[OmniOS-discuss] Ang: Re: Ang: How to use LSI's storcli?

[Johan Kragsterman]

Hi again!



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Ärende: Re: Ang: [OmniOS-discuss] How to use LSI's storcli?

Hi Johan,

Am 21.01.15 um 08:33 schrieb Johan Kragsterman:
Hi!


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Ärende: [OmniOS-discuss] How to use LSI's storcli?

Hi guys,

I am struggling to get storcli to work - well, not actually to work, but 
to show me any of my 2907 HBAs, as storcli reports a number of 0 
installed HBAs:

root at nfsvmpool02:/opt/MegaRAID/CLI# ./storcli show
Status Code = 0
Status = Success
Description = None

Number of Controllers = 0
Host Name = nfsvmpool02
Operating System  = SunOS5.11

So, how do I make use of it?



Isn't the StorCLI a tool for megaraid controllers?

Well, I thought that the MRM supported both the plain HBAs and the RAID ones. Interestingly, on my Linux boxe both, the storcli and the MegaCLI seem to be the same binary. Plus, when installing the MRM package with all it's bells and whistles, my *actually* 9207-8i do show up in the UI and can be managed. I just checked the readme from the MRM software package and it specifically notes support for the LSI SAS 9207-8i.









Well, then I supposer I was wrong!

I was reading online that the StorCLI was meant for managing MegaRaid adpters, and for sure LSISAS9207-8i is not a MegaRaid adapter, it has not the MegaRaid bios on it, as well as no MegaRaid firmware.
But if the readme says it is supported, then I guess it is!

And I was wondering why you would need to "manage" an HBA, since it is not much to manage...a Raid adapter is something to manage, but an HBA...? But of coarse, you can consider that firmware is something to manage, though I NEVER flash firmware online, since too much can happen...so I wouldn't use StorCLI for that purpose, I would do it offline with a dos utility. By the way, I've been using firmware P19 without any trouble so far, though not tested under heavy load.



Rgrds Johan










If your controller is an HBA, it is not a megaraid controller. By the way, did you mean 9207-8i, when you wrote 2907-8i? LSISAS9207-8i is an HBA, and it is NOT a MegaRaid controller, so I guess it shouldn't show up in the StorCLI.


Why would you need the StorCLI?

I wanted to check and probably update the FW on the 9207 from 15 to 18, as I seem to encounter an issue with a specific bug in the FW of those models.

Thanks,
budy