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LSI is a manufacturer of enterprise storage and networking components.

LSI is a manufacturer of enterprise storage and networking components.

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Unexpected LSI SAS 9211-8i RAID x8 SSD Performance

After attaching 8 850 EVO SSD to my LSI 9211-8i and creating a Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces 8 column virtual disk I copied a VHD from and to the virtual disk and observed ~300 MB/s transfer rate. I was expecting much higher. Given that each…
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HP ProLiant SE326M1 not booting from LSI SAS 9211-8i

I have taken out the old RAID card in my HP ProLiant SE326M1 server and replaced it with the LSI SAS 9211-8i HBA. I then installed Nexenta community edition onto three of the drives that are attached to the LSI card. I have set the boot device to…
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zfs error behind LSI raidcontroller

So ZFS is reporting some "read issues", so it would seem that this disk is failing, based on the fact nothing given in the ZFS-8000-9P document reports has occurred we are aware of. These disks are fairly new, the only issue we had recently was a…
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Solaris - all drives connected to LSI HBA's has same device id

I have deployed several Solaris/ZFS based storage servers but this particular one "Alacritech AIC ANX-1500" is behaving weird. The server has 24 2.5" bays all populated with SSDS. The backplane is connected to 3 x LSI 9211-8i HBA with IT firmware.…
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Does the LSI 9211-8i add any data structures of its own when used in pure HBA (JBOD) mode?

I'm looking at adding some disks to one of my systems, for which I need to add an offboard HBA. Looking around, I came across the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9211-8i (LSI part number LSI00194) which looks quite interesting. LSI also seem to be popular in…
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How can I reduce LSI raid array without data loss

I have a server with 8x SAS drives attached to hardware LSI RAID controller (MegaCli64) and all 8 drives are configured as single RAID 10 array. I now want to remove 2 drives and replace them with bigger drives. Result should be one RAID 10 array…
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LSI MegaRAID - Recreate missing RAID 1 array

I have an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i Controller with two drives attached to it with a simple RAID1 array (virtual drive). One of the disks failed (complete disappeared from the system) so I asked the datacenter to replace the failed drive. After they…
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Why is my RAID1 or RAID10 virtual drive (6 SSDs) not significantly faster than a single SSD?

I'm trying to figure out why the performance of a Virtual drive built from 12 SSDs is not really faster than a single SSD drive. The Server is a IBM x3650 M4, two Xeon E5-2643v2 130W 6C 3,5GHz. The integrated RAID Controller ServerRAID M5110e has a…
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SNMP agent for LSI MegaRAID does not display updated Temperatures

I have an ASUS PIKE 2208 ( this is LSI SAS2208 ROC ) configured and working with four physical drives. Additionally I have installed the LSI SNMP agent. The agent provides all the data defined by the LSI-MegaRAID-SAS-MIB. However, I've noticed that…
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SuperMicro 119-7 - Install Problems 'no device driver found'

I have a set of servers that had Debian installed, and need to have Windows Server 2012 R2. Supermicro 119-7 / 10274-WRFT+ MegaRAID SAS 9266-8i Mount R2 in a flash drive, boot from it in UEFI mode Error: no device drivers found. Mount latest…
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LSI Raid 5 with 2 disks "not synced"

I have a system with a LSI 1064e SAS raid. The system is not booting, and when I enter the raid configuration utility, It says, that has 2 disc "Not synced". I didn't find the option to resync them, also I don't know if it is possible. If the disk…
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How to change SAS address on Expander

I have the following setup - two supermicro backplane attached to one controller LSI SAS 9207-4i4e and unfortunately cannot access the disks, during boot there are disks only in one backplane, the disks from the second are missing, but when I boot…
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LSI SMC2108 hardware to HBA

I have SMC2108 (LSI controller) hardware controller, which I want to replace with LSI SAS 9207-4i4e (it's HBA - fakeraid). Can I switch the controllers and to access my data (even with readonly). I know that SMC2108 keeps the metadata in the DDF…
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Move raid10 from LSI 9750-8i to 3ware 9650SE-8LPML

This is a little risky task I want to try. I have a 4 SATA III disks RAID10 array running on LSI (former 3ware) 9750-8i controller with BBU (read and write cache enabled). In case of hardware failure I would like to move the array to older 3ware…
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Correct VHDX sector size in Hyper-V enviroment for a RAID array

What is the correct sector size (which available in Powershell as options, when creating a new vhdx) for RAID10 array with default stripe size? I am using LSI 9271-4i controller and 4x Seagate ST3300657SS in Hyper-V 2012 R2 enviroment.
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