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MFS5520VIR boot issues on SSD RAID 1

idata
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Environment:

MFSYS25V2

Firmware: 11.6

Compute Module: MFS5520VIR

Boot Drive: Storage pool consisting of 2 Intel 320 Series 80GB SSDs (part # SSDSA2CW08) . Two virtual drives configured as RAID 1 arrays

OS: VMWare ESX 5.1

There are two compute modules that each have their boot drives configured on this storage pool. There are other compute modules in this chassis that use non-SSDs for their storage pools & virtual drives.

The two compute modules using the SSD virtual drives consistently have issues booting. The watchdog timer always performs a hard reset at least once on these compute modules during reboots, often two and three times. The two events that appear in the event log are:

3522 - BIOS FRB2 Watchdog timer expired - The server was hard reset

3520 - Watchdog timer expired - The server was hard reset

The compute modules that boot to drives in the non-SSD storage pools never have this issue. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

 

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Edward_Z_Intel
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Did you monitor the boot process and see in which stage was the server rest? Did you assign a non-SSD VD to this compute module and see if it still has this issue?

Also please check the following BOIS settings:

Server Management => FRB-2 Enable [Enabled] It will reset the server if it doesn't complete the POST in ~6 mins.

Server Management => OS Boot Watchdog Timer [Disabled] This should be disabled unless Intel System Management Software is installed (not available on VMware ESXi)

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Edward_Z_Intel
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Also, do you have AXXTM3SATA installed? See http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/mfsys25/sb/CS-030937.htm Intel� Modular Server System MFSYS25 — AXXTM3SATA board and bracket assembly install guide

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idata
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Edward,

The drives do have the AXXTM3SATA adapters installed.

I was monitoring the boot process via remote KVM, but during the first two attempts nothing actually displayed in the KVM remote screen.

I will double check the BIOS settings you mentioned and also attempt booting to a non-SSD device.

Jason

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Edward_Z_Intel
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You can also check the log on CMM and see if there're anything related to POST failure. Doesn't look related to SSD if nothing is displaying on the screen.

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