03-18-2016 11:46 PM - edited 03-01-2019 12:39 PM
Hello , i would like to ask about the problem i encountered when installing the ESXi on my CISCO Blade UCS B200 M4. I have 2 local hard drive installed and in the Local Storage Profile options i selected Raid 1+0 . I did not touch the LUN Configuration there i just make it default.
And after that making the storage profile:
I Associate that profile to my server 2/1
When i boot up the Blade Server and tried to install the ESXi i got this error
03-21-2016 04:38 AM - edited 11-05-2019 06:36 PM
Greetings.
Were you using the Cisco customized image ESXi installer ISO when you got this error?
Thanks,
Kirk
03-21-2016 04:46 AM
03-01-2018 03:12 PM
Hello,
I'm curious to know if you solved this issue. I have a similar problem where I have three LUNs defined, but only two are handled by the BIOS.
Cheers,
Ham
03-01-2018 03:17 PM
Do you have a use case for the storage profile? You could create a RAID 1 in Local Disk Configuration on the service profile and install accordingly.
Do you have 4K sector drives?
03-01-2018 03:34 PM
Hi Wes,
My use case is SvSAN on a S3260.
I have two SSD drives mirrored and split into two LUNs - 100GB=boot and 350GB=cache. ESXi 6.5 sees both of these perfectly.
I also have a 60TB RAID6 LUN created from 13+1 HDDs that looks OK in the Service Profile and registers correctly as a virtual drive, but ESXi doesn't see it. Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Ham
03-01-2018 05:27 PM
Hello,
I am not a S3260 expert, but reviewing the spec sheet, I see a lot of SSD/HDD mentions 4Kn and 512e drives.
Looks like those are not designed for VMware:
FAQ: Support statement for 512e and 4K Native drives for VMware vSphere and vSAN
Might want to check if you are using those drives?
03-01-2018 05:25 PM
The VMkernel log says "Unsupported sector size:4096".
03-01-2018 05:36 PM
Looks like they are in fact 4K sector size.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C240M4/install/C240M4/replace.html
03-01-2018 05:43 PM
11-05-2019 11:50 AM
Just an update for the post, VMware starting 6.7 now support 4Kn drives
11-06-2019 09:22 AM
Can you provide info on what type of RAID Controller inventory you have on the blade in question? Physical or Soft?
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