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Hello everyone. We have a setup with a few UCS C220 servers connected to a pair of Nexus 9k over the VIC cards. Each 10GE links carries multiple VLANs and we have a few Standard switches on vSphere6.0.
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Hi Cisco community,
I am trying to enable a server we have with multiple SAS drives by installing any OS. During installation, none of the drives are recognized. Looking at past posts, I found:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12983986/c2...
Cool, and re: not have any RAID protection, that is still possible once i have the HW in place? Again, this is a dev setup and don't need RAID, we have other backup and recovery mechanisms in use.Thank you!
Final question as I don't have room for error anymore
I could use one of the following according to the spec sheet. All of them would work with ESXi? Also, I really don't want to enable RAID at all, will I be able to do that after installing the co...
Thank you Kirk. Ok, that is bad news So for running ESXi hosts, I cannot use the embedded controller so will have to go with a SAS controller, correct?
Thank you!!
Hi Kirk,
I don't want or plan to use any controller for the SAS drives, would that be allowed? I currently have the SW controller disabled on both the CIMC BIOS config and Setup and still the SAS drives are not showing up.
Thank you!!
Thank you Kirk. What I want to do is completely disable the embedded RAID controller as I don't want to use any RAID controller, virtual or physical. The hosts will be used for virtualization. What is the process to do that, if you know.
Thanks again...
