Solved: FlexFlash scrub doesn't appear to be working

josephdevaney · ‎06-03-2014

I have a scrub policy setup for FlexFlash to be scrubbed once I disassociate the profile from a server. I installed ESXi on a blade, then disassociated the profile, and expected the blade to come back with nothing installed. Much to my surprise, ESXi was still installed.

I have attached what my policy looks like, and I believe it is set properly.

It may be unrelated, but, I also noticed that there is an error with the RAID Health for my FlexFlash controller. Says Degraded, though I am unsure why as the SD cards are 2 brand new cards. I've attached a screenshot for that as well.

Mohammed Majid Hussain · ‎06-09-2014

Hi Joseph,

I see that you have a FlexFlash Virtual Drive RAID degraded on your server.

May i know if the reason listed is FFR_STATE_ENABLED_PAIRED_INVALID_SECONDARY ?

Suspect : CSCui67901

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCui67901/?reffering_site=dumpcr

The workaround is to re-acknowledge the blade twice with a flexflash scrub policy in place.

This should get the raid back to a health state and scrub the flex flash.

Thanks,

Majid

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Mohammed Majid Hussain · ‎06-09-2014

Hi Joseph,

I see that you have a FlexFlash Virtual Drive RAID degraded on your server.

May i know if the reason listed is FFR_STATE_ENABLED_PAIRED_INVALID_SECONDARY ?

Suspect : CSCui67901

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCui67901/?reffering_site=dumpcr

The workaround is to re-acknowledge the blade twice with a flexflash scrub policy in place.

This should get the raid back to a health state and scrub the flex flash.

Thanks,

Majid

josephdevaney · ‎07-07-2014

Majid,

I had put this issue aside until after I recently upgraded my system firmware to 2.2.1d, hoping some feature updates might help this, but it did not.

I have a second blade that is exhibiting this behavior as well, except that this blade is not using dual cards. I have my Scrub policy set to FlexFlash only. However, when I disassociate, FlexFlash is not scrubbed, I don't even get a warning about my policy being set to scrub FlexFlash as I would if I had it set to Disk.

Keny Perez · ‎07-07-2014

Could you please try to disassociate the server and do a re-acknowledge of the server twice and let us know if the issue goes away? If it doesn't, decommission the blade, reseat it and reack the blade.

Let us know.

-Kenny

josephdevaney · ‎07-08-2014

This seemed to work, but, I am now facing another error when trying to reinstall ESXi. I am getting the following error, which I created a new question for since it is a new issue. It can be found here

Keny Perez · ‎07-08-2014

Joseph,

Could you please mark the first answer (mohammhu's answer) as correct so that future users can see you solved the problem you posted? Let me take a look at the new thread.

-Kenny

josephdevaney · ‎07-08-2014

Kenny,

I marked Majid's answer correct.

Can you comment as to whether there will be a fix for this in an upcoming firmware update?

Keny Perez · ‎07-09-2014

Joseph,

According to the documentation for that particular bug, the situation seems to be fixed on UCSM 2.2(2c).

-Kenny

Manuel Velasco · ‎07-07-2014

Hey Jose

Try what was recommended in the post below, there is a word document as well

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12247361/unable-install-flexflash-ucsm-integrated-c240s