Howdy, I thought I would document this for posterity...
I have an old LSI (later Avago, now Broadcom) MegaRAID 9260-4i SAS RAID controller in my system. There are a few ways to manage it and configure disks and arrays and such. The most straightforward is to boot into it's BIOS. But on Windows there is the MegaRAID storage manager (MSM) which is a much prettier graphical client, but it only easy to set up if the server is running Windows. But it is also possible for a MSM client to manage cards on other server machines. LSI/Avago/Broadcom made a Linux version of MSM, but it only released RPMs for Red Hat and Suse. No .deb packages.
There was mention of making them work in an older forum threads by converting the RPMs, and it was generally regarded as a sketchy idea, but I wanted to give it a shot anyway.
There are walkthroughs floating around the web, but many are old, and all seem to have different approaches . This one (in German) got me pointed in the right direction:
MegaRAID Storage Manager Installation unter Ubuntu – Thomas-Krenn-Wiki
These are the steps that worked for me on a fresh install of OMV 5.3.4 (Debian 10)
Download two files from Broadcom's site, here's the page for the 9260-4i specifically:
Support Documents and Downloads
You'll want to go to the "Management Software and Tools" and get these two files:
(probably everything needs to be done as root user or with sudo)
next I had to install some prerequisite packages
here were the steps to extract and convert and install the command line tool storcli (and create a link because the install location was annoying)
next up is to exract and convert and install MSM, set it to type "d" (which is "server" mode) so it doesn't try to install a local graphical client:
also, the actual service that runs is called vivaldiframeworkd... for reasons I can't fully appreciate.
… after I got that set up, I was able to install MSM on a windows PC and configure my raid card on my OMB Linux box (I had to enter the IP address of my OMV server)
and incidentally, I was inspired by https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/enabling-fastpath-on-9260-8i.25237 to use the command line tools to update the advanced software key on the controller card. however, the storcli syntax is different, so here was they syntax I used (c0 means controller zero):
I have an old LSI (later Avago, now Broadcom) MegaRAID 9260-4i SAS RAID controller in my system. There are a few ways to manage it and configure disks and arrays and such. The most straightforward is to boot into it's BIOS. But on Windows there is the MegaRAID storage manager (MSM) which is a much prettier graphical client, but it only easy to set up if the server is running Windows. But it is also possible for a MSM client to manage cards on other server machines. LSI/Avago/Broadcom made a Linux version of MSM, but it only released RPMs for Red Hat and Suse. No .deb packages.
There was mention of making them work in an older forum threads by converting the RPMs, and it was generally regarded as a sketchy idea, but I wanted to give it a shot anyway.
There are walkthroughs floating around the web, but many are old, and all seem to have different approaches . This one (in German) got me pointed in the right direction:
MegaRAID Storage Manager Installation unter Ubuntu – Thomas-Krenn-Wiki
These are the steps that worked for me on a fresh install of OMV 5.3.4 (Debian 10)
Download two files from Broadcom's site, here's the page for the 9260-4i specifically:
Support Documents and Downloads
Code:
wget https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/raid-controllers/raid-controllers-common-files/1.23.02_StorCLI.zip
wget https://docs.broadcom.com/docs-and-downloads/raid-controllers/raid-controllers-common-files/17.05.00.02_Linux-64_MSM.gz- 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip
- 17.05.00.02_Linux-64_MSM.gz
(probably everything needs to be done as root user or with sudo)
next I had to install some prerequisite packages
Code:apt install unzip install alien
here were the steps to extract and convert and install the command line tool storcli (and create a link because the install location was annoying)
Code:unzip 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip unzip storcli_All_OS.zip cd storcli_All_OS/Linux alien --scripts storcli-1.23.02-1.noarch.rpm dpkg --install storcli_1.23.02-2_all.deb ln -s /opt/MegaRAID/storcli/storcli64 /usr/local/sbin/storcli
next up is to exract and convert and install MSM, set it to type "d" (which is "server" mode) so it doesn't try to install a local graphical client:
also, the actual service that runs is called vivaldiframeworkd... for reasons I can't fully appreciate.
Code:tar xvf 17.05.00.02_Linux-64_MSM.gz cd disk alien --scripts MegaRAID_Storage_Manager-17.05.00-02.noarc export setuptype="d" export upgradesetuptype="n" dpkg --install megaraid-storage-manager_17.05.00-3_all.deb systemctl enable vivaldiframeworkd.service service vivaldiframeworkd start service vivaldiframeworkd status
… after I got that set up, I was able to install MSM on a windows PC and configure my raid card on my OMB Linux box (I had to enter the IP address of my OMV server)
and incidentally, I was inspired by https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/enabling-fastpath-on-9260-8i.25237 to use the command line tools to update the advanced software key on the controller card. however, the storcli syntax is different, so here was they syntax I used (c0 means controller zero):
Code:
storcli /c0 set aso key=TIKGE5K73QX4EH7U5AT91URDQUNL9NXLVTTER72Z