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Upgrade RAID controller for Cisco UCSM 2.2 integration with C240

gsidhu
Level 3
Level 3

‎07-02-2015 02:42 PM - edited ‎03-01-2019 12:16 PM

Hi

This is for a VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) implementation with Cisco UCS Manager 2.2(5a). Cisco
UCSM is integrated with 4 x Cisco C240-M4SX servers which all have Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller (UCSC-MRAID12G).

 

There is no local storage... ESXi 5.5 booting from Cisco 64GB FlexFlash SD card.

 

I need to upgrade the device drivers on the Raid Controller which are on my laptop (windows 7 os).

 

Does anybody know how I will be able to do this?

 

Is there a way using CLI session? What is the syntax (please provide example to illustrate)?

 

Or

 

Do I need to use Cisco Host Upgrade Utility ? What is the procedure from UCSM?

 

Thanks

 

G

 

 

 

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Saurabh Kothari
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

‎07-02-2015 04:55 PM

Hey,

please check this link

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/servers-unified-computing/ucs-manager/116349-technote-product-00.html#anc19

I believe you want to upgrade RAID(sas) drivers on ESXi.

let me know if you require to understand the procedure.

thanks,

Saurabh

 

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gsidhu
Level 3
Level 3
In response to Saurabh Kothari

‎07-02-2015 11:37 PM

Hi Saurabh

 

I should have mentioned this earlier......Problem is that I don't see any datastores  and the 'Advanced Settings' is showing 'no devices currently enabled for passthrough'. (See screenshot attached).

 

I believe that this issue is down to driver incompatibility on the Raid Controller.

 

So with this information, how can I upgrade the Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller (UCSC-MRAID12G) to version 6.606.06.00.1vmw?

 

I should be able to upgrade the Host Firmware Package for Storage Controller according to the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/firmware-mgmt/gui/2-2/b_GUI_Firmware_Management_22/b_GUI_Firmware_Management_22_chapter_0111.pdf

 

However I cannot find 6.606.06.00.1vmw on Cisco Download software site.

 

The C240-M4SX servers have the latest ucs-k9-bundle-c-series.2.2.5a.C.bin

 

 

 

 

Can this be done through host firmware package in UCSM host firmware package in UCSM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saurabh Kothari
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee
In response to gsidhu

‎07-03-2015 03:42 AM

6.606.06.00.1vmw can be download from VMware site directly.

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=38642

 

Once you have the sas driver use it to upgrade the version

let me know if you need to understand the procedure for the same.

thanks,

-Saurabh

gsidhu
Level 3
Level 3
In response to Saurabh Kothari

‎07-07-2015 11:31 AM

ok I managed to sort this issue out....

 

First of all I created a directory on the tmp directory on the Cisco FlexFlash SD card Hypervisor partition. You can use a different directory but the tmp directory had the most available space.

 

I then used SCP to download the device drivers from my laptop to the Cisco FlexFlash SD card into the directory I created. (I also tried using FTP but the customer firewall was blocking FTP).

 

I then used the following esxcli command to upgrade the device driver on the RAID controller:

 

esxcli software vib update -d /tmp/gss/megaraid_sas-6.606.06.00-offline_bundle-2351571.zip

 

Finally after rebooting the server I issued the following esxcli command to verify that the new firmware version on the RAID controller:

 

vmkload_mod -s megaraid_sas

 

 

Saurabh Kothari
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee
In response to gsidhu

‎07-07-2015 11:40 AM

Hey, that's good news.

Glad you were able to resolve the issue.

thanks again for posting your queries to Cisco's support community.

-Saurabh

 

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Ian Brennan
Level 1
Level 1
In response to gsidhu

‎08-29-2015 11:20 AM

This does NOT update firmware, this simply updates the ESXi driver.  I also in the middle of the same exact configuration (C240 M4 & VMware Virtual SAN).  The VMware HCL calls for firmware version 4.270.00-4238.  I cannot figure out where this firmware version comes from.  It doesn't reference the version that shows in UCS Manager or the Cisco release notes for the firmware.  The firmware version I have installed is 24.7.0-0047.

 

See VMware HCL here: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=vsanio&productid=38642&vsanrncomp=true&vcl=true

 

I have my Virtual SAN fully deployed on these servers now, but once day I'm getting an error on 1/5 servers.  The SEL logs show that the disks Asserted and Deasserted until the logs fill up, and causes the Virtual SAN cluster to become Unhealthy.

 

 

EDIT: When I go to the MegaRaid configuration utility on system boot, I can see version 4.270.00-4238 listed, even though UCSM says 24.7.0-0047.  So I'm on the correct release, something else must be going on...

 




2 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD3_STATUS #0x49 | Drive Fault | Asserted 
3 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD4_STATUS #0x4a | Drive Fault | Asserted 
4 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD5_STATUS #0x4b | Drive Fault | Asserted 
5 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD6_STATUS #0x4c | Drive Fault | Asserted 
6 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD7_STATUS #0x4d | Drive Fault | Asserted 
7 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD8_STATUS #0x4e | Drive Fault | Asserted 
8 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD23_STATUS #0x5d | Drive Fault | Asserted 
9 | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD24_STATUS #0x5e | Drive Fault | Asserted 
a | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x62 | LED color is amber | Asserted 
b | 08/29/2015 02:04:43 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x62 | LED color is green | Deasserted 
c | 08/29/2015 02:04:44 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD1_STATUS #0x47 | Drive Fault | Asserted 
d | 08/29/2015 02:04:44 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD2_STATUS #0x48 | Drive Fault | Asserted 
e | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD1_STATUS #0x47 | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
f | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD2_STATUS #0x48 | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
10 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD3_STATUS #0x49 | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
11 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD4_STATUS #0x4a | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
12 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD5_STATUS #0x4b | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
13 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD6_STATUS #0x4c | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
14 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD7_STATUS #0x4d | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
15 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD8_STATUS #0x4e | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
16 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD23_STATUS #0x5d | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
17 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD24_STATUS #0x5e | Drive Fault | Deasserted 
18 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x62 | LED color is green | Asserted 
19 | 08/29/2015 02:04:49 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x62 | LED color is amber | Deasserted 
1a | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD1_STATUS #0x47 | Drive Fault | Asserted 
1b | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD2_STATUS #0x48 | Drive Fault | Asserted 
1c | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD3_STATUS #0x49 | Drive Fault | Asserted 
1d | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD4_STATUS #0x4a | Drive Fault | Asserted 
1e | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD5_STATUS #0x4b | Drive Fault | Asserted 
1f | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD6_STATUS #0x4c | Drive Fault | Asserted 
20 | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD7_STATUS #0x4d | Drive Fault | Asserted 
21 | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD8_STATUS #0x4e | Drive Fault | Asserted 
22 | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD23_STATUS #0x5d | Drive Fault | Asserted 
23 | 08/29/2015 02:04:54 | CIMC | Drive slot(Bay) HDD24_STATUS #0x5e | Drive Fault | Asserted 
24 | 08/29/2015 02:04:55 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x62 | LED color is amber | Asserted 
25 | 08/29/2015 02:04:55 | CIMC | Platform alert LED_HLTH_STATUS #0x62 | LED color is green | Deasserted
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Keny Perez
Level 8
Level 8

‎07-02-2015 07:43 PM

Why are you in need to update the Storage Controller drivers on server that does not use local disks????

 

-Kenny

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gsidhu
Level 3
Level 3
In response to Keny Perez

‎07-02-2015 11:15 PM

The engineer carrying out the VMware VSAN part of the implementation is having issues with configuring the Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller (UCSC-MRAID12G) for Passthrough mode.

When I enter 'esxcli storage core device list command' from the ESXi CLI it does not list the drives. (Each C240-M4SX server has 1 x SSD plus 7 x HDD).

The C240-M4SX are running Cisco custom VMware ESXi 5.5 U2 (Vmware-ESXi-5.5.0-2068190-custom-Cisco-5.5.2.3).

The driver that the Cisco VMware custom image installs for the RAID controller is Version 6.604.54.00.1vmw. I believe the issue is down to compatibility as the VMware VSAN compatibility guide specifies  version 6.606.06.00.1vmw. See screenshot attached

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Keny Perez
Level 8
Level 8
In response to gsidhu

‎07-03-2015 01:14 PM

So you have local storage!  you mentioned in the initial post "There is no local storage... ESXi 5.5 booting from Cisco 64GB FlexFlash SD card.0"

Have you configured those disks in a RAID volume or at least JBOD to have the OS see the local storage?

 

-Kenny

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