ESXi on UCS c220 Boot issue

[Khurram Tariq]

dear all

i am confguring Esx 5.1 u2 on UCS c220-M3-S server, my CIMC version is 1.5(3). i have installed esxi 5.1 u 2 successfully but when it reboot for the first time to start it did not find any bootable device,even my boot order is hardrive in whihc installed esxi

Error: PXE-E61 media test failure chech cable

PXE-M0F exiting intel boot agent 

kindly help me out on this issu.

[Khurram Tariq]

dear it is configured already as u told no extra cable is present there , also in MegaRAID BIOS config utility when i select my controller its not showing anything in physical and lgical view,it should show the drives like unconfig good , but its not hsowing anything what could be te issue

[Khurram Tariq]

dear 

i ahve enable LSI raid under southbridge option from UCS BIOS ,after this its showing LSI MEGA RAID controller i configured virtual drive raid 0 in it but in esxi  insatllation this virtual drive is not present only four HDD drives are showing..

please help me out i am in serious trouble 

[Dragan Ilic]

I really want to help and giving my best 

Can you try installation with cisco customized ESXi install?

BR,

Dragan

[Khurram Tariq]

i am downloading it from vmware site esxi 5.1 u 1 hanged during installation , what do you mean by custom cisco esxi...??

[Dragan Ilic]

I mean something like this:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.1.0U1-MAY2013&productId=327

HTH,

Dragan

[Khurram Tariq]

yes i will download this custom esxi and let you know once its completed.

[Khurram Tariq]

i have attached the pictures of server from inside.

[Dragan Ilic]

On link:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C220/install/C220/raid.html#52681

which I gave you day ago there is cabling section (page 19)...have you check that cabling is OK? From your pictures I see that your disks are attached to embedded controller on backplane???

Or maybe I'm not seeing it right...

BR,

Dragan

[Khurram Tariq]

i dont have any extra cables with it ,the cable which is coming from drives connected with two SAS ports backplan SAS port 1 and SAS Port 2 as u see in the pictures, few days back i have insatlled thye same server with embedded controller and custom esxi  in the first attempt

[Dragan Ilic]

Well that explains much ...back to begins...

If you don't have cables and you want to use megaRAID you must purchase that.

Using embedded officialy is not supported and if works it will be probably very unstable...

BR,

Dragan

[Khurram Tariq]

ok Dragan thank you very much for your support, my controller have no slots to connect any cable as u r discussing, i am attaching pics of it see any tell me, 

[Dragan Ilic]

Yea I saw your pictures...well after deeper looking I think that your card doesn't need cables infact - my mistake...

Let's try from scratch - if you already didn't try this steps:

- disable SCU onboard (F2 to BIOS, Advanced, South bridge, onboard SCU = Disabled)

- shutdown server - remove power cable from it

- power up again after 10sec

- enter LSI config - I think "CTRL+M" but check that

- if you see your disks create virtual drive - if not I don't know what to suggest except Cisco TAC

- if successfully created virtual drive go with custom Cisco install which you downloaded - I think that we agreed it's ESXi 5.1 U1

HTH,

Dragan

[Khurram Tariq]

i did not shutdown after disabling it, but when i disabled it earlier it doesnot show virtual disks, CTRL +M enables only when imake SCU BOARD enable in south bridge.

when southbridge>scu>disabled it only shows MEGA raid controller and CTRL+H option for Webbios is enable, in webbios i did not see any disks but in videos and forums it should show disk in webbios .

[Khurram Tariq]

skype id if we talk: 

khurram.tariq11

[Khurram Tariq]

yes i have seen 19 page there,the red line which should be from raid controller to our drives, but in my server no cable is connected directly from raid controller to drives, only one black cable as u see in the pic is attached with controller and it ends on black small box contacins cell i think