Notably this driver uses the kernel scsi subsystem rather than implementing its own block device. The cciss driver has been removed from rhel7 and sles12. By best thermosteel bottle in reasonable price at june 19, 20. Diskraid monitoring for hp proliant servers and ubuntu 12. Products sold prior to the november 1, 2015 separation of hewlettpackard company into hewlett packard enterprise company and hp inc. Occasionally virtual machines vms get stuck in a zombie state and will not respond to a poweroff command using the traditional.
If you queue limits are all beyond 64 entries, what you typically see is that you just hit what mpage will fill in for. The panic happens upon boot of the kexec environment and before copy of the vmcore happens. Makedev cciss you need some entries in dev for the cciss device. These stats includes events per cpuin row, number of packets processed i. These boxes have internal scsi drives that use the hp cciss driver. System hangs with io stuck in smart array adapter cciss. Hello, i have her a couple of server hp dl380 g5 with an smartarray p400 raidcontroller. If you are a new customer, register now for access to product evaluations and purchasing capabilities.
The logical disks were seen by the linux systems as dev cciss c0d0 for logical disk 1 and dev cciss c0d1 for logical disk 2. This document 36152 is provided subject to the disclaimer at the end. As such disks presented by this driver will have the normal devsdx naming rather than dev cciss c0d0 used with the cciss driver. Attempting a scsi rescan with cciss driver results in write. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. H ow do i rescan an hp smart array for new disks without rebooting in centos or debian or rhel server. Only sequential access devices and medium changers are pre. How can i monitor the status of the hard disks and the raids of an hp proliant server using ubuntu 12. This controller is not supportedby rh anymore by the current hpsa driver which is be the replacment vor the older cciss driver in rh7, centos 6.
Are cciss controllers supported in red hat enterprise. I was able to install hpacucli software and it looks like it is running ok. Not just ide and scsi disks, but also disks attached to disk array controllers as the compaq ida or cciss. If you really want cciss on rhel7 checkout the elrepo directory a new smart array driver called hpsa has been accepted into the main line linux kernel as of dec 18, 2009, in linux2. Use the sysfs file system to discover and set attributes of the driver. Getting firmware version information on esxi and gnulinux. Note that the naming convention of the proc filesystem entries con. Only switch to hp drivers if you really need to, as they interfere with kernel updates.
This is the next generation driver which replaces cciss for many cards. This service will be undergoing disruptive maintenance at 15. Note that the naming convention of the proc filesystem entries contains a number in addition to the driver name e. Is it correct when i assume i need to install hpacucli to add the hd or partitions. If you have root access give us the output of cat procdriverccisscciss0. The cciss driver is a block driver as well as a scsi driver and only the tape drives and medium changers are presented to the scsi midlayer furthermore, unlike more straightforward scsi drivers, disk io continues through the block side during the scsi errorrecovery process therefore, the cciss driver implements only the first two of these actions, aborting the command, and resetting the device. All these modules present info in the proc filesystem. Jul 10, 2009 h ow do i rescan an hp smart array for new disks without rebooting in centos or debian or rhel server. We even tried to kill process with root id, but failed to do so. Some software requires a valid warranty, current hewlett packard enterprise support contract, or a license fee.
For the cciss driver, the d0 nodes matching devccisscd0 are the nodes which. For centos 6, hp finally switched to kmod cciss packages. Check hardware raid configuration command in linux using sas drive. Hi i need help i am new to the hp proliant dl380 g3 i got it cheap and want to use it as a server at home i have 4 hd in raid 1 all are 72gb hd. With smartctl we can also query detailed information on each individual disk that is part of the raid array, by specifying the raid type with d in my case cciss aka hp smart array followed by a comma and the drive number. Server frequently gets readonly file system server fault. Check hardware raid configuration command in linux. Jun 09, 2014 enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The cciss driver is a block driver as well as a scsi driver and only the tape drives and medium changers are presented to the scsi mid. Adding a scsi tape drive using the cciss driver in sles. Possible use of driver for hp smartarray p400cciss centos. When i do a cat partitions, i get see the cciss devices just like you do, but fdisk l does not show a hdd nor will clonezilla recognize them. Note that the naming convention of the proc filesystem entries con tains a number in addition to the driver name e.
Only sequential access devices and medium changers are presented as scsi devices to the scsi midlayer by the cciss driver. Linux rescan hp smart array for new disks nixcraft. It is written with rhel and sles in mind, but the guide may still help clarify what might be the problem here. Red hat enterprise linux 7 does not have the cciss driver red hat enterprise linux 7 fails to detect the p400 storage controller available with hp proliant dl380 g5. Below is the options for killing hung vms but as they run as processes, you should be able to apply the same practice. Join 40 million developers who use github issues to help identify, assign, and keep track of the features and bug fixes your projects need. Is cciss controllers supported in red hat enterprise linux 7.
How to find raid card firmware version how to upgrade firmware. This document 36152 is provided subject to the disclaimer at the end of this document environment. If your company has an existing red hat account, your organization administrator can grant you access. Oct 10, 2012 with smartctl we can also query detailed information on each individual disk that is part of the raid array, by specifying the raid type with d in my case cciss aka hp smart array followed by a comma and the drive number. This driver is for compaqs smart array controllers. Only sequential access devices and medium changers are presented 3 as scsi devices to.
If your server is in the list, you may be able to locate a newer driver. May 31, 2010 hi do any know how to check the raid firmware version on a hardware raid whit out restarting the server and going in to bios. This new driver will support new smart array products going forward, and the cciss driver will eventually be deprecated. For the cciss driver, the d0 nodes matching dev cciss cd0 are the nodes which correspond to the raid controllers. The following guide explains how to transition to the hpsa driver if previously supported by the deprecated cciss driver. We have a number of hp dl360s380s in the lab and i cannot get clonezilla to recognize the hdds. You can replace the device names with appropriate device names per your specific requirements.
The cciss driver must be informed that changes to the scsi bus have been made. This method must be implemented by classes based on this class. Apologies that was an old scrape, my actual config for which the backup was taken is. Furthermore, unlike more straightforward scsi drivers, disk io continues through the block side during the scsi errorrecovery process. Hp smart array uses cciss driver which is part of linux kernel itself. Recommended hp proliant smart array controller amd64em64t driver for red hat enterprise linux 5 amd64em64t by downloading, you agree to the terms and conditions of the hewlett packard enterprise software license agreement. Hi all, my tape is hp dat 72, modprobe st echo engage scsi procdriverccisscciss0 echo rescan proc.
When deploying sles 11 sp1 on hp proliant gen8 servers, obtain a bootable driver kit from suse, which contains an updated hpsa driver version. The driver then notifies the scsi midlayer of these changes. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that we dont need the cciss drivers anymore but are using hpsa sysmodulehpsa if this is something youll fix, then ill wait for an update, otherwise ill patch it locally, perhaps by ripping out the checks. How to find raid configurationlevel on hp machines.
How to add another raid to p400i controller on fedora. Only sequential access devices and medium changers are presented 144 as scsi devices to. Jun 19, 20 check hardware raid configuration command in linux using sas drive. My question is, is there a uniform way to find it, i. Cciss files proc driver ccisscciss reads the proc driver cciss cciss files and converts them into a dictionary in the data property. Below esx native command shows desired output for me. Even sync is not able to properly sync the server to proper stop the server many processes in state d waiting on io against cciss backed disks for. The cciss driver is a block driver as well as a scsi driver and only the tape drives and medium changers are presented to the scsi midlayer. This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to drive any controllers that the hpsa4 driver is capable of controlling, which. Rhel 4 and hp storageworks dat 72h hi all, i would like to share an info for those of you who happened to install rhel 4 red hat enterprise linux 4 and has trouble finding the hp dat 72 tape drive. The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and make hpsa an alias to cciss.
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