Mixing Rules; Cisco Ucs 9300-8E Bad Drive And Predictive Failure Behavior - Cisco UCS C240 M4 Installation And Service Manual

Support Matrix For Cisco UCS C240 M4 Server RAID Controllers
Support Matrix For Cisco UCS C240 M4 Server RAID Controllers
Table C-2
Table C-2 Support Matrix For C240 M4 RAID Controllers
Boot SSD
C240 M4 (Internal)
Version Supported?
SFF 8 HDD No
LFF 12 HDD Yes
SFF 16 HDD No
SFF 24 HDD Yes
Cisco UCS SAS 9300-8e HBA Considerations
This section contains the following topics:
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Optical Cables Not Supported for 9300-8e HBA
The 9300-8e HBA does not support optical cables for connection to external storage (copper only).

Mixing Rules

Mixing the Cisco UCS 9300-8e HBA in the same server as the Cisco UCS 12G SAS Modular HBA
requires the following firmware levels:
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Cisco UCS 9300-8e Bad Drive and Predictive Failure Behavior

The bad drive and predictive failure behavior for the Cisco UCS SAS 9300-e HBA cards is different than
that for LSI MegaRAID cards. The list below compares behavior for these HBA cards and LSI
MegaRAID cards.
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Cisco UCS C240 M4 Server Installation and Service Guide
C-4
lists the support for the available controllers by server version.
Embedded
Software AHCI
RAID Mode
Control Control
Boot SSD Boot SSD
(Internal)?
(Internal)?
N/A N/A
Yes Yes
N/A N/A
Yes Yes
Optical Cables Not Supported for 9300-8e HBA, page C-4
Mixing Rules, page C-4
Cisco UCS 9300-8e Bad Drive and Predictive Failure Behavior, page C-4
Setting the Preferred Boot Device for Cisco UCS 9300-8e, page C-5
Cisco IMC/BIOS 2.0(8) or later
Cisco UCS Manager 2.2(6) or later (for integrated servers only)
Bad/invalid/0MB drive handling:
MegaRAID: The bad drive is marked BAD in the GUI/CLI interfaces and the fault LED on the
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drive is solid amber.
Hardware Embedded
Controller Software
Card RAID
Control Control
Boot SSD Front-Facing
(Internal)? drives?
N/A Yes
No No
N/A No
No No
Appendix C RAID Controller Considerations
Cisco 12G
Modular
RAID
AHCI mode Controller
Control Card Control
Front-Facing Front-Facing
drives? Drives?
No Yes
No Yes
No Yes
No Yes
SAS 9300-8i
HBA Controller
Card Control
Front-Facing
Drives?
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
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