Installing Server on Riser SSDs

[itguy1024]

I have a c240 M4 with sas drives for backup storage and ssds on the riser to install server on.

My problem is that no matter what I have tried the OS installs on the ssds but puts the system reserved partition on the sas drives.

[balaji.bandi]

Hope below Post and document help you to resolve.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/unified-computing-system/ucs-c240-m4-will-not-boot-from-local-hdd-using-megaraid-12gb-sas/td-p/2909674

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C240M4/install/C240M4/raid.html

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[itguy1024]

The SSDs are in raid and show up correctly when I go through the server install. The problem is when you finally get into Server it was installed wrong.

I had the sas storage set to gpt and one partition before the install. After install you can see what happened.

[Kirk J]

Maybe delete the SAS VD, reinstall windows to your Riser based VD raid 1 mirror, which should force the use of the Riser based VD for the reserved partition.

Then re-create the SAS virtual drive, partition in windows, etc.

Thanks,

Kirk...

[itguy1024]

I took the SAS drives offline with diskpart and Server wouldn't even install on the SSDs after that.

[Kirk J]

Does your boot order contain an entry for 'pch' storage lun?

Thanks,

Kirk...

[itguy1024]

In UCS I have

Remote cd / dvd

Local lun (my ssds)