Blade booting from volumes larger than 2 TB - IBM BladeCenter HS22 (1936, 7870) , HS22V (1949, 7871)

Troubleshooting

Problem

BladeCenter HS22 and HS22V will not boot from volumes larger than 2 TB that are connected to the on-board Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller. The operating system on the blade does not recognize the boot Logical Unit Number (LUN). This tip applies only to SAS or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard drives that are connected via the on-board LSI SAS circuitry. It does not apply to any Fibre or Ethernet storage arrays.

Resolving The Problem

Source

RETAIN tip: H204000

Symptom

This tip applies only to SAS or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard drives that are connected via the on-board LSI SAS circuitry. It does not apply to any Fibre or Ethernet storage arrays.

Affected configurations

The system may be any of the following IBM servers:

BladeCenter HS22, type 1936, any model
BladeCenter HS22, type 7870, any model
BladeCenter HS22V, type 1949, any model
BladeCenter HS22V, type 7871, any model

The system is configured with one or more of the following IBM Options:

LSI 1064e Integrated Controller

This tip is not software specific.

The following system firmware level(s) are affected:

V 2.73

Solution

Update the on-board SAS controller to version 2.74 or later.

The file is available by selecting the appropriate machine type on the 'Product View' of IBM Support's Fix Central web page, at the following URL:

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/systemx/groupView?query.productGroup=ibm%2FBladeCenter

Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

BladeCenter:Operating system independent / None

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