Hello,
Context
I want to use a refurbished server to run a few VMs and a build secondary NAS as backup target using a XPenology VM.
I'm focusing on maximum available disk spaces for backup and some performance/safety for VMs.
This is home equipment for personal use.
I'm missing a few proper screenshots (was lazy at first and took quick shots for personal notes).
I already have some and will update based on the feedback I'd be able to receive here.
Background
I've found an IBM x3650 M3 with a ServeRAID M5014 controller (and what looks like a dead BBU).
The server only had 2*147 SAS drives.
Since then, I've purchased online (mostly eBay) a few parts to upgrade from 8 to 16 drives with RAID 6 support :
Waiting for the missing cable, I've anyway already installed the SAS expander but am limited to bays 0-7.
Some history, on first boot ever I had (for ServeRAID):
Capacity upgrade
A few weeks later, I've came across "Seagate Internal White Label Hard Drive 2.5".
These are recertified SATA drives flashed with basic firmware and a lot of stuff showing "000000"s.
The two I got are 5TB 2.5" SATA drives selling at 110€ each.
Setting up things
Once I got the 2 * 5TB drives, I wanted to put them in RAID 0. I've kept only 2*147GB during this. A few surprises :
I came across this page : https://www.servethehome.com/flash-ibm-serveraid-m5014-lsi-92608i-firmware/
That was looking like the way to go, but this link is dead : http://forums.servethehome.com/show...oject-Supermicro-IPMI-2-0-BIOS-Update-Live-CD
Please updated to point to : https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-supermicro-ipmi-2-0-bios-update-live-cd.851/
Anyway, after a few trials with FreeDOS, Plop and the likes, I ended up using a single 600GB drive to install Windows 2016 and have a full featured Avago MegaRAID STorage Manager 17.05.01.02.
I've for now postponed crossflashing to LSI.
After searching a lot of obsolete or dead links, I've flashed the controller to IBM Firmware 2.130.403-6211 29 March 2016 // Package version 12.15.0-0248.
Residual issues
I'm still limited to 8 bays due to a missing cable, waiting to receive the parcel.
I can't connect at the same time the 5TB drives, they will however both work when plugged once at a time.
Just like here, the iButton I purchased for RAID 6 raises a "Incompatible secondary iButton present!". https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...ey-firmware-and-sed-troubles.3661/#post-33497
Priorities
Note : I did some server stuff years ago but moved to application layers quite a long time ago. Spoiler : n00b alert when dealing with FW flashing and the likes!
Cheers,
Rudy
Context
I want to use a refurbished server to run a few VMs and a build secondary NAS as backup target using a XPenology VM.
I'm focusing on maximum available disk spaces for backup and some performance/safety for VMs.
This is home equipment for personal use.
I'm missing a few proper screenshots (was lazy at first and took quick shots for personal notes).
I already have some and will update based on the feedback I'd be able to receive here.
Background
I've found an IBM x3650 M3 with a ServeRAID M5014 controller (and what looks like a dead BBU).
The server only had 2*147 SAS drives.
Since then, I've purchased online (mostly eBay) a few parts to upgrade from 8 to 16 drives with RAID 6 support :
- A lot of 20*600GB 10K SAS drives : I've been able to setup 2*147 + 6*600 for testing
- IBM 46M0997 ServeRAID Expansion Adapter 16-Port SAS Expander
- IBM 69Y0650 HD Backplane 2.5-inch SFF 8B for X3400 X3500 X3650 M3 w/ Cables (its actually missing long cables to controller once mounted as PCIe card in PCIe raiser, I'm missing one, so limited to 8 currently)
- 14 * 2.5" Drive Caddy Tray
- 46M0930/46M0931 IBM M5014 M5015 ServeRAID M5000 Advanced RAID 6, 60 Key
Waiting for the missing cable, I've anyway already installed the SAS expander but am limited to bays 0-7.
Some history, on first boot ever I had (for ServeRAID):
- Firmware Version 2.0.13-0748
- FW Package Version 12.0.1-0090
- Firmware Time : Nov 6 2009;15:11:33
Capacity upgrade
A few weeks later, I've came across "Seagate Internal White Label Hard Drive 2.5".
These are recertified SATA drives flashed with basic firmware and a lot of stuff showing "000000"s.
The two I got are 5TB 2.5" SATA drives selling at 110€ each.
Setting up things
Once I got the 2 * 5TB drives, I wanted to put them in RAID 0. I've kept only 2*147GB during this. A few surprises :
- One drive only was visible
- The controller reported a drive size of 1.999TB
I came across this page : https://www.servethehome.com/flash-ibm-serveraid-m5014-lsi-92608i-firmware/
That was looking like the way to go, but this link is dead : http://forums.servethehome.com/show...oject-Supermicro-IPMI-2-0-BIOS-Update-Live-CD
Please updated to point to : https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-supermicro-ipmi-2-0-bios-update-live-cd.851/
Anyway, after a few trials with FreeDOS, Plop and the likes, I ended up using a single 600GB drive to install Windows 2016 and have a full featured Avago MegaRAID STorage Manager 17.05.01.02.
I've for now postponed crossflashing to LSI.
After searching a lot of obsolete or dead links, I've flashed the controller to IBM Firmware 2.130.403-6211 29 March 2016 // Package version 12.15.0-0248.
Residual issues
I'm still limited to 8 bays due to a missing cable, waiting to receive the parcel.
I can't connect at the same time the 5TB drives, they will however both work when plugged once at a time.
Just like here, the iButton I purchased for RAID 6 raises a "Incompatible secondary iButton present!". https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...ey-firmware-and-sed-troubles.3661/#post-33497
Priorities
- Be able to setup a RAID 0 using the two 5TB drives. At some point I'd like to go to 4*5TB in RAID 5 (keeping data in the process won't be important). I'm not sure if this is FW related or disk related due to their generic nature. I was able to setup 2*640GB SATA drives some weeks ago.
- Be able to use RAID 6 : 16 bays - 4 bays for 4*5TB : 12*600GB SAS with 2 disks redundancy
- Cross flashing to LSI if this helps
Note : I did some server stuff years ago but moved to application layers quite a long time ago. Spoiler : n00b alert when dealing with FW flashing and the likes!
Cheers,
Rudy
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