Hi All,
I was using H710P DELL RAID controller(VSAN disks was in RAID 0) and just replaced the H710P with LSI 9207-8i HBA cards.After replacing the HBA LSI card,automatically all the VSAN disks detected under new "LSI 9207-8i HBA card". We haven't deleted and re-created the disk groups as it was automatically fetched.
Earlier RAID 0 configuration was SSD-->No read ahead,write through,disabled disk write cache.
Pass through will be enabled by default under LSI 9207-8i HBA card ? or do i need to do anything from BIOS setting?
When im trying to see the controller summary using the below storcli command,it shows "no of controllers=0" but the controller is listed in ESXi server/VC.(I see all the current disks under this new LSI HBA cards).
And tried sas3flash utility as well.
My ESXi version is 6.7.0 U1.
Device Name: vmhba1
Device Display Name: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI2308_2
Used By VSAN: true
PCI ID: 1000/0087/1000/3020
Driver Name: lsi_msgpt2
Driver Version: 20.00.04.00-5vmw.670.1.28.10302608
Max Supported Queue Depth: 10104
Firmware Version: N/A
[root@hv-01:/tmp] esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/VMwareOP_Certified/vmware-storcli.vib --no-sig-check
Installation Result
Message: Operation finished successfully.
Reboot Required: false
VIBs Installed: LSI_bootbank_vmware-storcli_007.0916.0000.0000-01
VIBs Removed:
VIBs Skipped:
[root@hv-01:/tmp] cd /opt/lsi/storcli/
[root@g3-sf10-314-hv-01:/opt/lsi/storcli] ./storcli show
CLI Version = 007.0916.0000.0000 Apr 05, 2019
Operating system = VMkernel 6.7.0
Status Code = 0
Status = Success
Description = None
Number of Controllers = 0
Host Name = hv-01
Operating System = VMkernel 6.7.0
StoreLib IT Version = 07.0906.0200.0000
StoreLib IR3 Version = 16.05-0
Tried with sas3flash as well,
hv-01:/opt/lsi/bin] ./sas3flash -listall
Avago Technologies SAS3 Flash Utility
Version 16.00.00.00 (2017.05.02)
Copyright 2008-2017 Avago Technologies. All rights reserved.
No Avago SAS adapters found! Limited Command Set Available!
ERROR: Command Not allowed without an adapter!
ERROR: Couldn't Create Command -listall
Exiting Program.
Could you please advice what i need to do here?
Thanks,
Manivel R
Some one might be confused after reading the above one.My apologies for that.
We are in testing phase/pre-prod and using R820 DELL servers with All flash VSAN 6.7 u1(we dont have enough budget to get a VSAN recommended one).
As the integrated RAID controller H710P of DELL R820 servers are not performing well,we like to change the RAID controller(H710P) to LSI HBA card(9207-8i).
As of now,we changed the LSI HBA card(with the help of DC team) on one ESXi server and we have not done anything from VSAN side(no config changes done).Immediately all the 8 VSAN disks attached to the new LSI HBA card(9207-8i).
My doubts:- For example,R730 RAID card.If i want to change from RAID0 to HBA mode(passthrough),then we used to change "change to non raid" from BIOS to make the controller as a pass through.Before doing this,we need to evacuate all the data from VSAN DG and then it should be deleted.This is the recommendations from VMware
Like that, any changes is needed on my LSI HBA card(9207-8i)from ESXi side/VSAN side ?????
HBA card screenshot:-
I was not updated any firmware/driver to LSI HBA cards from broadcom website.It still uses the default driver from ESXi 6.7.0 u1.
And Im seeing the queue depth is 10104 from new LSI HBA card.Its surprising.Any ideas?
Thanks,
Manivel R
