Dear Folks,
I have a confusion in one of my deployments. My client ordered initially a UCS 220M3 server, which came along with a windows CD. It was supposed to be used as an LMS 4.1 server. Later on there were some variation and customer wants to have prime infrastructure over it. Now I am unable to understand how to do it. The server which came doesnt have any OS. It has one 600 GB hard drive. I have following issues now...i am a bit confused as i am new to the UCS.
1. Through the CIMC i canot see any physical HDD installed. I went to the LSI software raid controller through the startup using ctrl+M. I made a RAID0 selecting the HDD and it shows the RAID has been configured and there is one virtual drive in the system. When the system boots i can see that the drive is online but When i access the CIMC and nevigate to the storage ->storage cards->controller info I see virtual drive count = 0 and physical drive count = 0
2. On the same page, i see "controller status: Not present" and the "internal status: initializing".
3. When i nevigate to the storage->storage cards->physcial drive info, i see flexflash = missing
4. when i run the Vmware ESXi setup from cisco dvd bootup, the vmware is unable to see any virtual drive to get installed on.
I am attaching snaps of all the problems mentioned above. I seriously need some quick help on this as the project is getting delayed.
