Dell UCSE 900, UCSF-1000, UCSN-1000 Service Manual

Dell EMC Host Bus Adapter User's Guide

HBA330 and External 12 Gbps SAS HBA

Regulatory Model: UCSE 900, UCSF-1000, UCSN-1000

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2018 - 09

Rev. A04

Contents

1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................5

Dell HBA card specications............................................................................................................................................. 7

Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................8

Related documentation..................................................................................................................................................... 8

2 Features........................................................................................................................................................ 9

LED Port activity................................................................................................................................................................9

3 Dell EMC HBA enclosure support................................................................................................................. 10

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using HII............................................................................................................................ 10

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using iDRAC......................................................................................................................10

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Windows................................................................................................................. 10

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Linux.........................................................................................................................11

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using VMWare...................................................................................................................11

Multipathing for the Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ...............................................................................................................11

Clustering with Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ...................................................................................................................... 13

4 Deploying Dell HBA cards............................................................................................................................. 14

Removing a 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller......................................................................................................................14

Installing a 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller........................................................................................................................ 15

Cabling a 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller installed on host server to the storage enclosure......................................16

Removing the HBA330 adapter card............................................................................................................................. 17

Installing the HBA330 adapter card................................................................................................................................18

Removing the HBA330 MMZ adapter card.................................................................................................................. 19

Installing the HBA330 MMZ adapter card.................................................................................................................... 20

Removing the HBA330 MX adapter card......................................................................................................................21

Installing the HBA330 MX adapter card........................................................................................................................22

Removing the HBA330 mini monolithic controller....................................................................................................... 23

Installing the HBA330 mini monolithic controller..........................................................................................................24

5 Driver installation.........................................................................................................................................26

Creating the device driver media...................................................................................................................................26

Downloading drivers from the Dell support website..............................................................................................26

Downloading drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools Media ............................................27

Windows driver installation............................................................................................................................................. 27

Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation.................................................. 27

Installing the driver after Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation .......................................................27

Updating the Dell HBA controller driver for existing Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer............................. 28

Linux driver installation....................................................................................................................................................29

Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMOD support..................................................................29

Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMP support.....................................................................29

Contents

6 BIOS Conguration Utility........................................................................................................................... 30

Entering the BIOS Conguration Utility........................................................................................................................ 30

Exiting the Conguration Utility.....................................................................................................................................30

Setting boot volume.........................................................................................................................................................31

7 Human Interface Infrastructure conguration utility.................................................................................... 32

Entering the HII conguration utility.............................................................................................................................. 32

Exiting the HII conguration utility.................................................................................................................................32

Selecting the Boot device in HII conguration utility...................................................................................................32

Selecting physical disk drive operations in HII Boot device.................................................................................. 33

Navigating to the Dell HBA conguration utility...........................................................................................................33

Controller management ............................................................................................................................................33

Managing physical disk drives........................................................................................................................................ 34

Viewing physical disk drive properties.....................................................................................................................34

Selecting physical disk drive operations..................................................................................................................35

8 Updating the rmware.................................................................................................................................36

9 Getting help.................................................................................................................................................37

Contacting Dell................................................................................................................................................................. 37

Documentation feedback................................................................................................................................................37

Locating service tag of your system..............................................................................................................................37

Contents

Overview

The Dell EMC Host Bus Adapter (HBA) card family consists of the Dell HBA330 MMZ, Dell HBA330 MX, Dell 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller, Dell HBA330 adapter card and Dell HBA330 mini monolithic card.

• Dell 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller: The Dell 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller is a HBA that provides physical disk drive interface with noRAID capability and is available in low-prole and full-height form factors for external storage. This is a part of the Dell Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) controller solutions family.

Figure 1. Features of 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller

SAS-external cable connector 2 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller

3 heat sink

• Dell HBA330: The card is available in adapter (low prole and full height) and mini monolithic form factors.

Overview 5

Figure 2. Features of Dell HBA330 adapter card

Dell HBA330 adapter 2 heat sink

3 SAS-cable connector

Figure 3. Features of Dell HBA330 mini monolithic card

heat sink 2 Dell HBA330 mini monolithic card

• Dell HBA330 MX: The Dell HBA330 is a member of the MX7000 family of controllers, and is used to interface with the internal drives.

Overview

Figure 4. Features of Dell HBA330 MX adapter card

1 heat sink 2 release lever

3 SAS-cable connector

• Dell HBA330 MMZ: The Dell HBA330 MMZ is a member of the MX7000 family of controllers and is used to interface with the drives located in the MX5016 storage enclosure.

Figure 5. Features of Dell HBA330 MMZ adapter card

Mezzanine connector 2 release lever

3 heat sink

Topics:

• Dell HBA card specications

• Supported operating systems

• Related documentation

Dell HBA card specications

The table below lists and describes the Dell HBA card specications.

Table 1. Dell HBA card

Feature Dell HBA (12 Gbps SAS HBA and HBA330 cards)

Enclosures per port 4 enclosures per port (12 Gbps SAS HBA only)

Processor Dell Adapter SAS I/O controller, 8-port with LSI 3008 chipset

Battery Backup Unit No

specications

Overview 7

Feature Dell HBA (12 Gbps SAS HBA and HBA330 cards)

Non-Volatile cache None

Cache policy No

Drives Types 3 Gbps SATA, 6 Gbps SATA/SAS, and 12 Gbps SAS

PCIe Support Generation 3

Non-RAID or pass through mode Yes

SAS and SATA technology Yes

NOTE: SATA is not supported on the Dell HBA330 MMZ and 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller cards.

Boot support Yes

Queue depth 9548

Supported operating systems

The Dell HBA controller supports the following operating systems:

• Microsoft

– Windows Server 2012 R2

– Windows Server 2016

• VMware

– ESXi 6.5 update 1

– ESXi 6.7

NOTE

: The 12 GBPS SAS HBA driver for VMware ESXi is bundled with the VMware ISO image available from Dell. For more

information, see Dell.com/virtualizationsolutions.

• Linux

– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9

– Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5

– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 12.3

• Ubuntu

– Ubuntu 16.04.4

– Ubuntu 18.04

Features

Dell HBA cards support the following features.

LED Port activity

The 12 Gbps SAS HBA controller is equipped with port activity or status LEDs. The LEDs enable you to quickly determine the status of an external SAS port. Each x4 connector has its own set of LEDs.

NOTE: The HBA330 card does not have LED port indicators.

The following table describes the color of the LEDs and corresponding SAS port state.

Table 2. x4 Connector LEDs Description

LED Color SAS Port State

O Indicates one of the following:

• Power is o.

• Port has been reset.

• Either all links in the port are disconnected or the cable is disconnected.

Green All links in the port are connected and functional.

Amber One or more links in the port is not connected. This is applicable only in a

wide port conguration.

Features 9

Dell EMC HBA enclosure support

When set up for multipath systems, the HBA330 MMZ and the 12 Gbps SAS controllers may access physical drives through multiple paths to provide redundancy and load balance to the drives. However, the controller does not manage these paths; this function is controlled by the multipath layer in the host operating system. As a result, in a multipath conguration, each separate path to a drive is treated as an independent drive and a single drive may be presented in the operating system as multiple drives. In order to avoid complications from having multiple paths to a drive, path management software is necessary to map these multiple paths to the same single drive. This section will cover multipath management options for dierent operating systems and management interfaces.

Topics:

• Dell EMC HBA multipathing using HII

• Dell EMC HBA multipathing using iDRAC

• Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Windows

• Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Linux

• Dell EMC HBA multipathing using VMWare

• Multipathing for the Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ

• Clustering with Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using HII

The 12Gbps SAS controller does not map multiple paths together in HII. As a result, each drive with more than one path is listed twice with dierent drive enumerations. The HBA330 MMZ maps the two paths to the drives together in HII. Under Device Conguration, select the HBA controller. Under Physical Disk Management > View Physical Disk Properties, select the physical disk to determine whether it has multiple paths. If the physical disk ID has the letter M next to it, the disk has multiple paths that are connected to the system.

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using iDRAC

iDRAC 9 will map paths together for the drives managed by the controller. In iDRAC, you will see each physical drive presented once on the Storage Conguration page. To determine if your drive is in a multipath conguration, select Storage > Enclosures and expand the enclosure that is in a redundant path setup. iDRAC 8 lists the paths separately, so each drive in a multipath conguration will be listed multiple times.

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Windows

To enable Multipath I/O (MPIO) for Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016:

1 Open the Server Manager.

2 Under Manage, select Add Roles and Features.

3 Follow the steps in the Add Roles and Features Wizard until you reach the Features step. Then, select the Multipath I/O feature for

installation.

4 Complete the steps in the Add Roles and Features Wizard to complete the installation.

5 In the Server Manager, select Tools > MPIO.

6 Under the Discover Multipaths tab, select the Add support for SAS devices option and select Ok.

Restart the system.

7 To check that MPIO is enabled and managing the HBA Drives, open Device Manager and select Disk Drives.

10 Dell EMC HBA enclosure support

Drives that are accessible are now listed as a Multipath Disk Device.

8 Right-click on a multipath disk and select Properties.

9 Click on the MPIO. You can set MPIO policies and check whether both the paths to the drive are active. If congured properly, both

the paths will display Active/Optimised under the This device has the following paths section. If only one path is listed, check the system storage assignment and hardware conguration.

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Linux

For information about conguring Dell EMC HBA multipathing using Linux, see the Linux administration documentation. To check for multipath status, use the Multipath-l commands to display path information.

Dell EMC HBA multipathing using VMWare

ESXi by default provides the VMWare Native Multipathing Plug-In, which automatically maps paths and manages drives in a multipath conguration. For more information, refer to the VMWare documentation on NMP.

Multipathing for the Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ

The HBA330 MMZ is the HBA controller for the PowerEdge MX740c and MX840c compute sleds. It is used as an interface in a multipath topology with the MX5016s storage sled for the MX7000 modular system. The following illustration displays the multipath topology for the PowerEdge MX7000.

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Figure 6. Multipath topology for the MX7000 modular system

In this diagram, the HBA330 MMZ resides in the compute sled, and functions as an interface to the SAS topology of the MX7000. The HBA330 MMZ connects to a pair of MX5000 SAS I/O modules (IOMs) that manage connections between the compute and storage sleds in the MX7000. For more information on conguring drive assignments, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Modular User's Guide.

NOTE

: The I/O modules cannot be congured independently.

The HBA330 MMZ is connected to the SAS IOM, which in turn connects to one of the SAS expanders in the storage sled. The expander in the storage sled is then connected to all the drives in the storage sled, providing one path between the HBA330 MMZ, therefore, and a drive in the storage sled. With connections to both SAS IOMs, the HBA330 MMZ has two paths to each drive in a storage sled, allowing for a multipath conguration. If either a SAS IOM or a SAS expander in the storage sled is removed, then a path to the drive is removed from the SAS topology.

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