VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 show UNCONFIGURED GOOD for configured drives of LSI RAID Controllers
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VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 show the status information UNCONFIGURED GOOD for configured drives of LSI RAID Controllers on the Health Status page. This is a display issue.
Update on ESXi 5.1: the problem was resolved by VMware with the ESXi 5.1 Update 3 (12/04/2014).
Update on ESXi 5.5: the problem was resolved by VMware with the ESXi 5.5 Update 3 (09/16/2015).
Problem
Physical drives, which are part of a RAID volume, are still displayed as UNCONFIGURED GOOD:
Affected Systems
We have seen this issue with the following server configuration:
- VMware ESXi 5.5 U1 (VMware vSphere 5.5)
- LSI MegaRAID 9271-4i with Firmware 23.28.0-0010 (MR 5.10)
- LSI CIM Provider 500.04.V0.37-0006, 500.04.V0.38-0006, and 500.04.V0.51-0002
- LSI drivers scsi-megaraid-sas 6.602.54.00-1OEM.550.0.0.1198610 and 6.603.55.00-1OEM.500.0.0.472560
We saw this issue also with VMware ESXi 5.1. We did not observe this issue with ESXi 5.0 and a LSI MegaRAID 9260-4i controller (see the screenshots in the article Changing the language used by vSphere Client).
State
- State as of June, 11th 2014: We reported this issue to LSI. In case of any new information, we will update this article.
- State as of February, 11th 2015: Problem is resolved for ESXi 5.1 with the ESXi 5.1 Update 3.
- State as of September, 17th 2015: Problem is resolved for ESXi 5.5 with the ESXi 5.5 Update 3.
Workaround
You can use the storcli or the MegaRAID Storage Manager as a workaround until a solution for this problem is available.
Both tools show the correct status information for those physical drives. Here is the output of storcli as an example:
/opt/lsi/storcli # ./storcli /c0 show Generating detailed summary of the adapter, it may take a while to complete. Controller = 0 Status = Success Description = None Product Name = LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-4i Serial Number = SV30900638 SAS Address = 500605b005d31680 PCI Address = 00:01:00:00 System Time = 05/21/2014 13:04:55 Mfg. Date = 02/23/13 Controller Time = 05/21/2014 13:04:57 FW Package Build = 23.28.0-0010 BIOS Version = 5.46.02.0_4.16.08.00_0x06060900 FW Version = 3.400.05-3175 Driver Name = megaraid_sas Driver Version = 6.602.54.00.1vmw Vendor Id = 0x1000 Device Id = 0x5B SubVendor Id = 0x1000 SubDevice Id = 0x9276 Host Interface = PCIE Device Interface = SAS-6G Bus Number = 1 Device Number = 0 Function Number = 0 Drive Groups = 2 TOPOLOGY : ======== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DG Arr Row EID:Slot DID Type State BT Size PDC PI SED DS3 FSpace ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 - - - - RAID1 Optl N 74.0 GB enbl N N none N 0 0 - - - RAID1 Optl N 74.0 GB enbl N N none N 0 0 0 252:0 7 DRIVE Onln N 74.0 GB enbl N N none - 0 0 1 252:1 6 DRIVE Onln N 74.0 GB enbl N N none - 1 - - - - RAID1 Optl N 465.25 GB dflt N N none N 1 0 - - - RAID1 Optl N 465.25 GB dflt N N none N 1 0 0 252:2 5 DRIVE Onln N 465.25 GB dflt N N none - 1 0 1 252:3 4 DRIVE Onln N 465.25 GB dflt N N none - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DG=Disk Group Index|Arr=Array Index|Row=Row Index|EID=Enclosure Device ID DID=Device ID|Type=Drive Type|Onln=Online|Rbld=Rebuild|Dgrd=Degraded Pdgd=Partially degraded|Offln=Offline|BT=Background Task Active PDC=PD Cache|PI=Protection Info|SED=Self Encrypting Drive|Frgn=Foreign DS3=Dimmer Switch 3|dflt=Default|Msng=Missing|FSpace=Free Space Present Virtual Drives = 2 VD LIST : ======= ---------------------------------------------------------- DG/VD TYPE State Access Consist Cache sCC Size Name ---------------------------------------------------------- 0/0 RAID1 Optl RW No RWBD - 74.0 GB 1/1 RAID1 Optl RW No RWBD - 465.25 GB ---------------------------------------------------------- Cac=CacheCade|Rec=Recovery|OfLn=OffLine|Pdgd=Partially Degraded|dgrd=Degraded Optl=Optimal|RO=Read Only|RW=Read Write|B=Blocked|Consist=Consistent| R=Read Ahead Always|NR=No Read Ahead|WB=WriteBack| AWB=Always WriteBack|WT=WriteThrough|C=Cached IO|D=Direct IO|sCC=Scheduled Check Consistency Physical Drives = 4 PD LIST : ======= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EID:Slt DID State DG Size Intf Med SED PI SeSz Model Sp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 252:0 7 Onln 0 74.0 GB SATA SSD N N 512B INTEL SSDSC2BB080G4 U 252:1 6 Onln 0 74.0 GB SATA SSD N N 512B INTEL SSDSC2BB080G4 U 252:2 5 Onln 1 465.25 GB SATA HDD N N 512B WDC WD5003ABYX-01WERA1 U 252:3 4 Onln 1 465.25 GB SATA HDD N N 512B WDC WD5003ABYX-01WERA1 U ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EID-Enclosure Device ID|Slt-Slot No.|DID-Device ID|DG-DriveGroup DHS-Dedicated Hot Spare|UGood-Unconfigured Good|GHS-Global Hotspare UBad-Unconfigured Bad|Onln-Online|Offln-Offline|Intf-Interface Med-Media Type|SED-Self Encryptive Drive|PI-Protection Info SeSz-Sector Size|Sp-Spun|U-Up|D-Down|T-Transition|F-Foreign UGUnsp-Unsupported|UGShld-UnConfigured shielded|HSPShld-Hotspare shielded CFShld-Configured shielded Cachevault_Info : =============== ------------------------------------ Model State Temp Mode MfgDate ------------------------------------ CVPM02 Optimal 25C - 2012/09/25 ------------------------------------ /opt/lsi/storcli #
Author: Werner Fischer Werner Fischer, working in the Knowledge Transfer team at Thomas-Krenn, completed his studies of Computer and Media Security at FH Hagenberg in Austria. He is a regular speaker at many conferences like LinuxTag, OSMC, OSDC, LinuxCon, and author for various IT magazines. In his spare time he enjoys playing the piano and training for a good result at the annual Linz marathon relay.
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