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Found this regarding the raid card. Pictures are small, but they show the before and after of the installation. " 4. Align the RAID Controller card with the contact-PCIe pins and screw holes."...

I added: ENCS54_BIOS_2.6.SPA ENCS54_BIOS_3.06.SPA To the place where we shared files with each other before. If you need to get into the bios after upgrading to the latest bios here are the steps that let me in: 1. Flashed (via cmic + tftp) the ENCS54_BIOS_2.6.SPA after installing NFVIS...

I haven't been able to find any cisco "ISP" raid cards though. Does anyone have a cisco rep contact they could ask more info regarding this module?

If you read further down on this page it mentions a possible raid card: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/nfvis/install/encs-hig/CSX-HIG_chapter_01.html RAID Card: The RAID card improves the performance of the hard drive. The RAID card is installed in the Internal Service Processor...

BTW, do any of you guys know about the internal port on these? I'm interested in putting a raid card inside it if it's available to buy relatively cheap on somewhere like eBay. A card with mini sas would be ideal. Cisco 5400 Enterprise Network Compute System Hardware Installation Guide -...

Yeah, I gave up on NFVIS about 15 minutes after using the latest version. It still feels like a hand full of people created it in their garage over a couple weekends while intoxicated. Not saying I could develop something better myself, it just doesn't feel "enterprise". I've been using ESXi...

I bought 6 of these encs units, and I have some that are very quiet and some that are noisy. After switching internal fans around, I found that it's not the internal fans that produce a loud noise. For me, on the noisy units, it's the fan of the power supply. I took one of the psus apart and the...

How I reset mine was a little different: I hooked up a local console to the encs (using the vga port -> monitor + usb keyboard) then booted up. At the boot screen I pressed F8 to edit the cimc configuration. The only password required to get there is the bios password which I had because I set...

Thanks I got it, had to reset CIMC to defaults before I was able to get in.

@turbo how did you manage install esxi 8? I flashed the esxi 8 iso onto a 2.5 inch ssd then powered up and pressed f6 during boot (with a local keyboard and display plugged in) and selected the 2.5 inch drive to boot off of it. Tried a bunch of different ways to create the image, but all hang...

I bought a total of 6 Cisco ENCS from the ebay seller. Some of them are really quiet and can be kept in a office no problem, and some of them have fan whine like the fan(s) are dying. All expected since it is used hardware. Of the total, 5 of them are V03, and 1 is V02. The V02 is the quietest...

I can help you get into it if you want, PM me if you want me to show you. I'm on Telegram and Discord, either works for me. The version of NFVIS that's on there is really not worth running tbh (unless you were lucky enough to get a later version). Mine came with the very first version of the...

For those interested for the one I was able to get into, it is running NFVIS Version: 4.1.1-FC1 which is from March 2020: https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286308693/type/286309317/release/4.1.1

I'm in, was able to disable the grub password by doing the following: sudo su - mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot mv /mnt/boot/grub2/user.cfg /mnt/boot/grub2/user.cfg.orig The password is hashed in that user.cfg file in /boot/grub2/user.cfg. Quick google search said to just rename it...

So I was able to write a CentOS 7 live iso (using balenaEtcher) to a 2.5 inch ssd I had laying around using a usb to sata adapter. Since I don't have a caddy, I took the top cover off and aligned the drive with the sata port until it went in. It booted up without any issue. Did ctrl+alt+f1 to...

@ultrabay ok so you just flashed a bootable image to a 2.5inch drive and booted off that. I guess that would be easier than trying to PXE. I don't have the caddies but I could probably finagle it in there.

yeah I've already accessed the bios

@ultrabay what is yours running now? esxi? how did you install something other than nfvis? I just got them so I haven't had the chance to search for any setup docs

Going to try to PXE boot knoppix or some other live linux iso to mount and clear the grub password once I figure out which interface it uses for PXE.

That's good to know, the ones I have do contain some version of NFVIS but I'm unable to login to them as I don't know the password and haven't found any password reset documentation yet. Was going to do rd.break and reset the root password since it's running CentOS 7, but I can't edit the...