UCS C460 M4 NVMe Boot

[rbohne]

Hi,

I have an C460 M4 without raid controller, it just booted from SD-Card. I added an NVMe PCIe (Intel P3500 800GB NVMe SFF SSD SSDPE2MX800G4J)  in bay 5 it recognizes by the BIOS and operating system on the SD-Card, but I cannot boot from the NVMe:

According to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/c460m4/install/C460/replace.html It should be possible

Observe these restrictions for NVMe SFF 2.5-inch SSDs:

• You can boot (UEFI only) from an NVMe SFF 2.5-inch SSD only with Cisco IMC 2.0(13) or later server firmware. For Cisco UCS Manager-integrated servers, booting is supported only with Cisco UCS Manager 3.1(2) or later software.
• NVMe SFF 2.5-inch SSDs support booting only in UEFI mode. Legacy boot is not supported.

My Versions: BMC is running 4.1(2h) and BIOS C460M4.4.1.2d.0.0202212057

It's not an official Cisco drive, but one of the same models. CIMC's is complaining with "Invalid Firmware" - Is there a way to boot NVMe from a non Cisco branded NVMe, or do I need a Cisco NVMe?

Thanks
Robert

[rbohne · Accepted solution]

My fault, install an OS at the NVMe and you can boot from it 🤦🏻‍