FlexFlash Mirror with firmware 2.2 Can I mirror SD card 1 to SD Card 2 nondestructively?

[vkelly210]

I have B200 M3 series Blades with ESXI 5.1 loaded on UCS-SD-16G 16GB SD Card module, I have since upgraded chassis and blade firmware to latest version 2.2 and installed a second UCS-SD-16G 16GB SD Card module in each blade

My question is Can I mirror SD card 1 to SD Card 2 nondestructively thereby preserving my esxi installation which is in production on SD Card 1? Or do I have to create scrub policy and then create raid 1 mirror and reload hypervisors

Thanks

[Walter Dey]

The FlexFlash controller does not support RAID-1 sync (mirror rebuild). If the SD cards are in a degraded

RAID state, or if any metadata errors are reported by the controller, you must run the FlexFlash scrub

policy to pair the cards for RAID. For more information about the FlexFlash scrub policy, see

Scrub

Policy, on page 437

. The following conditions might result in degraded RAID or metadata errors:

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Inserting a new or used SD card in one slot, when the server already has an SD card populated in

the second slot.

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Inserting two SD cards from different servers.