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[Yamahahahahaha]

Apologies its an M5110, but again adament it supports write back without a battery, im wondering whether I need to 'force' it to do this though. Trying to get LSI storage manager to see the card but because its an esxi 5.1 host it wont see it

Having done a bit of reading, you can force it to do write-back without the battery installed. By default it will say it's on but (Disabled).
There is an option for Always Write-Back, which will ignore whether or not you have the Battery installed. It may already be set...

 

[ashrobbo]

Ok chaps

Just incase anybody has a similar issue. As above you can force it on using Lsi MSM. I loaded this into a remote machine. Did a discover and the esxi server showed up but with ip of 0.0.0.0 when trying to connect it had an unable to connect to CIMOM error.

After reading some incredibly in descriptive articles all I needed to do is add the esxi FQDN and ip to the hosts file of the remote machine I was working on. Launching MSM (run as administrator) it found it and connected (had to connect twice to get it to show anything).

Went into virtual drive settings and write through was enabled but I also have an entry for BBU with a green tick, so maybe it does have a battery after all!!

Changed to write back and everything appears better. However no load on the box until tomorrow so we will see.

Thanks for the assistance

Ash

 

[gavind]

As above you can force it on using Lsi MSM

This is what I did and I was able to replicate this issue! Thanks.