Connection of sas Md3420

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• R720 can I connect drive sas/sata hard without controller card?

  I have a r720 without raid card.  When I plug a ssd or disc of 15 k / 10 k sas on the hotswap backplane, chassis recognizes the drive is connected (I get an orange light and lcd to alert that the disc is removed when I go out).  However, the bios and the operating system does not recognize any disks hotswap (they see only the optical drive connected to the ports on the motherboard sata.

  Do I need a controller card to use drives connected on the backplane, or is it possible to use backplane without controller card?  I didn't need raid functionality.

  Thanks in advance.

  -shane

  Hello Shane

  ntshane

  Do I need a controller card to use drives connected on the backplane, or is it possible to use backplane without controller card?  I didn't need raid functionality.

  Yes, you must have a controller connected to the bottom of basket. If you have purchased the system without a RAID controller should have a SAS cable that goes from the backplane to the slot of controller S110 chipset on the system board.

  You can use the S110 SATA controller on board for communication with backplane. Well, there are limits to the S110 controller, so may not suit your needs. You can probably buy LSI 9207 if you want readers to run in a non-RAID. The other options are a H710 PERC; which you can set the readers to the single drive RAID 0 s. In this State, they function as drives no RAID. You can also get a H310. The H310 supports the RAID mode, but we have added a few features to the H310 who do not find in previous versions of the card. In doing so, it reduced performance when operating in a mode non-RAID.

  The reason why I say that you'll probably want another controller than the S110 is because you mentioned that you have SAS disks. The S110 is a single SATA controller. In addition, the S110 is supported up to 4 discs.

  To access the BIOS RAID make sure the S110 is turned on in THE system BIOS. In the BIOS, go to SATA settings. In the menu choose the RAID mode. It will turn on the S110 controller. You can configure the drives in the BIOS S110 when booting with the CTL R. I do not know what operating system, you perform the installation, but the S110 is compatible with Windows.

  Thank you

• installed in R630 H730P how to connect the SAS drives?

  Hi, I installed the H730p in the server R630 RAID, but the SAS cables from the drive before A & B bays to connect to the main Board and having no game in them to connect to the RAID card.

  I guess I need new cable SAS, but can't find any reference to this anywhere... Do I new cables and what are the numbers of reference please?

  Thank you very much

  Pete

  Talleysit,

  Indeed, you need another cable. The required cable is part # F63HD.

  Let me know if it helps.

• Z210 and SAS HBA: those that will work?

  I have an Z210 with the processor E-1240 and 16 GB of RAM, Win7 64-bit.  I have a few hard drives SAS 15 K HP's and I want to install on this machine - but the Z210 has no integrated SAS controller. I discovered that there is an Avid Certified version of this computer, and it uses a controller LSI SAS SAS9200-8F to hang the external storage drives. LSI SAS9200 - 8 used to be available in a version of the internal interface (LSI SAS 9200-8i), but that is only apparently now deployed for IBM and there are no Windows 7 drivers.

  I want to install an INTERNAL SAS HBA. and I noticed that there is an older model, the LSI SAS3041e, which has drivers for Windows7 64-bit available. So, I think that this cheap SAS HBA could be a good candidate for my Z210.

  Has anyone any how SAS HBA in an Z210 properly installed? Specifically the SAS3041e LSA? I think that the issue could boil down to how you install drivers and access the HBA for the boot BIOS...

  DRM for your collective wisdom!

  Well, after much research, I decided that the LSI SAS3041-e (non-RAID) controller was a likely candidate. They are available on eBay for almost nothing.

  I just installed one in my Z210 and it was as easy as possible: Although the technical docs of LSI a several step process to load the drivers Windows 7 Pro 64-bit with Service Pack 1 installed, the drivers are already present in Windows 7 Pro. I plugged the controller, hooked to a pair of HP SAS 15 K disks and booted from the disc of Windows 7 HP system recovery.

  The controller immediately recognized Z210 installed the BIOS and I was off and running. Installation of Win 7 completed smoothly and when the machine finally started in a new Win 7 system, everything was fine and my two new hard drives SAS have been properly formatted and correctly recognized. You should be aware that you will need a pair of "bizarre" SATA cables to use these discs 'battleship-quality '. Cables have a conenctor unified at one end to connect the SAS drives, and the other end is a plain old SATA drive connector and a SATA power plug.

  Even if SAS 15 K drives are slightly slower than a disc of 6 GB/S SATA III, the practical speed difference is trivial, these drives have a superior quality construction regular SATA HD, I think.

• Relationship between SAS & Esxi

  Hello

  I have hard SAS Extore XJ-SA12-316R with 16 TB storage space, I have connected to my server HP (DL380 G5) with mini sas port and I want to use with Esxi V5.

  I have configured the raid 6 + 0 with two spare parts that format is NTFS GPT, I can not connect my SAS to ESXi, although I can't see any storage when I add on Esxi, but when I install just a windows 2008 R2 server on my server I can see SAS storage on disk management! Could you please tell me how to get communicate between SAS and Esxi? It makes me crazy!

  Try this, I tested it successfully;

  Copied the VIB for temp folder;

  ~ # ls - lh /tmp/
  -rw - r - r - 1 root root 24.8 k 9 December 2011 scsi-stex - 4.07.0000.75 - 1OEM.500.0.0.472560.x86_64.vib

  Install the VIB, by using the - v switch;

  
  

  ~ # software esxcli vib install v - /tmp/scsi-stex-4.07.0000.75-1OEM.500.0.0.472560.x86_64.vib
  Result of the installation
  Message: The update completed successfully, but the system must be restarted for the changes to be effective.
  Restart required: true
  VIBs installed: Promise_bootbank_scsi - stex_4.07.0000.75 - 1OEM.500.0.0.472560
  VIBs deleted:
  VIBs ignored:

  After a reboot, it is available;

  
  ~ List of the vib # esxcli software | grep stex

  Name Version Date seller installation acceptance level
  --------------------  ----------------------------------  -------  ----------------  ------------

  SCSI-stex 4.07.0000.75 - 1OEM.500.0.0.472560 promised VMwareCertified 2012-11-28

  I was also able to remove with success;

  ~ # software esxcli vib remove scsi-stex - n
  Result of deleting
  Message: The update completed successfully, but the system must be restarted for the changes to be effective.
  Restart required: true
  VIBs installed:
  VIBs removed: Promise_bootbank_scsi - stex_4.07.0000.75 - 1OEM.500.0.0.472560
  VIBs ignored:

  ... again, this requires a restart of the host.

  Post edited by: jrmunday - post reboot added control.

• Hosts disconnect during VMotion

  Hi guys, faced with a difficult problem with a cluster and could use some comments: we had issues where one of the hosts (random) enters a disconnected state. If you let it rest enough long IT will return itself. Restart the vcenter services seems to accelerate the process too. Last night I went to put hosts in maintenance mode (to apply the latest patches) and all sorts of bad things that happened. Got to the point where 2 guests are cranked out. So bad a situation that one of the hosts could not return in the cluster, and we had to stop the machines and save them again on the hosts in the cluster. (Pleasure at 03:00). VMware has been a bit confused last night with what was going on so I have to re - engage the next week. Any help / ideas would be very appreciated.

  Here is the material / details.

  -Execution 5.5 Build 2302651 (ISO specific Dell)

  -3 x Dell PowerEdge R730 [boot from Flash] (firmware completely up to date)

  -1 x Dell Powervault MD3420 12 GB SAS (two controllers) (current firmware) connectivity

  -There is a Dell PowerEdge R730XD directly connected to the MD3420 running Windows 2012R2 / Veeam 8.0 Update 1 for backups

  -We are not sure if Veeam could be the cause for it. Trying to get involved them. At the moment we have completely disabled Veeam.

  -A putty session to one of the disconnected hosts who had locked up for a restart of management agent came back as if by magic when a veeam replication job has been cancelled (a replicate a computer since the backup repository so I have no idea why that would be important)

  -Currently have DRS automation and control applications disabled to mitigate risk

  -Start to move workloads to another cluster to reduce the risk

  Well, after a lot of torture, here is the solution:

  -Drivers that Dell will ship with 5.5U2 latest ESX media are not good. You must use the latest VMWARE drivers for DIS3 12 GB host bus adapters.

  -After the pilot on 2 hosts rotation, I tried vmotion and could not reproduce the problem.

  -For good measure we have updated the MD3420 to 8.20 firmware which was mainly new features

  -VMWARE update latest version

  After this experience, we will make some changes to our deployment strategy in order to eliminate a problem like this before the cluster into production if all goes well. We have made several tests of vmotion and storage vmotion before going to the first time, but us did not grow it is quite difficult. Automated DRS kicks and tried once to spend a lot of things at the same time, it is when we started to see these questions. If we had put a lot of pressure on the cluster and observed the vmkernel logs we have observed the error messages.

  Couple all of this to try to migrate to Veeam, it makes it difficult to isolate. Once Veeam was arrested and the problems continue that it makes it a lot easier to focus our efforts.

  I hope that someone else that this encounter with the LSI solution (HP, Dell, IBM) will benefit from this thread.

• PowerVault TL2000 library - tape drive that appears twice in Device Manager

  Just installed a new TL2000 on a Dell R630 server. HBA SAS 6 GB/s using. Windows 2008 R2. In Device Manager I see two "unknown medium changer" and two tape drives (IBM ULT3580-HH4). But in reality there is a library and a player.

  Windows has allocated an id different SCSI for each 'drive' and 'change '. Does anyone know why Windows detects two devices when there is only one?

  (see the screenshot of the attachment)

  Hello Martin,

  Cable how do you have coming from the back of the tape drive?  If you connected a SAS cable to the two ports at the rear of the car, then it's your problem because you need only the disk IDE oucederomsurlesecondport be wired at the time.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• MD1200 initialization failed

  Hi all

  I have tried to connect my new MD1200 with poweredge R720 server, after installing the software manage open, I couldn't see MD1200 readers from the server.

  I have haveconnected the SAS cable on the server and storage

  Is this a firmware issue?
  The SAS HBA is currently PERC710 in server.
  Driver RAID and SAS driver is installed on the server.

  Can someone tell me the steps on how to connect and configure the MD1200 since R720 (Windows 2008 R2) Server
  Thanks in advance.

  Hi Paul,.

  Let me understand the situation.

  Mentioned that the MD1200 is connected to the R710 is detected to R710 Open Manage?

  RAID and SAS driver is installed on the server, server which is? R710 R720 or both?

  When you install the SAS HBA on R720, have you seen any prompt Ctrl-C in POST server? -Do you think that any device detected in the Windows Device Manager?

  Here are a few suggestions:

  (1) installed the card, start the server and make sure that the SAS HBA is detected in the R720

  (2) install the last handle Open, 7.2

  (3) stop the server and the MD

  (4) connect the SAS on the SAS HBA cables

  5) turn on the MD, wait some time, 1 minute.

  (6) turn on the server, make sure that SAS HBA is detected during POST

  (7) management control.

  This is a reference document MD facility: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_powervault/powervault-md1200_Setup%20Guide_en-us.pdf

• 5.1 ESXi does not see any number of logical unit after restarting both MD3220 and R820

  We restarted our host R820 ESXi 5.1 and table connected to SAS MD3220.  After the reboot, the HBA on ESXi shows no device.  We turned on the MD3220.  WAITED 5 minutes before feeding the R820.

  FYI... the complete Setup includes two R820 connected to two MD3220 through SAS.  The two R820 cannot see all devices on two HBAs after reboot.  We have redundant RAID controllers on the MD3220s and redundant HBA on the R820s.

  On the MD3220, the status of host interface ports appears.

  Anyone know this problem?

  We found the problem.  On the MD3220s, we noticed some "unidentified host identifiers.  For a reason unknown to us, the host port identifiers changed after turning power off and power on all R820s and MD3220s.  To resolve this problem, we replaced the identifiers.  It seems that someone swapped the SAS cables.  I don't think that someone made.

• C210 M2, questions RAID, impossible to see readers

  Hello

  We have a server C210 M2, unfortunately the LSI RAID controller was not in order.  We bought a LSI MegaRAID 9261 - 8i separately as well as 2 x 0.75 m SFF-8087 cables to connect x SAS 5 readers, that we have to the server.

  We cannot get the RAID card to recognize all readers.  They are loaded into the drive bays 1-5 and the two channels on the LSI card is connected to the ports ' discs 1-4 "and"disks 5-8"to the Board of Directors.". "  I assured the integrated controller is set to ENHANCED within the BIOS and tried the RAID card in several locations.

  The card LSI or different cables to the Cisco card brand?

  Thanks in advance

  AS

  I had situations similar to what your experience solved using the Cisco cable provided.

  R210-SASCBL-002 = Long for C210 SAS cable (connects to SAS Extender)

  Thank you

  Responsible Dan

• Installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 on Poweredge R820, where the hell are the drivers preinstall?

  I created a VD to install windows server 08. Readers are attached by the Bay before port hot swap, connected through SAS. Currently, it says that it can't find not all hard drives, I'm sure I need drivers preinstallation of the raid controller for the operating system to detect the drive but I can't find these drivers anywhere on the page list of the driver on http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/Product/poweredge-r820

  Anyone know where I can get the drivers? I checked the page twice and I can't find something that even alluded to preinstall drivers.

  What RAID SAS controller do you have?

  This will cover the H310 and H710 (using the "hard drive" version, run to extract before putting on optical/USB) - found under SAS-RAID/driver:

  www.Dell.com/.../PowerEdge-r820

  You can also use the deployment/installation embedded utility which can help to install an operating system, that includes drivers - F10 during POST.

• IBM DS3524 and raid

  Hello, I have to install a DS3524 connected to a server with VMWARE installedESX4.0.4Update4 IBM.
  The DS3524 is connected via SAS 12 are installed 300GB HD and 2 SD thecontroller is mounted in the cache of 2 GB.
  I wanted to know if you must configure a RAID6 11HD and 1HD immediate replacement and if I can then create a single logical unit of 9 x 300 = 2.7 to?
  Thank you

  Nice day

  There is, of course, ways around what appear to be limits.  You can have a "logical unit" more than 2 TB if you use extensions.  Go ahead and create a 2 TB LUN and a Go 700 LUN.  Add the 2 TB LUN as a data store, and then increase the size of the data store in the vSphere Client.  You should see your 700 GB available LUNS.  In the properties of the data store, you should see something similar to the screenshot below.

  

  And under Configuration > Storage, you will see the maximum available space is greater than 2 TB, as below.

  

  Of course, these screenshots are from a vSphere environment 5, but these fine vSphere 4 and VMFS-3 will be similar.  You will also always be limited to the size of 2 TB hard limit less 512 B.

  Let me note there are some arguments against the use of the extensions, but it's not like you will encounter such a scenario.  Check out this post for a demystification of VMFS myths, including the use of extensions: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/03/vmfs-best-practices-and-counter-fud.html

  See you soon,.

  Mike

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• MD3420 SAS connection to two servers R720 (2008 R2)

  Hello

  I was looking for some suggestions to my two servers for both see a table of MD3420 in the shared storage.  The idea of the preview is here: http://i.imgur.com/UeWyLvg.jpg

  Initial Setup was very easy.  I installed the Dell MD storage software.  MPIO is installed, as is the Manager of SAN storage.  I have been able to put an IP address for management on the Bay, you connect and create a disk group.    After that, I could see the numbers of identifier for the host two and made port mapping that seemed correct host.  Once I did, I expected the partition not formatted in disk management in Windows.  I don't know where to go from here.   I have updated firmware on the table, which went well.  I looked in the Storage Manager for the without and he sees the LUN (even if it says uknown number.)  Any help is appreciated.

  Additional information:

  OS: Windows 2008 R2 Standard

  Bus adapter: www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9300-8e.aspx

  PowerVault: MD3420 with a single SAS module card

  Thank you!

  I just spoke with Tech Support.  It seems that the problem is that there is no grouping installed between servers.  Unfortunately 2008R2 Standard does not support this, so it seems that we have to upgrade to the enterprise.

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• Connect a Powervault MD1200 to a PowerEdge R710 5.1 running esx using SAS cables

  Hello

  I bought a Powervault md1200 and a perc h800 controller.

  I'll install the perc controller in my PowerEdge r710 5.1 running esx server.

  Then connect the md1200 to the r710 via sas cables. The powervault is no NIC.

  My question is, how to configure the RAID while booting the r710? I understand that if I were on Windows, I could use open manage but I'm not familiar with how to do this from a 5.1 esx server.

  I'd appreciate any help.

  Thank you

  Flynn

  Hello Flynn,

  What you need to do is to go into the Bios of your H800 controller and you can then configure your virtual disk MD1200.  Once you have the virtual disk created, then you will be able to do a scan in ESX & he should see the virtual disk that are created.  To access the boot controller bios you need to hit Ctrl + C to enter the bios.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Connect 2 ESXi hosts to array SAS MD3220

  I have two R620s who go to the server as a host for the VM for several web servers (in a Windows NETWORK load balancing) and two other R620s which will be considered as physical database servers (in a Failover Cluster) and have to apply to a single Bay MD3220 SAS. The DB cluster will host the databases shared on a virtual disk and a data store shared on another virtual drive on the Bay. ESXi hosts will store their vmx/vmdk files elsewhere on the Board.

  I'm still waiting for delivery of the second DB server, but in the meantime, I installed the first and he speaks with success to the table - I run MDSM on that server and the server is successfully connected to DB and filestore volumes. guess I'm having a little problem with the second server.

  I installed ESXi on both VM hosts. I guess the next step is to save in MDSM, but MDSM is not automatically host port identifiers as assigned. Does?

  My next guess would be to identify manually port host identifiers, but how can I determine what are their respective IDs? I couldn't see anything obvious in the BIOS.

  I have currently two independent hosts to VM with ESXi installed v5.1 - I have not created a VM vCenter again because the host does not have access to the storage Bay (!), so I can pair together for HA hosts, etc. As a broader question, given what I want to achieve, how should I be going to this topic?

  Indeed, you will need to register the VMware hosts in MDSM yourself. There is no agent to have a VMware host register automatically on the SAN (at the regular difference in Windows and linux).

  You may be able to find the WWN of the HBA SAS in the SAS controller bios.

  The only other way I know not to register the correct WWN with the server is intrusive, but not so hard:

  -Stop your Windows (cluster SQL) servers

  -Stop the VMware servers

  -power of the MD3220 downwards

  -power up the MD3220

  -power up to one of the servers Windows (one that has MDSM on it)

  -power up the VMware Server 1

  In MDSM, you can now save this first VMware Server.

  Turn on the other 2 servers and register the 2nd VMware Server.

  I found that only shutting down 1 VMware server is not erase the memory of the MD whose WWNS are connected and there is no way to find which ports you enter the WWN in question.