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[DRAGONKZ]

All UCS servers can run in HBA/IT mode without flashing. It’s an option in CIMC.

Have a 240 M4 LFF with FreeNAS on a pool of disks in HBA mode. No issues.

The 9266 and 9271 Cisco branded LSI controllers in the M3 generation can only do RAID mode.

M4 onwards can do JBOD.

 

[BLinux]

Full lspci attached.

The RAID

0d:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] [1000:005d] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Cisco Systems Inc MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] [1137:00db]
        Physical Slot: 0-2
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 37, NUMA node 0
        I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
        Memory at c7500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Memory at c7400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
        Expansion ROM at c7300000 [disabled] [size=1M]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [a8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
        Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=97 Masked-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [1e0] #19
        Capabilities: [1c0] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [148] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
        Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas
        Kernel modules: megaraid_sas

Thanks! So you have a LSI SAS3108? Yeah, I think that can do HBA mode, and that perfectly answers my question, as you can see at the bottom line, that is using the megaraid_sas driver and not the mpt3sas or other driver. That's exactly what I wanted to know. From my experience, if it is using the megaraid_sas driver, one issue you will have (compared to proper IT mode firmware) is that the /dev/sgX devices don't show up, so you can't run sg_format on the HDDs in the megaraid "HBA" mode. At least, I had that problem with Dell H330 with megaraid firmware and using the megaraid_sas driver. Once I moved to a proper IT mode firmware card, I could access the /dev/sgX devices.

Now, LSI SAS3108 probably means that machine is NOT the M3, right? I think the M3 generation of machines only had SAS2008 or SAS2208, no?

 

[oddball]

Thanks! So you have a LSI SAS3108? Yeah, I think that can do HBA mode, and that perfectly answers my question, as you can see at the bottom line, that is using the megaraid_sas driver and not the mpt3sas or other driver. That's exactly what I wanted to know. From my experience, if it is using the megaraid_sas driver, one issue you will have (compared to proper IT mode firmware) is that the /dev/sgX devices don't show up, so you can't run sg_format on the HDDs in the megaraid "HBA" mode. At least, I had that problem with Dell H330 with megaraid firmware and using the megaraid_sas driver. Once I moved to a proper IT mode firmware card, I could access the /dev/sgX devices.

Now, LSI SAS3108 probably means that machine is NOT the M3, right? I think the M3 generation of machines only had SAS2008 or SAS2208, no?

I have a 220 m3, 240 m3 that have this RAID controller. I also have a number of m4 UCS machines with the MegaRAID 12g controller. I sent the output from the MegaRaid one because I have Linux on one of those machines. The rest have Windows, or a hypervisor.

 

[klammore]

No matter what version of java I use i get the following error. This is after whitelisting the IPs and loading the cert.

CIMC Firmware: 3.0(4j)

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: https://10.10.0.101:443/software/avctNuova.jar
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.downloadResource(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Attached is the HBA info, windows is currently on this device so let me know what driver/device properties you'd like to know.

Looks like it's utilizing the MegaRaid firmware as Smart info isn't being passed to the host OS.

 

[oddball]

Cisco forums have a fix. Need to downgrade to a specific version of Java.

From 3.1 onwards if the firmware of the machine is 3.1+ the KVM is html5. All of my m3 stuff is still Java, so maybe it doesn't support html5.

Solved: Launch KVM Console: Unable to launch th... - Cisco Community

 

[klammore]

Yeah, I've tried the following versions, thanks to different forum posts saying they work:

EDIT: Just a major issue on one of my workstations with Java.