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Configuration Guide
Support for Cisco UCS C220/C240
M3 Rack Servers
Create and Modify RAID Volumes:
Configuration Guide
March 12, 2014
© 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public.
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  • Page 1 Configuration Guide Support for Cisco UCS C220/C240 M3 Rack Servers Create and Modify RAID Volumes: Configuration Guide March 12, 2014 © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 1 of 33...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Using the LSI MegaCLI Utility ..........................30 General Parameters ............................31 Command Syntax ............................... 31 Conclusion ................................32 For More Information ............................. 32 © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 2 of 33...

  • Page 3: Purpose Of This Document

    RAID has become popular because it improves I/O performance and increases storage subsystem reliability. RAID Levels Supported by Cisco UCS C220/C240 M3 Rack Servers The RAID levels supported on any Cisco UCS C-Series server vary by RAID controller and can be verified in Cisco IMC.

  • Page 4: Raid 0

    Advantages Provides complete data redundancy Limitations Requires twice as many drives Drives 2 through 32 (must be an even number of drives) © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 4 of 33...

  • Page 5: Raid 1E

    Requires twice as many drives. Allows only 50 percent of the physical drive storage capacity to be used Drives 4 through 32 (must be an even number of drives) Figure 4. RAID 1E Drive Group 1 © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 5 of 33...

  • Page 6: Raid 5

    RAID 6 is excellent for environments with applications that have high read request rates but low write request rates. Table 5 provides an overview of RAID 6. Figure 6 shows an example of RAID 6 use. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 6 of 33...

  • Page 7: Raid 10

    RAID 10 is excellent for environments that require a higher degree of fault tolerance and medium-sized capacity. Table 6 provides an overview of RAID 10. Figure 7 shows an example of RAID 10 use. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 7 of 33...

  • Page 8: Raid 50

    RAID 50 is excellent for environments that require high reliability, high request rates, high data transfer, and medium-sized to large capacity. Table 7 provides an overview of RAID 50. Figure 8 shows an example of RAID 50 use. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 8 of 33...

  • Page 9: Raid 60

    Table 8 provides an overview of RAID 60. Figure 9 shows an example of RAID 60 use. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 9 of 33...

  • Page 10: Cisco Integrated Management Controller Overview

    Cisco Integrated Management Controller Overview The Cisco IMC is the management service for the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. Cisco IMC runs within the server. The Cisco IMC GUI is a web-based management interface. You can launch the GUI and manage the server from any remote host that meets the following minimum requirements: ●...

  • Page 11: Management Interfaces

    Use the Cisco IMC GUI to invoke the Cisco IMC CLI ● View a command that has been invoked through the Cisco IMC CLI in the Cisco IMC GUI ● Generate Cisco IMC CLI output from the Cisco IMC GUI...
  • Page 12 Step 2: Open the Storage tab in the left panel and select the controller to which SAS cables are connected. LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i Controller © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 12 of 33...
  • Page 13 Step 3: Open the Controller Info tab and select the Create Virtual Drive from Unused Physical Drives option; then proceed with drive creation. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 13 of 33...
  • Page 14 Create Virtual Drive button will not be enabled. ◦ When only one physical drive is selected, the Create Virtual Drive button is dimmed. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 14 of 33...
  • Page 15 >> button to create the drive group. Then click the Create Virtual Drive button at the bottom to create a virtual drive. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 15 of 33...

  • Page 16: Creating A Hot Spare

    A global hot spare defined on any channel should be available to replace a failed drive on both channels. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 16 of 33...

  • Page 17: Creating A Dedicated Hot Spare

    Step 1: To create a global hot spare, log in to Cisco IMC and navigate to the Storage tab and then the Physical Drive Info tab. Step 2: Select the unconfigured drive; the options for creating a global or dedicated hot spare are displayed in the Actions area.
  • Page 18 Step 1: To create a dedicated hot spare, log in to Cisco IMC and select the Storage tab and then the Physical Drive Info tab. Step 2: Select the unconfigured drive, and in the Actions area select Make Dedicated Hot Spare.

  • Page 19: Creating A Raid Volume Based On Multiple Drive Groups: Raid 00, 10, 50, And 60

    Table 9 describes how to configure RAID 00, 10, 50, and 60. The virtual drives must have the same stripe size, and the maximum number of spans is eight. The full drive capacity is used when you span virtual drives. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 19 of 33...
  • Page 20 Step 2: Open the Storage tab and click on the Controller Info tab. Select the Create Virtual Drive from Unused Physical Drives option; then proceed with virtual drive creation. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 20 of 33...
  • Page 21 If you create only one drive group, you will not be allowed to create a RAID 10 volume. ◦ When the minimum requirements are met (two drive groups with two physical drives), you can create a RAID 10 volume. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 21 of 33...
  • Page 22 Click the Create Virtual Drive button and navigate to the Virtual Drive Info tab to see the RAID 60 volume that has been created. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 22 of 33...

  • Page 23: Replacing A Drive And Rebuilding The Data

    You can track the rebuild process from the Cisco IMC. Step 1: Log in to Cisco IMC and navigate to the Storage tab. In the example shown here, the RAID 1 virtual drive is created by using two physical drives (drives 5 and 6).
  • Page 24 View the Storage > Virtual Drive Info tab. Then view the Storage > Physical Drive Info tab. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 24 of 33...
  • Page 25 Step 3: When the new drive is installed, the drive rebuilding begins, and the data on the failed drive is rebuilt on the hot spare. View the Storage > Virtual Drive Info tab. Then view the Storage > Physical Drive Info tab. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 25 of 33...

  • Page 26: Changing The Raid Level With The Webbios Utility

    RAID-level migration running, a boot operation may take more than 15 minutes. Follow the steps presented here to change the RAID level using the WebBIOS configuration utility. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 26 of 33...
  • Page 27 Step 1: Reboot the server and press Ctrl+H to open the server WebBIOS configuration utility. Step 2: Select the adapter or RAID controller and then Virtual Drives. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 27 of 33...
  • Page 28 In the example here, there is only one drive group, RAID 0; to migrate it to RAID 1, select RAID 1 from the drop-down list. Select Change RAID Level and Add Drive for this example; then click Go. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 28 of 33...
  • Page 29 Step 8: A reconstruction operation begins on the virtual drive. Let it complete before performing any other tasks in the WebBIOS configuration utility. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 29 of 33...

  • Page 30: Using The Lsi Megacli Utility

    Note that you must enter megacli before every command, as shown in Figure 12. The command in the figure shows the number of adapters (controllers) installed. Figure 12. Using MegaCLI © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 30 of 33...

  • Page 31: General Parameters

    MegaCli –CfgSpanAdd –r (#Raid level#) –Array0 [E: S, E: S] –Array1 [E: S, E: S] –aN Figure 13 shows the creation of a double-drive-group RAID volume. © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 31 of 33...

  • Page 32: Conclusion

    MegaCLI Command to Show Migration Progress Conclusion This document has described the RAID levels, how to create RAID virtual drives on Cisco UCS C220 and C240 servers from Cisco IMC, and also how to migrate virtual drive RAID levels from WebBIOS and MegaCLI.
  • Page 33 Printed in USA C07-732029-00 6/14 © 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public. Page 33 of 33...

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