How Can HBA Firmware Warnings and Incorrect Disk Ordering During a Fresh Install to V2.0.1 Reimage Be Resolved?

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Update Date:	2017-06-15
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Solution 1534264.1 : How Can HBA Firmware Warnings and Incorrect Disk Ordering During a Fresh Install to V2.0.1 Reimage Be Resolved?

Applies to:

Big Data Appliance Hardware - Version All Versions and later
Big Data Appliance Integrated Software - Version 2.0.1 to 2.0.1 [Release 2.0]
Linux x86-64

Goal

If errors/warnings like those below are reported after a BDA V1.0.3 to V2.0.1 rack re-image:

WARNING: Insufficient disk controller firmware minor version : 0048
INFO: Minimum disk controller firmware minor version : 0079
ERROR: Wrong slot 11 mapping to HBA target : 0
INFO: Expected slot 11 mapping to HBA target : 11
ERROR: Wrong slot 10 mapping to HBA target : 1
INFO: Expected slot 10 mapping to HBA target : 10
ERROR: Wrong slot 9 mapping to HBA target : 2
INFO: Expected slot 9 mapping to HBA target : 9
ERROR: Wrong slot 8 mapping to HBA target : 3
INFO: Expected slot 8 mapping to HBA target : 8
ERROR: Wrong slot 7 mapping to HBA target : 4
INFO: Expected slot 7 mapping to HBA target : 7
ERROR: Wrong slot 6 mapping to HBA target : 5
INFO: Expected slot 6 mapping to HBA target : 6
ERROR: Wrong slot 5 mapping to HBA target : 6
INFO: Expected slot 5 mapping to HBA target : 5
ERROR: Wrong slot 4 mapping to HBA target : 7
INFO: Expected slot 4 mapping to HBA target : 4
ERROR: Wrong slot 3 mapping to HBA target : 8
INFO: Expected slot 3 mapping to HBA target : 3
ERROR: Wrong slot 2 mapping to HBA target : 9
INFO: Expected slot 2 mapping to HBA target : 2
ERROR: Wrong slot 1 mapping to HBA target : 10
INFO: Expected slot 1 mapping to HBA target : 1
ERROR: Wrong slot 0 mapping to HBA target : 11
INFO: Expected slot 0 mapping to HBA target : 0
ERROR: Big Data Appliance failed hardware validation checks

This indicates two problems:
1. incorrect disk drive ordering
2. disk controller firmware requiring update

This document provides steps to resolve

Solution

To correct the incorrect ordering of disk drives on each node:

1. Issue (as root) setup-root-ssh from node1.

# setup-root-ssh

2. Issue (as root) the MegaCli64 CfgLdDel command below on the primary node using the dcli command which will run the command on all the servers:

# dcli "MegaCli64 CfgLdDel L6 a0"

The next steps update the disk controller firmware version on each node:

3. Issue (as root) using the dcli command which will run the command on all the servers.

# dcli bdaupdatefw -l

4. Reboot all the servers as user root from node01. This step is very important. If not done then reimage rack will not work properly, since it will use the wrong device name for the internal usb. Make sure all servers have rebooted before proceeding.

# dcli reboot

5. Once all servers are rebooted and back up, (as user root from node01) invoke "reimagerack" again to setup the ISO base image on the BDA.

# ./reimagerack

See the following document for information on running this procedure "Oracle Big Data Appliance Base Image Version 2.0.1 (Doc ID 1513928.1)."

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