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Mohammed,
What the bug is trying to say is that in a newer version (1.4(3c)) the behavior changes and the Physical Drive which was removed and inserted back shows the status "Missing" instead of showing up as "Unknown" under the Virtual Drive tab in CIMC as this is Unconfigured Bad drive and not part of the RAID group.
Now, the best you can do here is to monitor your system using CIMC, which is the tool we have to monitor/manage the C-Series server instead of vSphere itself.
To get rid of this behavior, you will have to enter into the WebBIOS (Control+H or C or M < Depends on what RAID controller you have), make the disk unconfig good, then make it only "online" so the disk can be part of the array again.
You may find out what is the sequence of keys you have to hit to ge to the controller during the server boot:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C200M1/install/c200M1/RAID.html
"Watch for the prompt for your controller during verbose boot:
•
The prompt for LSI controller card utility is Ctrl-H.
•The prompt for the mezzanine-style controller cards is Ctrl-C.
•The prompt for the onboard Intel ICH10R controller utility is Ctrl-M. "
Note-1: It is important you first check that the disk has no errors before you try to re-add it to the array, cause if that is the case the disk will probably fail and data loss can occur.
Note-2:Once in WebBIOS, you can also disable the beeping alarm and here is the document that shows how that can be done from WebBIOS (note that this will be the interface if you had to press Ctrl+H, otherwise it will look different) or also, you can use MegaCLI to disable the alarm, and the below link also includes the necessary command:
In case you don't know how to set up CIMC in your C200, here is the link with images and the example, look for the C200 to get the correct steps/cabling:
I hope this helps.
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-Kenny
Mohammed,
If you can ping CIMC but can ping it, can you access it via SSH?
Is this something similar to what you are seeing?
If the above is what you see, try the CMOS clear as described here:
Let me know if that is not what you meant.
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-Kenny
Mohammed,
What the bug is trying to say is that in a newer version (1.4(3c)) the behavior changes and the Physical Drive which was removed and inserted back shows the status "Missing" instead of showing up as "Unknown" under the Virtual Drive tab in CIMC as this is Unconfigured Bad drive and not part of the RAID group.
Now, the best you can do here is to monitor your system using CIMC, which is the tool we have to monitor/manage the C-Series server instead of vSphere itself.
To get rid of this behavior, you will have to enter into the WebBIOS (Control+H or C or M < Depends on what RAID controller you have), make the disk unconfig good, then make it only "online" so the disk can be part of the array again.
You may find out what is the sequence of keys you have to hit to ge to the controller during the server boot:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C200M1/install/c200M1/RAID.html
"Watch for the prompt for your controller during verbose boot:
•The prompt for LSI controller card utility is Ctrl-H.
•The prompt for the mezzanine-style controller cards is Ctrl-C.
•The prompt for the onboard Intel ICH10R controller utility is Ctrl-M. "
Note-1: It is important you first check that the disk has no errors before you try to re-add it to the array, cause if that is the case the disk will probably fail and data loss can occur.
Note-2:Once in WebBIOS, you can also disable the beeping alarm and here is the document that shows how that can be done from WebBIOS (note that this will be the interface if you had to press Ctrl+H, otherwise it will look different) or also, you can use MegaCLI to disable the alarm, and the below link also includes the necessary command:
In case you don't know how to set up CIMC in your C200, here is the link with images and the example, look for the C200 to get the correct steps/cabling:
I hope this helps.
Rate ALL helpful answers
-Kenny
Mohammed,
If you can ping CIMC but can ping it, can you access it via SSH?
Is this something similar to what you are seeing?
If the above is what you see, try the CMOS clear as described here:
Let me know if that is not what you meant.
Rate ALL helpful answers
-Kenny
