole system feels much more receptive and do things like clone a virtual machine (which would grind the whole cluster to stop) never stops working like nothing happens.

  Before, when I did a simple copy of an ISO to a virtual computer DVD file to another, I would like to get, maybe, 20 MB/s and the entire cluster has started feeling lethargic until the copy job is completed. Now, I get speeds ranging from 80 to 90 MB/s and so bright and responsive.

  What a difference!

  I'm a very happy man.

  Moreover, my network is a 1 Gbps where each node has two NIC in a LACP LAG and I can clearly see a node to talk to another network node 1 NIC and talk to another node on the other card NETWORK LACP nicely splits the traffic on the two cards.

  The system feels so fast now and reconstructions / present a new application of storage policies is difficult to have an impact, and generally occur much more quickly than before.

  And really, the only thing I did was swap the Samsung 850 Pro SATA SSD with these SAS SSD.

  Lesson learned: either pay the money of the SAS SSD (which are on the HCL, of course) who is the best, or get certified company VSAN grade SATA SSD but STAY AWAY to consumers rank of SATA SSD because they do not have what it takes. They cannot empty their queues fast enough and all clutter as soon as there is a bit of the system load.

  Just don't do it. Forget the consumer SATA rank. It's like throwing money down the toilet. I've been there and I learned the hard way. Let me be the stubborn donkey, so you don't ;-)