C220M3 FlexFlash in Unhealthy state

[Gordon Ross]

I have a C220M3 running the latest (2.0(13f)) firmware.

The CIMC is showing the FlexFlash as being Degraded. When I look at the FlexFlash via the CLI, I see:

/chassis/flexflash # show physical-drive 
Physical Drive  Slot    Controller   Role              Health     Status    Card Type   
--------------- ------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- --------- ----------- 
SLOT-1          SLOT-1  FlexFlash-0  primary           healthy    present   SD253 card  
SLOT-2          SLOT-2  FlexFlash-0  secondary active  unhealthy  present   SD253 card  

The status of the second flash card is confusing me. Is says "Secondary Active" and "Unhealthy".

Does this mean the system is using the second card or not? Can I just run a "synchronize-card-configuration SLOT-1" to re-sync the cards? I have  already done a full power cycle of the server.

Thanks,

GTG

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

I recently ran into an 'unhealthy' status on a c240m3 where I 'resync'd via the CIMC interface.

It was after booting to the SCU ISO, and clicking the 'hypervisor sync' button that it cleared the health alert.  The sync from the SCU takes about 45 minutes.

Kirk...

[Gordon Ross]

But that means the server's offline for all that time :-(

Can it not be done via the SSH interface?

GTG

[Kirk J]

Unfortunately no.

The context for running the SCU ISO, is booting and running specific code in the SCU ISO, vs running existing code on the CIMC that is already in place.  It's the existing code or process running in the CIMC that is appearing to not complete.

The SCU will also tell you to not reboot the server until the sync inside the SCU tool is done.

Thanks,

Kirk...

[Gordon Ross]

Mine took four hours and then said it failed :-(

I'm guessing one of the SD cards is faulty. I'm guessing it's the SLOT-2 one?

GTG