I seem to be having an intermittent problem (potentially related to an update although I cant figure out which one) with my recently purchased LSI 9211-8i. The card came pre-flashed into IT mode and after installing it in my ESXi 6.5 server and passing it through to my NAS install (I use RockStor which is CentOS 6 IIRC), it worked fine....
I perform normal update cycles of at least monthly and while the last one I did was about that time ago, because there was no reboot, apparently nothing was impacted. Fast forward to now and after another weird issue that caused me to need to reboot the entire ESXi host, the drives in my NAS show as 'detached' in the UI.
I looked at lsblk output and sure, enough, my drives are not there. Then I perused through dmesg and found the following:
Soooo oddly enough it seems to detect that there are attached devices (I assume thats what the "sd 3:.....: Attached..." indicates) but at the same time due to the full on scsi driver failure for the passed through 9211 card it doesn't make them available.
I am going to try and do a snapshot reversal to see what I get but any thoughts on this error?
UPDATE: Snapshot reversal didn't help. This happened once before and it ended up fixing itself somehow....is it something on the ESXi side?
I perform normal update cycles of at least monthly and while the last one I did was about that time ago, because there was no reboot, apparently nothing was impacted. Fast forward to now and after another weird issue that caused me to need to reboot the entire ESXi host, the drives in my NAS show as 'detached' in the UI.
I looked at lsblk output and sure, enough, my drives are not there. Then I perused through dmesg and found the following:
Code:
mpt2sas_cm0: failure at drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c:8937/_scsih_probe()!
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sd 3:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 3:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 3:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 3:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
sd 3:0:5:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
I am going to try and do a snapshot reversal to see what I get but any thoughts on this error?
UPDATE: Snapshot reversal didn't help. This happened once before and it ended up fixing itself somehow....is it something on the ESXi side?
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