UCS: After installing or replacing DIMMs shown as disabled in UCS Manager(invalid FRU)

29 Nov

Here is a problem that you can see when replacing or installing new DIMMs in UCS Blades.
Although the blade will boot but the newly installed DIMMs might show as disabled with invalid FRU error:
Error codes F0844 and F0502 are logged:

When you check inventory of the blade and go into Memoery you’ll see that Capacity and Clock are Unspecified.

SSH into UCSM IP.
Type:
scope server x/y  (where x is your chassis id and y is server id of the server that is having problems.)
show memory  (this list memory information of the blade)
Server 1/1:
Array 1:
DIMM Location Presence Overall Status Type Capacity (MB) Clock

—- ———- —————- ———————— ———— ————- —–
1 DIMM_CPU1_A0 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
2 DIMM_CPU1_A1 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
3 DIMM_CPU1_A2 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
4 DIMM_CPU1_A3 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
5 DIMM_CPU1_B0 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
6 DIMM_CPU1_B1 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
7 DIMM_CPU1_B2 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
8 DIMM_CPU1_B3 Equipped Operable Undisc 16384 1067
9 DIMM_CPU1_C0 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
10 DIMM_CPU1_C1 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
11 DIMM_CPU1_C2 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
12 DIMM_CPU1_C3 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
13 DIMM_CPU1_D0 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
14 DIMM_CPU1_D1 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
15 DIMM_CPU1_D2 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown
16 DIMM_CPU1_D3 Equipped Identity Unestablishable Disabled Undisc Unknown Unknown

As you can see 8 DIMMs cannot be identified
If you want more detailed information about memory then type:
show memory detail
You’ll see something like this:

ID 21:
Location: DIMM_CPU1_C0
Presence: Equipped Identity Unestablishable
Overall Status: Disabled
Operability: Operable
Visibility: No
Product Name:
PID:
VID:
Vendor: NO DIMM
Vendor Description:
Vendor Part Number: NO DIMM
Vendor Serial (SN): NO DIMM
HW Revision: MARIN
Form Factor: Dimm
Type: Ddr3
Capacity (MB): Unknown
Clock: Unknown
Latency: 0.800000
Width: 29024

To try to fix the issue here the first thing you need to do in this case is Update Capability Catalog of UCSM. It could be that the newly installed memory is too new for UCSM to recognize.
Here is a post How to Update Capability Catalog. After updating the Capability Catalog decommission and recommission the blade or you can reseat blade or reset the slot where the blade is.
If updating Capability Catalog does not help then it could be that you are hitting Cisco bug  CSCtu16549According to bug details upgrading to UCS firmware 2.0(4a) or higher should fix the problem.

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3 Responses

  1. Tomek B says:

    Hi,
    nice blog, good and very interesting topics, for sure I’ll be here more often.

    Thanks and looking forward,
    -Tomek

  2. Andrew Calhoun says:

    The How to update the Capability Catalog instructions point to the page where you can download a lot of different versions of the capability catalog. Do you just download the latest version? If not, how do you know which one?

    • Andrius says:

      The catalog must be from the same major release as UCSM.
      If UCSM is 2.1(1b) than capability catalog must be 2.1(any number here). It will not accept 2.2(any number here)

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