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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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IBM System x3500 M3 refuses to boot from LSI SAS card if blank SATA drive is connected on mainboard

Have an IBM System x3500 M3 that refuses to boot from the IBM branded LSI SAS card if any SATA drive is also connected to the mainboard. The system restarts itself over and over. No error messages. Just sits there with a blinking cursor until it…
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MegaRaid Storage Manager Version to manage LSI 9260-8I through vSphere 4.1?

When I ran vSphere 4.0 I could use MSM 6.05 to manage my LSI card through the CIM provider, it would show up as a server to connect to. Since upgrading to vSphere 4.1 I my vSphere host does not show up to manage, so I upgraded MSM to the latest 8.x…
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Hard drives continuously failing in Fujitsu RX300 server

We look after a Fujitsu RX300 S4 server that has 6 x 500GB SATA drives in a RAID-6 array, running from an LSI MegaRAID card (built into the motherboard). A couple of weeks ago, one hard drive flagged itself as being faulty (orange light on the…
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LSI1068E hidden drives after failed raid volume creation

We are using LSI 1068E raid chipset with SAS drives. We had added new drives to the system, and tried to create new raid volume with the lsiutil, unfortunately the creation failed. The problem is that now we do not have the new raid volume and…
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LSI MegaRAID SAS 3108: Restoring the online state from Foreign Bad (Frn-Bad) state

We have a Virtual Disk in RAID 5 using only 5 disks, one disk probably is broken because it was in an alert before. Another disk was accidentally pulled out and then it was marked as Frn-Bad when it was put back in the same slot. So, the 2 disks are…
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Enlarging RAID1 virtual drive online on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i without downtime?

I recently went out to a customer location and replaced + rebuilt a RAID1 drive group on their Lenovo TS440 server, going from 2 TB drives to 4 TB drives. Question is - what's the best way to enlarge the virtual drive group? It's stuck at 2 TB and I…
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perccli: How to check the pdcache status for a virtual drive?

The perccli utility (doc page) has an option to set the "pdcache" option, where pdcache means physical drive cache (although I can't find where that's actually defined). From the docs, the syntax is: perccli /cx/vx set…
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Storcli64 not rebuilding replaced disk

One of the drives in our LSI-based RAID failed (Avago 3108 MegaRaid). We pulled the drive and replaced it with a similar disk (cap/speed). Autorebuild is enabled, however the status of the disk (128:7) shows it's state is JBOD instead of Onln, so it…
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Can Windows Server 2022 read passed through SAS drives in a JBOD configuration?

I recently bought a simple RAID controller card (LSI-9210-8i), and flashed it to IT mode. I also bought a single SAS drive of 3TB. I formatted the drive in the LSI Card's BIOS, and have checked the drive in MEGARAID, and it is reading as…
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LSI Storage Authority (Windows) losing registered ESXI after reboot

I have an issue with the RAID Monitoring Software LSA for Windows (LSI Storage Authority). I can add an ESXI manually and manage/monitor the RAID controller fine, but as soon as im rebooting the server or restart the LSA service, the ESXI server is…
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ESXi does not show drives for second RAID controller with NVMe drives

I got a second RAID controller (AVAGO 9440-8i) to put in my Dell T440 server (first RAID controller is a H740P). I got the Broadcom U.2 enabler cable and two WD Gold 2TB drives. I've updated ESXi, the lsi_mr3 package, the whole original Dell-system…
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What's the safest way to swap an SSD (RAID 10)?

I have machines (4x 2 TB SSDs, Hardware RAID 10 via LSI 9265-8i cards) and occasionally need to swap an SSD - for example if it fails. I'm curious to hear what people consider to be the safest approach in swapping failed drives whilst a server is…
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how to set automatic tests with smartd for Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 controller

I have a server that I want to set up automatic tests with smartd for hdd. From what I see this is my controller 81:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) #ls -al /sys/block/sd* |…
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how to get disks on a PERC H310 visible again

My setup : small home server with Asrock H67M-ITX, CPU : i3-2120T, PERC H310 RAID with 7 disks all passthrough (I use MDADM for the raid functionality). The system (Ubuntu 20.04) is on a SSD connected to the MB SATA. Just got a new CPU : E3-1275…
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LSI HostRAID 2008 - Can't Create RAID 10 With More Than 10 Drives

I've got a Quanta Stratos server with an LSI HostRaid 2008 controller. I've got 24 SAS drives in it. No matter what I do I cannot get configure RAID 10 across all 24 drives. I've no experience with LSI controllers, I've only ever used PERC and I've…
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