dellmgr equiv for PERC 5/i (SAS based MegaRAID driver)

[Jason Goodwin]

This seems to work well for some things.

I noticed that the MegaCLI has many options in it that appear not to be supported by the PERC5/E cards. Does anyone have more details about what is/isn't supported by the PERC5/E cards? It looks like I may have to order LSI 8480E cards to replace the PERC5/E as it appears that clustering is disabled on the PERC5/E.

With MegaCLI you can run 'MegaCli -AdpGetProp ClusterEnable -a1' which returns:
"Adapter 1: Cluster : Disabled"
Running 'MegaCli -AdpSetProp ClusterEnable 1 -a1' does NOT work as expected, and I cannot find any BIOS or OMSA settings to enable it.

Really frustrating since these cards look like they are identical to the LSI 8480E. I guess not all firmware is created equal.

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Jason

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Harald_Jensas at dell.com
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:39 AM
To: adler at pobox.com; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Cc: Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Subject: RE: dellmgr equiv for PERC 5/i (SAS based MegaRAID driver)

LSILogic has a command line application, MegaCLI available in Linux, Windows and DOS that I have succesfully used with PERC 5/e controllers.

The readme file for MegaCLI - Linux:
http://www.lsilogic.com/files/support/rsa/MR_SAS_1.0_1.00.07-Linux-MegaCLI.txt


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Harald Jensås


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Michael Adler
> Sent: 02 August 2006 20:28
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Cc: Domsch, Matt
> Subject: dellmgr equiv for PERC 5/i (SAS based MegaRAID driver)
> 
> We've been using the utility 'dellmgr' with the PERC 4 series to 
> interact with the RAID controller while the OS is running.
> Not pretty, but it worked OK. 
> 
> Is there an equivalent utility for a PERC 5/i that uses the 
> megaraid_sas module?
> 
> We have a new PE 2900 running Debian .
> 
> Linux somehost 2.6.16-2-686-smp #1 SMP Sun Jul 16 01:23:04 UTC 2006 
> i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> megasas: 00.00.02.04 Fri Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006
> megasas: 0x1028:0x0015:0x1028:0x1f03: bus 2:slot 14:func 0 scsi0 : LSI 
> Logic SAS based MegaRAID driver
>   Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_073SAS  Rev: BP00
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
>   Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_073SAS  Rev: BP00
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
>   Vendor: MAXTOR    Model: ATLAS10K5_073SAS  Rev: BP00
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
>   Vendor: DP        Model: BACKPLANE         Rev: 1.00
>   Type:   Enclosure                          ANSI SCSI revision: 05
>   Vendor: DELL      Model: PERC 5/i          Rev: 1.00
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
>  -Mike
> 
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