Expanding RAID 10 on Dell R730 with Perc h730P

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• Server Dell r610 with PERC 6 / i controller

  Hello

  M using dell r610, which is configured with PERC6 / i controller, problem is I want to know when I configured the RAID-0 and remove my disk only, fails to get the boot, how to solve this problem?

  Once again, I want to know:

  1. with the raid configuration are we able to expand the size of the disk (from 2 TB to 3 TB) without lossing data

  2 are we able to use this server with No.-raid because raid will be risky in the case of a disk failure and won't lose data...?

  ((1-Yes, you can, but ONLY if 1) your system is currently in UEFI boot mode and 2) you are not currently using a RAID 10 (or have several bays on the disks).

  2 n ° on PERC 6 does not support the RAID/JBOD. RAID is ONLY risky if the USER chooses a risky RAID level (RAID 0 should be used for specific reasons by experienced professionals).

  RAID 0 has NO fault tolerance.

• Reference Dell r710 with Perc 6 / i

  Hi all, I'm new and I have a question / an interesting situation.

  I work at a place that has a side job and other corresponding testing of all 100% server hardware.  No not the internet key equipment and we can not use Dell openmanage, I know: (.)  Sometimes our side test was "played" with so that it becomes a bit different and we need to match the side work again.  So to make them the same as we want to be able to shoot one of the servers work drives RAID 1 it pop in the test part and rebuild tests disks RAID 1 hard sides.

  I tried this and it's not well.  I'm looking for the best way to do it?  You cannot use either of imaging software.  :(

  When I tried this, I pulled on all sides of tests of hard drives and fallen into one of the RAID1s on the side work.  Then I said yes to "import foreign disks" then I booted into the operating system and fell in one of the tests sides other readers thinking he would rebuild it, but it didn't.  I guess it's because it was still part of the former RAID1 VDs?  in any case, I then rebooted the testing server, deleted the old disks hard foreign config thinking the controller THEN let me rebuild on it, but still NOT!  I'll have to 'replace' the hard drive.  What I am doing wrong?  Is there a good way to do it?

  Thank you!!!

  -Thomas

  Disks using as as a replacement for a "backup" was never part of its design, but the process of moving the disks to a new controller is fully supported:

  1. CTRL-R start
  2. Remove the VD
  3. Power off
  4. Remove the old disks
  5. Insert the new drive
  6. Power on
  7. IMPORT the foreign configuration
  8. Insert the drive to rebuild... HOT!
  9. CTRL-R start
  10. CLEAR foreign config
  11. Assign the drive as a hot spare to begin to rebuild

  Curious to know your limits - no OMSA, no imaging software?

• Additional disk on Dell R710 with PERC 6i controller

  I want to add an additional drive to an existing 5 RAID.  Can I do this without destroying the data?  If so, what is the procedure.

  Thank you

  You must CLEAR the foreign configuration on the first disc (storage, PERC, Information/Configuration, foreign/Clear in list dropdown controller). After compensation, it will show as a LOAN.

• How many berries is compatible with PERC H730P controller?

  The H730P controller supports RAID 10 dies in car 4 x 4?

  Hello

  sandy98g

  The H730P controller supports RAID 10 dies in car 4 x 4?

  Yes

  The limits on the H730 exceed most of the hardware configurations. The H730 supports up to 64 virtual disks, you could theoretically have 64 x 4 disk RAID 10 s.

  There are length of scope and limits of disk to consider as well, but this configuration is not near any limitation of the controller.

  Thank you

• 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.

• Online capacity expansion (OCE) with Perc 6 / i and omconfig

  Hello

  I have a server R710 PE with a PERC6 / i controller.

  I have a RAID 5 with 4 disks and now I need to expand available space.

  I replaced the old records of a 1 TB and enabled the RAID rebuild. I now have a RAID5 with 1 TB of the TB 2 available.

  I read that I could use to extend the RAID OMSA webinterface or omconfig command.

  In the web interface does not exist to "reconfigure" under System--> Storage--> PERC 6 / i--> virtual disks,--> RAID5. OMSA v7.1.0

  I then turned to the omconfig and found that something like this should work:

  / opt/Dell/srvadmin/bin/omconfig storage controller vdisk = 0 vdisk = 1 raid = r5 pdisk = 0:0:2, 0:0:3, 0:1:4, 1:0:5 action = reconfigures size = max
  but she translates:
  Invalid size setting: reconfiguring size cannot be specified by the user on this controller.

  Even if the PERC6 / i supports Online Capacity Expansion according to the documentation.

  Then I tried to use 'vdcapacityexpansion = yes sizeinpercent = 100' even though it is specified that only the H700 and H800 controllers support this. Of course it failed but where do I go from here?

  I have even 4 unused TB of disk space. Wouldn't be an idea to try to remove one disk and reset or is it at the level of the vdisk that change is necessary?

  Concerning

  Bo Riis

  This is not how Online Capacity Expansion works; It works by adding disks to the existing RAID, no replacement of discs with the largest.  For example, you could expand your RAID 5 4x1TB to a disc-5 (or more) RAID 5 by adding and reconfigure the table with other drives of 1 TB or more (even if only 1 TB would be used).  The only thing you can after replacement/repair of disks is individually create a second table on the disks (called slicing); It will appear to the OS as a new/entity 'drive '.

• PowerEdge R530 - expand Raid 5 by adding disks

  I have a R530 PowerEdge with Perc H330 mini with currently 3, 300GB sas hard drives configured as a virtual disk.  VMWare ESXi 6 is installed with a couple of running virtual machines and I'm out of room.  I installed a Supplement 3 of the exact same hard drives and wants to expand the virtual disk with 2 of the discs and the other as a spare drive.  Using OMSA I put the hot spare, however before you reconfigure the virtual disk, let me know if I'm doing it correctly.

  Within the OMSA.

  (1) select my virtual drive, select "reconfigure" and run

  (2) (check two additional disks to add to the virtual disk, press to continue (step 1 of 3))

  (3) raid level default switch to Raid-0 for RAID-5 current and desired and press continue (step 2 of 3)

  (4) check the settings and click Finish (step 3 of 3)

  I can do this without closing to the right of my VM?  This will not destroy my data this?  I have backup, but would prefer not to have to restore.

  Thanks to confirm or point out my mistakes.

  Yes, it is intended to make online and is non-destructive.

• Size of the disk Dell R730 RAID5 and C for Windows OS

  I bought Dell R730 server with 1.2 x 4 HDD to.

  It comes with RAID 5 fault with two logical volumes, 1.8 & 1.3 to each. When I install Windows 2008 R2 operating system, I have two partitions C 1.9 TB with D = 1.6 TB

  Why this raid is defined this way? Is it possible for me to destroy the default raid and set a new raid5 like 1.4 TB x 4 HARD drive as a single raid volume?

  Hello

  Yes, you can delete the virtual disks in the controller and create a large virtual drive. In the system configuration, make sure it is set to UEFI boot and not the BIOS boot mode. It is necessary to boot a plu virtual disk of 2 TB.

• BSOD drives when adding T110 ii with PERC H200 and SBS 2011 or Server 2008 R2-

  Bought the server next in November 2011

  PowerEdge T110 II

  ManufDate: 24/10/2011 market: 06/11/2011
  RAM: 16 GB (4 x 4) 1333 mhz UDIMM DualRanked
  Processor: Xeon E3-1270 3.4 Ghz, 8 M cache, Turbo, Quad Core/8 t (80W)
  RAID: Map Perc H200
  Drive: 2 x 600GB 15K RPM SCSI 6Gbps 3 .5in - RAID 1 Mirror SA
  SBS 2011 standard x 64 (works on Win 2008R2)

  SBS 2011 installed without a problem and the server works perfectly since December 2011.  Backups occurring twice per day to a USB attached hard drive external 1.5 to and OS patches applied on a monthly basis without problem.

  Company need more storage so it wanted to add 2 drives more (same spec as to purchase). I thought to try to turn the RAID 1 pair in RAID 10 set in order to keep the simple logical configuration (a single large logical volume which now seems to be 1.2 TB in size instead of 600 GB) - could get but not really someone to describe if it could be done for non-destructive way that requires not the complete system installation/restoration - so opted for just add the 2 new drives as a RAID extra 1 pair in order to not reach a stable, boot, partition operating system running on the current RAID 1 pair.

  Contracted for the Dell technician to come out to install 2 new readers, be clear that the service was not complete until I had an extra pair of RAID 1, appearing as a usable operating system.

  Technician arrived, installed readers, set the new RAID pair in the H200 configuration utility, rebooted the system and when the BONES began to load had a blue screen BSOD. Technician then disconnected drives newly associated (the level of the cables) to see if the system would boot - BSOD again on restart (both of now get us this "pleated" feel if you know what I mean). Then went into the raid configuration utility, removed the new raid 1 volume (which, by the way, is appeared above the one existing in the list - which is not very intuitive that one that has been added is Volume 1 and the existing old is Volume 2 in the utility). After the triple-checking that we had the right volume (it showed that 8% initialized over the other which was complete, as well as the corresponding drive port numbers), we have REMOVED the new volume (at this point I don't remember if we had replaced the cables for the readers to perform this action).

  At startup the system rebooted normally - we were all so relieved, don't talk over retries at the moment.

  Talk to Dell there seems to be a problem with the PERC H200 firmware or drivers. Has not affected the config initial of a single pair of RAID 1, however caused problems when you attempt to add another pair. Escalation of Dell support said that has happened several times with Windows 2008 (which comes from the SBS 2011) systems. They recommended that the firmware update and the PERC H200 card drivers.

  I turned to the technician and asked when we could plan the updates of the firmware and driver and told him that they wouldn't do that (not sure that I blame the poor guy, he was sweating bullets after the BSOD 2nd).  I explained that we have contracted for installation services which included ensuring that the pair of extra disk appeared also usable for the operating system and he said that I needed to talk to Dell that.

  You wanted to post information on issues with PERC H200 BSOD when adding disks on Win2008 (or SBS 2011).

  Waiting for response from Dell as to who will come on-site to complete the installation.

  Any info about the question to know if the update of the firmware/driver will solve the problem or if I can do with reliability a disk 2 RAID 1 for a 4 disk RAID 10 conversion without having to reinstall/restore system would be appreciated.

  There is NO migration route TO or FROM a nested RAID levels (10, 50, 60) on one of the PERC H series, so it goes from 1 to 10 of RAID is not an option (without backup/replace/create/restore).

  Firmware release notes do not indicate that a large part is added (although the "bugs" may be enough):

  -Addition of Support for > 2.2 to SAS hard drives

  -Small bug fixes

  I have not seen/heard talk of this problem (I don't have a H200), but it is possible that an update of the firmware can change the way it handles the new disks, newly configured RAID arrays, or even how it presents to the OS.

  Do you know if the technician checked to see if the original VD was marked as boot VD?

• Driver problem: Windows Server 2008 R2 on server T110 II with PERC S300 (RAID10)

  I have the Dell PowerEdge T110 II server with PERC S300 RAID card.  I installed 4 hard drives & them set on RAID10 in initial configuration.  The card mother recognizes the PCI-E card, which in turn recognizes readers.

  I pop in the Windows Server 2008 R2 DVD and I start from DVD, but when I get to the part where I have to choose a file location, it appears that he is not a player available.  There is another option to add a driver.  Then I went on the site ( http://tinyurl.com/PercS300driver) downloaded appropriate driver, added to USB & when I get to this screen, I'm trying to add the driver.  However, he said "there is no signed in this folder drivers."

  Does anyone know what I might be missing?

  You are using the wrong driver.  The one you linked to says it's for Server 2008 x 86.  As 2008 R2 64-bit only, there is no way it will work.  Use this driver for 2008 R2 (you must change the drop down menu on site driver downloads / to the correct operating system):

  www.dell.com/.../DriverDetails

  Be sure to run first to extract it, and then put the contents extracted on your CD/DVD/USB for use with the link to load a driver.

• 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

• Replace the SAS 5i/r with PERC 5i

  We have a SC1435 inherited a new client who has a SAS 5i/r that failed. The customer wants us to try to recover the machine online recoverthe of the 1 73 GB RAID array data.

  With this in mind, we swapped the SAS 5i/r with a PERC 5i we have in our spare parts, in the hope he could read all the metadata in the disks to rebuild the table.

  The drive is detected without problem, but no logical volume is detected.

  Can someone advise on my available options, that is, if I can find an another SAS 5i/r from somewhere it would detect the logical volume, or I have the option to create a new table RAID1 on PERC, but will it hose existing data, or perhaps another option, I did not thought.

  Thanks in advance

  Hello

  SAS 5 only supports migration to another SAS 5, but you should check to see if a foreign configuration is detected on PERC 5 just in case.

  Yes, install another SAS 5 should allow the table to be detected. It is possible that the table has been altered after the failure of the former Comptroller, so a data recovery company may be required if the table is not seen by another SAS 5.

  Thank you

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