Replacing Hard Drives Or Solid State Drives - Cisco UCS S3260 Service Manual

Installing or Replacing System Components

Replacing Hard Drives or Solid State Drives

This section includes the following topics:
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4K Sector Format Drives Considerations
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Setting Up Booting in UEFI Mode in the BIOS Setup Utility
Use a web browser and the management IP address of the system to log into the Cisco IMC GUI
Step 1
management interface.
Select Compute and then Server 1.
Step 2
Click Launch KVM to open a virtual KVM window for the server node.
Step 3
In the Launch KVM dialog, select Server 1 and click Launch.
Step 4
Reboot server node 1. Watch the KVM window for the prompt to press F2.
Step 5
Enter the BIOS setup utility by pressing the F2 key when prompted during bootup.
Step 6
Go to the Boot Options tab.
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Set UEFI Boot Options to Enabled.
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Under Boot Option Priorities, set your OS installation media (such as a virtual DVD) as your
Step 9
Boot Option #1.
Go to the Advanced tab.
Step 10
Select LOM and PCIe Slot Configuration.
Step 11
Set the PCIe Slot ID: HBA Option ROM to UEFI Only.
Step 12
Press F10 to save changes and exit the BIOS setup utility. Allow the server to reboot.
Step 13
After the server reboots and the OS installs, verify the installation:
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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server Chassis Installation and Service Guide
3-16
Replacing HDDs or SSDs in the Internal Drive Compartment, page 3-18
Replacing Hard Drives in the Optional Disk Expansion Tray, page 3-21
Replacing SAS/SATA Solid State Drives in the Rear Panel Bays, page 3-23
You must boot 4K sector format drives in UEFI mode, not legacy mode. See
UEFI Mode in the BIOS Setup Utility, page 3-16
IMC GUI, page 3-17.
Do not configure 4K sector format and 512-byte sector format drives as part of the same RAID
volume.
Operating system support on 4K sector drives is as follows: Windows: Win2012 and Win2012R2;
Linux: RHEL 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.0, 7.2; SLES 11 SP3, and SLES 12.
ESXi/Vmware is not supported.
The 6 TB drives have 4096-byte sectors. VMware ESXi does not support this capability and
therefore will not work with 6 TB drives.
Enter the BIOS setup utility by pressing the F2 key when prompted during bootup.
Go to the Boot Options tab.
Under Boot Option Priorities, verify that the OS you installed is listed as your Boot Option #1.
Chapter 3
or Setting Up Booting in UEFI Mode in the Cisco
Maintaining the System
Setting Up Booting in