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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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LSI 3042 supported with Oracle VM Server

Trying to install an HP DL165 1U server with an LSI 3042 SAS card. I get to the install, selected a language, select a keyboard screens then it asks me for a location for the driver (it doesn't tell me when one though but since it asks immediately…
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Why is the 9650SE RAID1 not showing the full size of the disks?

This is a follow-on to How can I grow a 3Ware 9650SE RAID1 under ESXi 5.0? I've successively replaced 1TB drives in my RAID1 with 2TB drives hoping that I can grow the datastore I've got in ESXi 5.0. After replacing the drives, and letting the…
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No drives showing on LSI 2008 SAS + HP SAS Expander

Followin this guide http://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x8si6-f-motherboard-review-including-onboard-lsi-sas-2008-controller/ I got myself an RPC 4224 case (They are called Inter-Tech in Europe, but are the same) and an Supermicro X8SI6-F with…
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How do I banish desktop alerts on an LSI MegaRAID-equipped Win 2008 installation?

A bit of background - recently we've been upgrading Win2003 systems to Win2008, and all of these servers have an LSI RAID controller card installed. The previous system image had popup and email alerts disabled in the MRMonitor config, but someone…
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LSI SAS 1064E drivers for Server 2012

I have a need to place Windows Server 2012 onto a Sunfire X4100 blade server that contains a LSI SAS 1064e RAID controller (2006). The LSI site only has drivers up to server 2008 R2. I did attempt to install server 2012 hoping it might contain…
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Possible bad raid card / hard disks (LSI 9261-8i)

I am in a bit of bad spot at the moment, i have a dedicated server hosted by someone else, it has a LSI 9261-8i raid card installed, attached is: 3x300GB SAS 15K rpm disks (in RAID5) 5x2TB SATA disks now the only way i could get my system to…
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How many RAIDs per RAID controller

I am going to build a SQL server and I need to have four independent RAID 10s. I am looking at different RAID controllers to choose from. For instance I am looking at LSI 9260-8I but I cannot figure out how many RAIDs this controller supports. Is…
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LSI Storage Manger for Windows PERC H700 Controller

I have a PERC H700 controller from Dell which appears to be a re-badged LSI 9260-16i raid card. I looked in the download link from LSI, but it only has the MegaRaid Storage Manager for Linux. MegaCLI for Windows is provided but I prefer a GUI. I…
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MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP

I'm just wondering whether anyone knows if I can use a Debian distro with the MegaRAID SAS 8208XLP controller. Currently at the moment LSI only supply drivers/support for RHEL/CentOS but I was wondering if anybody knew if there were other drivers so…
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Monitor LSI 1068e RAID1 mirror status on Windows server?

Assuming that a client has an existing Windows 2008 server with a hardware RAID1 mirror built on an LSI 1068e SAS controller, what is a non-interactive way to monitor the array's status such that an alert could be generated if it entered a degraded…
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MegaCLI always returns blank output

This server is a Dell R200 running Ubuntu 8.04LTS using a LSI SAS1068E raid card supplied from Dell, I suspect that there might be some kind of RAID issue with the hardware raid built into the motherboard, but I can't seem to get MegaCLi to return…
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Will RAID 00 give a performance increase over RAID 0?

According to this IBM page, RAID level-x0 allows more physical drives in an array. The benefits of doing so are larger logical drives, increased performance, and increased reliability. So say, instead of having a single RAID 0 array with four…
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Is it safe to flash LSI MegaRAID firmware from within MSM on a 'live' system?

When does the firmware actually get reflashed? Next time the server is restarted? I don't want to interrupt services but I'd love to get the latest update out of the way. (It fixes read/writes for small blocks).. good for MSSQL. This is a LSI…
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Avago 3108: rebuild degraded hardware RAID5?

Supermicro TwinPro chassis with dual SYS-1029TP-DC1R server modules, each with Supermicro X11DPT-PS motherboard and Avago 3108 RAID card. OS: VMware ESXi 6.7. Problem: can't figure out how rebuild an existing RAID5 array after a "failed" drive was…
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So...an LSI SAS9211-8I, ARECA AR-1882IX-12 and some 12TB Hitachis walk into a bar

By the title of this I hope it's obvious that I'm trying to console myself with humor after the idiotic mistake I made last night. And I'm hoping that someone out might be able to verify a few things before I really DO in-fact lose over 100TB of…