Raid Controller Card Cable Routing; Installing Multiple Pcie Cards And Resolving Limited Resources - Cisco UCS C220 M3 Installation And Service Manual

Installing or Replacing Server Components

RAID Controller Card Cable Routing

If the PCIe card that you are installing or replacing is a RAID controller card, see
Considerations, page C-1

Installing Multiple PCIe Cards and Resolving Limited Resources

When a large number of PCIe add-on cards are installed in the server, the system may run out of the
following resources required for PCIe devices:
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The topics in this section provide guidelines for resolving the issues related to these limited resources.
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Resolving Insufficient Memory Space to Execute Option ROMs
The system has very limited memory to execute PCIe legacy option ROMs, so when a large number of
PCIe add-on cards are installed in the server, the system BIOS might not able to execute all of the option
ROMs. The system BIOS loads and executes the option ROMs in the order that the PCIe cards are
enumerated (Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot 3, etc.).
If the system BIOS does not have sufficient memory space to load any PCIe option ROM, it skips loading
that option ROM, reports a system event log (SEL) event to the CIMC controller and reports the
following error in the Error Manager page of the BIOS Setup utility:
ERROR CODE SEVERITY
146
To resolve this issue, disable the Option ROMs that are not needed for system booting. The BIOS Setup
Utility provides the setup options to enable or disable the Option ROMs at the PCIe slot level for the
PCIe expansion slots and at the port level for the onboard NICs. These options can be found in the BIOS
Setup Utility Advanced → PCI Configuration page.
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Cisco UCS C220 Server Installation and Service Guide
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for required cables and cable routing guidelines.
Option ROM memory space
16-bit I/O space
Resolving Insufficient Memory Space to Execute Option ROMs, page 3-38
Resolving Insufficient 16-Bit I/O Space, page 3-39
INSTANCE
Major N/A
Guidelines for RAID controller booting:
If the server is configured to boot primarily from RAID storage, make sure that the option ROMs
for the slots where your RAID controllers installed are enabled in the BIOS, depending on your
RAID controller configuration.
If the RAID controller does not appear in the system boot order even with the option ROMs for those
slots are enabled, the RAID controller option ROM might not have sufficient memory space to
execute. In that case, disable other option ROMs that are not needed for the system configuration to
free up some memory space for the RAID controller option ROM.
See also Factory-Default Option ROM Settings, page
Guidelines for onboard NIC PXE booting:
If the system is configured to primarily perform PXE boot from onboard NICs, make sure that the
option ROMs for the onboard NICs to be booted from are enabled in the BIOS Setup Utility. Disable
other option ROMs that are not needed to create sufficient memory space for the onboard NICs.
DESCRIPTION
PCI out of resources error.
Major severity requires user
intervention but does not
prevent system boot.
C-5.
Chapter 3 Maintaining the Server
RAID Controller
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