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ian31 · 02-23-2025

Can the C220 M5 Boot Windows from an Intel P4600 or P3700 PCIe SSD/NVME drive?From a previous post, I could not get the 3rd party NVME card with a Samsung 970 to boot, hoping a genuine Intel enterprise ssd/nvme PCIe card would work? Not much on Googl...

ian31 · 01-27-2025

Been racking my brain and google-ing up a storm, looking through cisco posts and various sites to no avail.I have a UCS-C220-M5, I picked up and installed the UCS-MSTOR-M2 (800-46240-01 B0+) but for whatever reason it shows up as SlotID: MSTOR-RAID i...

ian31 · 02-06-2025

Thanks! This is on the m2 slots on the motherboard, figured they would support nvme.Im awaiting some m.2 sata drives (not nvme) in the mail to see if those work. I could boot an nvme from a 3rd party m.2 - pcie adapter card, but the server saw the ca...

ian31 · 01-30-2025

The other confusing part to this is I can boot the Windows installer, Windows sees the nvme and installs Windows to it. Then on reboot it doesnt boot from the device and I end up at the EFI shell. From what I gather in UEFI mode, Windows writes the b...

ian31 · 01-28-2025

Thanks for the tip! I started looking into this last night (well the 1 vs 2 notches on m.2 drives anyways as the Cisco 240gb have 2 notches). I'll pick up a m.2 sata and try it out.Is there a nvme version of the UCS-MSTOR- module to utilize the newer...

ian31 · 01-27-2025

I just did this on an C220 M5, 4.0.x to 4.3.x, loaded the HUU and it updated everything.

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