B200 M3 SAN Boot Windows 2012 Issues

[Cam K]

Hi,

I am trying to install Windows 2012 on a LUN hanging off an EMC Clariion CX120 to a B200 M3 blade.  The blade has 1 FC HBA zoned to a single target.

What I notice during the Windows install is that once the FCoE Miniport driver is loaded, the initiator is no longer logged into the SAN and the LUN is not seen by Windows Setup.  Up until that point, the initiator is logged in.

I have booted the blade with an ESXi install CD to verify the LUN is seen and can be accessed by the blade.

The blade is running 2.21(c) firmware, I have tried downgrading to 2.1.3a.  I have tried various driver version.  I have gone so far as to create a LUN on our CX-240 and ran into the same results.

Any ideas?  Need more info?  Please let me know.

Thanks.

[Walter Dey]

Maybe you will find a hint in below document; something trivial must be causing this trouble; honestly, I strongly believe that your UCS and MDS setup is correct.

CISCO MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD FAST TRACK 3.0 SOLUTION FOR EMC VSPEX WITH SYSTEM CENTER 2012 SP1 FOR 250 VMS DEPLOYMENT GUIDE

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_mspc_fasttrack30.pdf

[Cam K]

adapter 2/5/1 (fls):1# lunlist
vnic : 15 lifid: 4
  - FLOGI State : flogi est (fc_id 0x6c0904)
  - PLOGI Sessions
     - WWNN 50:06:01:60:44:60:06:cf WWPN 50:06:01:60:44:60:06:cf fc_id 0x6c0000
       - LUN's configured (SCSI Type, Version, Vendor, Serial No.)
           LUN ID : 0x0000000000000000 (0x0, 0x4, DGC     , APM00092300547)
       - REPORT LUNs Query Response
           LUN ID : 0x0000000000000000
  - Nameserver Query Response
     - WWPN : 50:06:01:60:44:60:06:cf

The output is before loading the driver during windows installation.  After loading the driver, there is no output.

Adapter installed is: Cisco UCS VIC 1240 (UCSB-MLOM-40)

Drivers are from ucs-bxxx-drivers.2.2.1a.iso

Path is: K:\Windows\Storage\Cisco\MLOM\W2K12\x64

Thanks for your response, any other info needed, please let me know.

[Manuel Velasco]

Hi Cam

From the output you provided looks like the storage configuration is correct. Now, it is expected to see no output at the screen after you load the drivers as at that point, the adapter is not anymore in charge of the communication with the storage.  Once you load the drivers, the drivers are the ones in charge with the communication with the storage.

Now, in your boot order did you include the "local CD/DVD" option? if not can you add this too please.  I am not sure if you did since you cropped the screenshot.

How are you loading these drivers?

Are you mounting the drivers image to the KVM?

[Cam K]

Yes, CD/DVD boot option is included in the boot order.  I am loading the drivers from the images mount to the KVM.

[Cam K]

Turns out the MDS switches were running v3.3(3).  I upgraded them to 5.2.8d, loaded the fnic driver during Windows install and the LUN was immediately seen.

Thanks all for the help