We have 122 mira hosts. Some serve as vpshosts hypervisors and some serve as OSD nodes in the longrunningcluster. The remaining nodes are used as baremetal testnodes.

See the [long-running-cluster] and [vps_hosts] groups in ceph-sepia-secrets Ansible inventory to see what systems are used for.

The latest firmware for ARC-1222 controllers can be obtained from here.

The latest firmware for ARC-1880 controllers can be obtained from here.

My process for flashing ARC-1222 firmware manually is below. This assumes you've downloaded and extracted the firmware zip. The same process can be used for other Areca controllers. Just use the proper firmware BIN files.

scp /home/dgalloway/BIOS/areca/ARC1212_1222/ARC1212* ubuntu@$host.front.sepia.ceph.com:/home/ubuntu/
ssh $host
sudo -i
for file in $(ls /home/ubuntu/ARC1212*.BIN); do cli64 sys updatefw path=$file; done
for file in $(ls /home/ubuntu/ARC1212*.BIN); do rm $file; done

Erasing a RAID and setting controller to JBOD mode

cli64 set password=0000
cli64 vsf delete vol=1
cli64 rsf delete raid=1
cli64 sys mode p=1

Stop Beeper

Parameter: <p=<0(mute)|1(disabled)|2(enabled)»

cli64 set password=0000
cli64 sys beeper p=0