09-26-2011 03:17 AM - edited 03-01-2019 10:04 AM
Hello Guys & Girls,
I have bought the above server for one of my customers.
Together with the server i have ordered a LSI 9261-8i RAID card and 8 Seagate 500GB Hybrid SATA hard disks and 2 extra 4GB DIMMs.
I have installed everything and i have configured the LSI card in RAID 6. By the way i decided to use the automatic configuration with redundancy.
I have installed windows 2008 R2 standard edition and the system is extremely slow. What do i mean by that.
When i type or i try to move the mouse the system freezes for a few seconds. Then works again. Then freezes, works again, etc.
I have changed the configuration and i configured the LSI in RAID 60. Installed the operating system and same thing again.
I have tried every imaginable RAID configuration and same thing happens.
I sent everything back to CISCO except the hard disks and they told me that there was a problem with the LSI card and the server and they sent me a new one (It took them more than a month to send me a new server and a new LSI card).
As soon as i got them back i installed everything again including the operating system and same thing again.
My client gets really impatient and i dont know what else should i do in order to make the server usable.
I forgot to mention that i have tried to use non hybrid hard disks but same thing happens.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best Regards,
George
P.S."I would like to thank you in advance."
09-26-2011 03:29 AM
George,
Do you have an Intel 82576 adapter installed on this server?
If so the following post should help you:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3147005#3147005
This is basially an issue with the order inbox driver which lead to high CPU utlization and then in turn slow server performance.
Hope this helps!
./Abhinav
09-26-2011 06:35 AM
Hello abbharga,
Thank you very much for your help.
The system now seems to work fine.
I have spent sooooooooooo many hours trying to figure out what was the problem.
It was the only thing that i didnt think about it.
Once again thank you for your help.
Best Regards
George
09-28-2011 01:46 PM
Wish I had seen this earlier. Experienced same issue and lucked into solution when I happened to disable a second adapter. Updating to latest drivers from Intel resolved the issue for me.
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