Dell PowerEdgh R420 and PERC H710 mini RAID setup

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• read S.M.A.R.T. in PERC H710 Mini disc?

  Hello

  I have a few servers Dell R520 (all running Win 2012 64 bit) with the H710 Mini Raid PERC controllers inside.

  Is it possible to access/view S.M.A.R.T. attributes of their hard drives? Dell OpenManage Server Administrator can only tell info like "physical disk is OK" or "physical disk is Non-critical," which is not much. I want to see more details. I use on older machines Dell Crystal Info disc, but the R520, is not to see all readers (and other similar utilities, I tried were also blind).

  (OMSA is version 7.4.0 and hard drives have SMART)

  Any tips?

  Thank you

  Hello.

  We will be happy to advise.  The S.M.A.R.T error can be found on the BIOS OF THE controller on POST via CTRL-R. It is under the column PD Mgmt for physical disks.  Highlight each drive and see the right side of the screen for information about the number of errors. However, that's all he says.

  It is recommended to use the OMSA software to export the detailed log. The log file will be in the form of a text file and can be exported from the configuration options of the controller-level information. You can check the newspaper for "BADLBA" (bad logical addresses) or other sense key errors.

  Otherwise, the software will be asked the failed drive arriving at a certain limit of non correctable errors in which the player will then be marked as PREDICTIVE don't allow you replace before switching to offline mode, causing a degraded VD.

  Finally, it is built in the diagnosis of the USC F10.  Although it will not display the errors detailed by car, you can run the hard drive test accordingly for the General failure analysis.

• Reference DELL T420 - battery on PERC H710 adapter controller

  Hello

  I received a yellow warning

  Reference DELL T420 'Battery on PERC H710 adapter controller'

  What it means?

  What should I do?

  Order the new battery?

  It is a simple replacement mission?

  Is it essential?

  Update:

  test URL

  http://www.Dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN130018

  Have nothing, everything seems fine now...

  Thank you

  It is normal so he can make a full discharge of the battery as part of his learning cycle every 90 days. Make sure that this isn't that. If this isn't the case, the reason, give it 24 hours. If it is fully charged, update the system (including RAID firmware, driver first) firmware. If not fully charged yet or it reproduces quickly, then replace the battery - power down to replace.

• Updated full M610/620 PERC H310 Mini RAID 1 disk

  I have 8 servers in my M1000e chassis.  They have all two drives 146 GB in Raid-1.  Just got in a boat load of 600GO drives gently used off PE R630 servers who are re-designed in a laboratory.

  I would like to replace all the records with the largest, with minimal downtime and no data loss.

  Advice? Tips? Advice?  Everything would be extremely appreciated before I mess up and make + 400 users very angry with me...

  Hello.

  It is possible to perform this operation with minimal downtime. Ensure that you have a backup validates your data just to be safe. You can do this by deleting every old hard drive and replacing with 600 GB disk, one at a time. Let the new drive to rebuild completely before replacing the other. You can monitor the progress of the reconstruction in OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) if installed. Clear the foreign configuration if it appears on the disc, if the drive rebuilt and state LOAN ; assign as a Global hot spare.

  You will notice that the total capacity of the virtual disk (VD) will not 600GO, because there will be unused space on the disks. You will use the property capacity expansion (OCE) online from your controller to claim unused space. In OMSA, GB storage-> PERC H310-> virtual disk-> available-> Reconfigure tasks-> capacity and continue. Under RAID level, select RAID 1 and enter 100 to recover any space unused on the disks and continue. See schematic illustration below:

  

  

  Let me know if you need additional assistance.

• DELL PowerEdge R710 and PERC H700 RAID driver for WIn 2008 Std

  Hi all

  I have a DELL PowerEdge R710 with a controller RAID PERC H700.

  I try to install Windows 2008 Std 64 bit, but I can't find the driver. Even for the site web at support.dell.com. Can someone help me.

  THX in advance

  Even if you use a driver of 2008, it should at least recognize it, then you must be using the wrong driver or something wrong :)

  If you are installing 2008 R2, make sure that you use this file:

  If you install 2008 x 64, make sure that you use this file:

  With one, you must first unlock the .exe (right click on the .exe, properties, unlock), unzip / extract the files (run it and make a note of the default location), and then copy the 4 files on a CD, USB, etc., then when Windows tells you that he is not all hard disks, click on the link drivers load below to load the drivers from the media you have chosen.

• PowerEdge R720 and PERC H710

  For the life of me, I can't the controller to detect the physical disks. These are Dell brand discs. Any specific ideas of the BIOS settings, maybe I need to change?

  The box has been initially implemented RAID 10 on the S110 raid, but I removed that and tried with the software raid times off and on and still no luck.

  Don't see anything that would indicate a firmware issue, but:

  H710 PERC v21.0.2 - 0001

  BIOS v1.2.6

  Thank you!

  If you have not changed the cable then this is the problem. The willing S110 to a different connector than the PERC.

  

  In the diagram #24 is the S110 connector you are currently using. #22 is the PERC connector, you need to use now. Here are the part numbers for the cable:

  If you have the 2.5 "HDD backplane - MJCP4

  If you have the 3.5 "HDD backplane - MX3P7

• Initialization of the options in the system dell poweredge r610 with perc 6 / i raid controller

  Hello Sir,

  I have a new question on dell power edge, actually I wanted to know this server works on a raid configuration only and for the purpose of the security of the data, we are able to use a flash drive to object is initialized (os ex: esxi, linux, windows) server as well as data will be SAS and OS record store will be separated into a flash drive?

  Please clear my doubt... Thank you

  Thanks for the reply.

  Yes we do, the real problem is I want to start my server with flash drive, I don't want to use the hard drive for OS, HARD drive for storage and the flash drive for OS.

• Divide a virtual disk in two virtual disks PERC H710

  Hello guys,.

  -We have a server PowerEdge R720 with a PERC H710 Mini storage controller which has 8 drives 1 TB each of them.

  -We have created a virtual disc, which includes 8 physical disks configured in Raid 5.

  -We have installed Windows 2008 Server R2 and we got 4469 GB no allocated space that we cannot use due to the limitation of the disks of the Basic.

  

  What we really want to do is reclaim the unallocated space of the existing virtual drive and put it in a new one, so that we keep 3 disks for the virtual disk 0 and we use the 5 others for the new virtual disk 1.

  -Is that possible without destroying the data we have?

  -Help please!

  Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad English :(

  Unfortunately, there is no way to do it without restarting.

  Option 1

  What you have described, you could divide drives upward into distinct from VD, leaving a 2 TB or smaller for the operating system.  It will cost you a value of an extra disk to disk space (VD0 RAID 5 = 2 TB, VD1 RAID 5 = 4 TB).

  Option 2

  You can create "slices" on the disks - you still all 8 disks in a disk group, but you would cut a smaller VD for the OS, and then the rest of the disc space can be a VD for data (each VD will appear as a "separate" disk in Windows, so the second VFD can be converted to GPT and be as big as you want While the first VFD remains an MBR disk to boot into the operating system in BIOS mode.  This will give you return a value from an extra disk to disk space over Option 1 (VD0 RAID 5 = 100 GB, RAID 5 = 6.9 to VD1).

  Option 3

  You can switch mode UEFI, create a VD with all 8 disks (as you did), convert the GPT disk, then install.  UEFI is necessary at the start of the GPT disks and GPT is required for disks larger than 2 TB.  It would also keep 7 TB of usable disk space.

  You can also consider a RAID 6, if you can accept the value of another drive 1 TB of disk space.  Since a reconstruction of the drive may take 1 to 2 days or more, a RAID 6 would provide better tolerance to failures and protection during the vulnerable period that the disc is out of line or reconstruction.

• Dell R730xd with mode PERC H730 and RAID/HBA

  Hi all

  I have a new Dell R730xd with a PERC H730 card. I have six 4TB readers connected to it. It works very well in RAID mode, but the map also has support for the 'HBA' mode In other words, the card works like a basic HBA and disables the RAID functionality. When the HBA mode map software can see the disks, but they never make it through the operating system. Readers are not detected in the MESSAGE as no RAID and there is no option to convert them to no RAID.

  I talked about this through with technical support, which have been really helpful, but we can't find a solution. It seems to work on their server, but not mine.

  So I write here to see if anyone else uses this configuration, or to find out if anyone has had the same problem and maybe even resolved. Let me know!

  Thank you
  Tim.

  We had the same problem as well. I was able to solve the problem but doing a factory reset in the HBA. After the reset and reboot retype again HBA configuration and activate the HBA mode and your good.

• PERC 6 / I RAID Controller w/256 MB cache and battery

  Will be the PERC 6 / I RAID Controller w/256 MB cache and the drums work on a Dell Precision T7400?
  Randy

  Hello Randy,

  Yes, you can add an a PERC6 / i of your T7400 as the PERC card was optional addon for the machine. Please see the link below & see the tech specs where the cottage on PERC 6 / I as optional.

  http://www.Dell.com/us/DFB/p/precision-T7400/PD

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Reference Dell 2950 Perc 6/i Raid card device driver

  Good morning community, I'm trying to find the Dell 2950 Perc 6/i Raid adapter Device Driver for Windows 2008 R2 Standard OS. Thanks in advance for your help. Modem489

  You don't need to load a driver for the PERC 6 / i in Server 2008 or newer version, the driver is 'native' for Windows.  If you think that you need a driver, I suspect it is because you tried to install and it is not all discs.  If Yes, do not forget that PERC does NOT support RAID/JBOD, then you must configure disks to a virtual disk (VD, matrix RAID) before they can be presented to the OS.  It can be configured in the CTRL-R utility (be sure to check the boxes of progress/Initialize options too).

• R420 with PERC 710mini Server 2008 R2 assistance

  Hi all

  We have a Dell PowerEdge R420 here at work.

  There a PERC 710 mini in it. There are currently SAS 3 x 600GB disks in a RAID 5 array.

  I am trying to get Windows Server 2008 R2 installed, I have a legitimate drive with Serer 2008 R2 x 64 SP1 included, and of course when I try to install it it asks for drivers.

  I downloaded the drivers for the 710 put on a flash drive, Windows considers it and made use of it but the States while no new device could not be found.

  I used the service tag to get the drivers for the mini 710, so don't see is not how the pilot might not be correct.

  So here I ask assistance. I'm ready to break the table and re-create (give me the steps if you wish, incase I do something wrong).

  I will try all this.  The use of live server and works well, there were a few problems and the technician who was on the scene who told me it was the RAID controller. Dell came out and replaced the RAID controller and cable. Then, I took the site and now find myself with that. The data on the disks are not important for any not if he is retired.

  Use this link to download the driver, extract it to the USB key: http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER00713584M/1/SAS-RAID_Driver_M20VR_WN32_5.2.220.64_A02.EXE

  There are 2 pilots, one is for the installation of the inside of Windows, it is used during the installation from a USB key.

  Let me know.

  Kind regards

• Disabled option to create new VD - PERC H710

  I have 5 x 1 TB SATA RAID-5, works very well. My goal is to add new SAS drive 2 x 3 TB RAID-0 having.

  Two issues I found.

  1 - new record added shown State as foreign menu PD Mgmt.

  2 - the 'Create new VD' option is disabled or grayed out. Why?.

  Thank you.

  -Type of server Dell PowerEdge R720

  CONTRL - RAID PERC H710

  1. the foreign configuration must first be deleted. VD MGMT, F2, foreign, clear.

  2. create is disabled because the disks are foreign and not available for use.

• PERC H710 downloads?

  Page drivers and downloads for my T320 doesn't seem to understand anything for the Perc H710 RAID controller I.  I searched Dell support site and did not find a relevant page.

  Where can I find updated firmware to date and any other software that I might want to use to keep the controller to update?

  Thank you

  Andrew

  They are under SAS RAID.  Here is the firmware:

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/product/PowerEdge-T320?driverId=DK9F9&osCode=WS8R2&FILEID=3188832303&LanguageCode=en&CategoryID=SF

  What OS?

  Keep the OMSA (OpenManage Server Administrator) to update will inform you when the firmware/drivers are obsolete:

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/product/PowerEdge-T320?driverId=CWHRG&osCode=WS8R2&FILEID=3267736217&LanguageCode=en&CategoryID=SM

  (Download and run to extract the files, and then run C:\Openmanage\windows\setup.exe, add yourservernameoripaddress:1311 to the Intranet Zone of IE).

• R320 substituting PERC S110 for a PERC H710 - without loss of data

  I think of his replacement (added?) a H710 PERC our R320.  The vehicle currently has a S110 (software raid controller?).

  Play safe I'll have a complete bare metal backup.

  Is it possible to add a PERC H710 with my original two disks in RAID 1 and do not go through a complete reinstallation or backup recovery?

  It would make life so less irritating...

  Thanks in advance!

  Sincerely,

  Chris H.

  Hi cmhippy, yes you certainly would need back up you data, it is not possible to transfer RAID configurations of a software to a hardware RAID controller RAID controller.