{"id":1511,"date":"2014-04-16T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2018-05-23T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:57:38","slug":"upgrading-the-x9srh-7tf-lsi-hba-2308-and-lsi-hba-9207-8i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading the X9SRH-7TF LSI HBA 2308 and LSI HBA 9207-8i"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a resume on how to upgrade the LSI HBA 2308 Chipset<\/strong> on the Supermicro X9SRH-7TF<\/strong> and a LSI SAS2 HBA 9207-8i\u00a0<\/strong>card to the latest BIOS & Firmware using the UEFI mode. This is applicable to my homelab Supermicro X9SRH-7TF<\/a> or any other motherboard with UEFI Build-In EFI Shell.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve found that using the UEFI mode to be more practical than the old method of a MSDOS bootable USB key. And this is the way more and more Firmware and BIOS will be released.<\/p>\n

Tom and Duncan showed you last week how to\u00a0upgrade an LSI 9207-4i4e from within VMware vSphere 5.5 CLI<\/a>. In this article I\u2019m going to show you how to use the UEFI Shell for the upgrade.<\/p>\n

Preamble.<\/h3>\n

Since last week, I have been running the PernixData FVP<\/a>\u00a0(Flash Virtualization Platform) 1.5 solution on my two ESXi hosts, and I have found that the LSI HBA 2308 on the motherboard had a tendency to drop all the Drives and SSDs under heavy I\/O load. I did upgrade last week the LSI HBA 2308 from the original Phase 14 Firmware to Phase 16, but that didn’t solve the issue. \u00a0Unfortunately I have not yet found on the Supermicro Support site, a newer release of the Firmware Phase 18 or BIOS for the embedded adapter.<\/p>\n

So I dropped in the box another LSI HBA 9207-8i<\/strong> adapter, which is also based on the LSI 2308 chip<\/strong>. And low and behold, my two LSI adapter seemed to have nearly the exact same Firmware & BIOS.<\/p>\n

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Well if they LSI Embedded HBA and the LSI 9207-8i are nearly identical and with the same chipset… who knows if I burn the Firmware & BIOS on the motherboard…<\/p>\n

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Preparation.<\/h3>\n

First you need to head over to the LSI website for the LSI 9207-8I and download a few files to a local computer. For the\u00a0LSI HBA 9207-8i\u00a0<\/a>you can jump to the\u00a0Software Downloads<\/a>\u00a0section. You want to download three files, extract them and put the files on a USB key.<\/p>\n