
- #Avago megaraid storage manager how to
- #Avago megaraid storage manager install
- #Avago megaraid storage manager update
the "PD=14" is confusing since I've pulled PD 14 and it still shows this every 30-60 seconds. I'm not super worried, as they're just "information" warnings, but they spam my logs, and I'd like to try and figure out the cause of it. RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6 for more data security.
#Avago megaraid storage manager install
This package contains the compressed files which will install the 2.91-05 verdion of the LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager. This page is not a piece of advice to uninstall megaraid storage manager by avago from your pc, we are not. Asus P5BV-M LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager 2.91-05. I just ordered for approved SAS 15k drives, so those will replace the four Samsung drives, but if the errors still show up, then maybe I'll power down the entire set of Seagate drives to see if that solves it. Megaraid sas software user guide june 2012 revision history note for a history of all technical changes made to this guide for the previous releases, refer to appendix c. I'm wondering if it might be the Samsung or Seagate drives, like you mentioned, though possibly the samsung drives as it's done it for a while, and i only got WD and seagate drives recently. There was a "unexpected sense" bug in the intel firmware for the expander, but that was fixed.
#Avago megaraid storage manager update
The original, excellent instructions from Mike Smith at Serenity-Networks, despite being for ESXi 5.5, seemed to work with some minor adaptations for ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 5969303), with the latest versions of software from Avago (Broadcom).
#Avago megaraid storage manager how to
I've already got the latest firmware on the LSI 9260-8i, as well as latest MSM, I update when new firmware comes out almost immediately. Original article: How to install LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) on ESXi 5.5. The firmware update fixed the error and random halting/crashing issue that the powering up and down of the drives caused. In the worst scenarios it would result in a crash of the controller and the OS would freeze in a manner where it would still appear to be running but the connection to the drives were all missing. In my case it wasn't anything wrong with the drives or the controller per-se but just a miscommunication between the (2) that caused some of the drives to change state unexpectedly and confuse the controller. I would try updating to the latest firmware for your controller card and see if the errors go away. In my case it also resulted in the controller reporting immature failure of the drives when they were in reality perfectly fine. It was fixed in a later firmware update for the controller which in effect disabled all power management functionality of the controller and caused the controller to not attempt to send in-active drives to sleep. Ok, I walked into an environment where we have a lot of workstations and use LSI (Avago) cards. Apparently it was a bug with the firmware of the I believe Seagate drives I had on the controller and the controller itself. In my case when I saw a similar error what was happening is the system was unexpectedly awakening the hot spare drive from sleep, sending it to sleep waking it up and this continuously happened all the time. This is likely a power management firmware bug that I have seen with some drives on these controllers.
