Ml350 G6 on board SATA

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AkLviaLDN

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Hey peeps, are the onboard sata ports hobbled?

Running VMware 6.0 latest update and have a sata HDD and sata ssd connected to them and see terrible write speeds.




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AkLviaLDN

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Are you seeing this in the VM's or just writing to the datastore?
This is writing to the data stores, vmotion also to data stores is also silly slow.


Hmm..

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AkLviaLDN

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And there's me thinking this site has lots of traffic..


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Using latest patched 6 HP ISO.

I've seen that link,doesn't apply in my case I'm afraid. Thanks anyhow.


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It is chipset sata... meant for an optical drive. what drives do you have hooked up? Might only be sata II ports.
 

AkLviaLDN

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Yeah this is ich10 chipset sata ports, how does one see.via the cli negotiated sata speed for device plugged into it.

Currently I have a ssd plugged in and see writes to it max out at 40Mbs which is very slow.

Event sata 1 would be 150 ish.
Maybe it's not even in ahci mode, no settings in bios I can find.

Seems odd to put six sata ports and hobble them for optical only.


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Yeah this is ich10 chipset sata ports, how does one see.via the cli negotiated sata speed for device plugged into it.

Currently I have a ssd plugged in and see writes to it max out at 40Mbs which is very slow.

Event sata 1 would be 150 ish.
Maybe it's not even in ahci mode, no settings in bios I can find.

Seems odd to put six sata ports and hobble them for optical only.
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It should be a 4+2 config 2 for optical 4 for raid.
There should be a legacy and ahci mode for them in the bios.
They are not hobbled... they worked just fine in that era.
What drives are you using?
 

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I've tried a SATA SSD and also spinning rust,

I have tried the first port, which was connected to the ODB CD and also the last

Same speed on both, nothing in bios allows For mode change.

I will double check right now, but I'm sure I've looked.


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One more go.... What drives are you using?

HPE Support document - HPE Support Center
Don't enable raid, but that is where some of the settings are... make sure it's in ahci not legacy (IDE)
Or if you are using raid, disable it and reinstall ... single drive raid is stupid and all you are doing is disabling the write cache on the drives.
 

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Mate, it has a p410i controller and that's a sas controller. That's has a bunch 6 ( 300gb sas drives attached ) those are fine and raided.


It doesn't have no sata raid for the onboard motherboard ports of which there are six. There is no bios option or boot option that mentions the sata port settings.

Once again this is a ML350 G6, your document is for a 100 series...

The SSD connected to the onboard sata port is a crucial mx300 of 525mb.




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Mate, it has a p410i controller and that's a sas controller. That's has a bunch 6 ( 300gb sas drives attached ) those are fine and raided.

It doesn't have no sata raid for the onboard motherboard ports of which there are six. There is no bios option or boot option that mentions the sata port settings.

Once again this is a ML350 G6, your document is for a 100 series...

The SSD connected to the onboard sata port is a crucial mx300 of 525mb.

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Document covers both if you read it, but evidently the 350 doesn't have it as an option. It has been awhile since I worked on something so ancient.
Ahci mode is enabled by default.
Sorry for trying to help, I will stop now.
 

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Thanks for your input, it's driving me nuts.

I'll try a window install bare metal and see if I still get slow speeds.

Might be a VMware quirk.

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Thanks for your input, it's driving me nuts.

I'll try a window install bare metal and see if I still get slow speeds.

Might be a VMware quirk.

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It probably is a Vmware quirk, you can always throw a H220 in LSI 9205-8i to give non-chipset. ICH10 should cap at 600MB/s not 40.
 

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Thanks for your input, it's driving me nuts.

I'll try a window install bare metal and see if I still get slow speeds.

Might be a VMware quirk.

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Hello!
I have the same problem with the integrated Intel ICH10 SATA Controller on the ProLiant ml350 g6. The controller works in IDE mode no matter what I do. There is no setting in BIOS to change the mode to AHCI.

Have you solved this problem?