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• Upgrade 2 T110 S300-based hardware RAID controller

  I have a Power Edge T110 2 provided with a PERC S300 SAS controller attached to 6 internal drives and execution of Win2008R2. I'm about to rebuild the tower as well as a Ubuntu Linux server and need to change the S300 with something that is hardware RAID. I'm looking to the PERC H200 as substitute, however I have a few problems.

  Mainly, the H200 seems to have internal mini SAS 26 pins, while the S300 has 32 large internal regular PIN. Would normally not be a problem, but the T110 also shipped with a certain type of cable combo, which integrates the internal Rod 32 with for each of the four HDDs that it can reach the food.
  In addition, it seems that this combo cable is integrated on the power supply.
  I need to understand what the card can I use to replace my software RAID controller with a hardware RAID controller and always use the combo cable OR how can I replace the cable with the new card.
  Thank you!

  Part number 342-3389 includes the necessary cables.

• It is possible to examine the status of heath on my RAID controller?

  I have now installed ESXi with a new hardware raid controller and its working perfect, so now I think how I can watch on my diske is OK or fail?

  Can I someway check my status of heath on my controller raid and eg. get a mail if somtings are wrong?

  My raid controller is LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i - 128xHDD

  Thanks for your time.

  You must install the CIM providers for controller LSI/MegaRAID on the ESXi. But it seems that they are not yet available for VMWare 6.0, if you try the 5.5.

  Check 'Software downloads'-> 'Management software and tools' article on above page LSI.

  Thereafter, you need a workstation on the same subnet and you can install MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) and connect to the CIM provider.

  Here's a KB on LSI for VMWare 5.0 for example tools, but you might find more / more detailed by Googling a bit descriptions: VMware KB: ESXi 5.0 Server Management Tool media LSI

• PowerEdge 1900 and Poweredge 840 and NO hardware RAID SATA HD, FreeNAS with ZFS

  I searched these forums and the web in general a concise my questions answer, but nothing is done.  I just happen to find someone who is using 'old' technology and it retarget as much as you might think (I am a broke student by the way).

  I bought a Poweredge 1900 Server & server Poweredge 840 ebay about last year.  I've been busy and have yet to work with these two units.  I wanted to use the PE 1900 as a file server and then push a backup of these files on the server off site, the PE840.  I intended to buy four 1 TB or four disks SATA 2 to (WD Black or RED WD) for each system, respectively.

  I've been through a few videos on youtube the other day and discovered FreeNAS.  This seems to be a much better solution than the use of Ubuntu Server, but it also made me think about the hardware Raid with these systems.  If FreeNAS uses ZFS (software raid controller), you want to avoid a hardware raid controller.

  My current assumptions, please correct me if I'm wrong on any of the following:

  I think that each of these systems to support drives up to 2 TB?, I think that I can use the SATA drives and not SAS, four discs in each system drives.

  I believe that I can boot from USB flash drive (a quick, which I intend to install FreeNAS on which they recommend)

  I think I can connect readers to the Perc/Raid Controller controller (& just turn 'off' RAID), or simply directly on the motherboard.  (What woud be the advantages/disadvantages of the use of the card or simply by using the Council)

  I intend on working with what I have right now (cheap and available), then once I get this configuration work that I take it out of the sand/lab sandbox, upgrade the processors and ram up my budget will allow and go live with the installation program (if it is still possible)

  From now on, they are sitting in a corner, begging to consume energy, and fans of polute the soundscape with their cries (PE1900 precisely).  I know that I could pursue other options but I already these two units.

  I really want to utilze FreeNAS its serving capacity file and ZFS for its reliability.  Is it possible with this camera?, or should I junk them and move on?

  Thank you for your answer!

  I've done some research more and since FreeNAS is built off of FreeBSD supported hardware is the same.  I couldn't find a list for FreeNAS specifically so I looked to FreeBSD.  I was still confused about the material and decided to go forward with the poweredge 840, for two reaasons, there already 8 GB of ram and it is not as heavy to move on (from 1900). I shoot the raid controller (for simplicity) and I plugged in three 250 GB SATA drives and a 40 GB SSD.  I had to set the bios for the usb key is recognized and also due to adapt to be considered as a hard drive, then had to define the sequence of boot to the usb drive, acting as a hard drive.  Once all that has been said and done, I wrote my FreeNAS image on my USB and booted up.

  It took maybe 10 minutes and I was up and running (once I had configured the hardware and bios), I created a RaidZ (as proposed FreeNAS) and with my three 250 GB drives, it produced 453 GB of usable disk space.  The 40 GB SSD is used as L2ARC (from my cache of understanding), I tried the installer with and without the 40 GB SSD.  The difference was impressive, just opening the photos or streaming video on my laptop Win 8.1 (Dell 17r) is almost flawless, as if the files were stored locally.

  I was impressed by how quick and easy to use FreeNAS, simple and fast network shares can be configured with permissions that works quite simply not in less than 5 minutes.  I don't have Windows Server down, but generally configuration active directory takes a little more effort.

  I am satisfied for the moment and continues to experiment with the Poweredge 840 until I commit to a processor upgrade.  Once I acquire 16 GB memory for my Poweredge 1900 I will perform with her, as it has only 1 GB now, crazy.

  Thank you for your help.

• General on the raid controller and hardware

  Hello

  I have that the hard disk controller or controller raid (0,1,5) does not work on a computer, if I add hollow PCI slot a wil raid controller or hardware, computer, or the raid not works normally?

  Johan

  Hi Johan,.

  Thanks for posting on Microsoft Community Forums.

  Ideally it is dependent on the PCI slot you use, if the PCI slot supports the hard disk controllers and RAID controllers so it will work with the computer. Almost all modern PCI slots supports the hard disk controllers and RAID controllers.

  For more information on the operation of the devices and drivers on Windows 7, click on the link below.

  Windows 7: manage devices and drivers

  Feel free to write us if you have questions/queries when you work with Windows.

• Cisco C240-M4SX / 12G SAS Embedded Raid Controller Queue depth Reporting resulting in ESXi 6.0

  All,

  We have been a customer of vSAN VMware 6.0 for the last 6 months of our environment entirely on servers of Cisco C240 M4SX with the Cisco 12 G SAS integrated Raid Controller.   Everything in the environment was working well until we started to bring in data warehouse loads in the environment and began to notice performance around latency of disk and most important issues still outstanding IO high.  After that ESXtop and ESXCFG examination we found that the length of the queue announced to the adapter ESXi has been only 234 however the VMware HCL Announces 895; 234 is below minimum spec of 256 to correctly implement vSAN.  We have worked diligently with VMware on it to try different versions certified and non certified driver async for this raid controller in addition to the most recent firmware for the raid controller.  Regardless of the change of the depth of the queue remained 234.  The presence of FBWC affect the depth of queue announced to the operating system?  VMware support has indicated that it is clearly a problem "hardware".  Any ideas as to what may be causing this?

  Our environment:

  C240-M4SX

  Integrated 12G SAS Raid Controller (operation JBOD / pass-through, not FBWC)

  UCSM 2.2 (6 c)

  Driver of VMware for controller: 6.606.06.00 - 1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib

  VMware vSphere 6.0U1

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  Greetings.

  Had the chance to spend some time in the laboratory and removed the cache module.

  After that, I now get "207", so I would say it's confirmed that 1,2,4 GB cache modules are used to increase the depth/length of the queue for these controllers.

  12gb_sas_qdepth_no_cache.jpg

  

  Thank you

  Kirk

• "Setup cannot find not all hard disks" on Dell PERC 6/1 RAID controller-supported?

  Hi team - I have a Dell R710 (physical host) PE server that uses the Dell PERC RAID controller 6/1.  Windows Server 2008 x 64 is the host operating system.  VMW Server 2.02 installs and works very well, and I need to install W2K8 x 32 (guest) server configuration, but windows can't see the virtual disk with the same error "Setup cannot find not all hard disks", you get the installation on Windows XP Home edition- but the documentation does not say it's controller RAID is not taken in charge should be... any ideas?

  This is not a problem of the underlying RAID/hardware controller.

  Virtual MACHINE on VMware Server just to see the virtual hardware that you have configured when creating the virtual machine, or through the settings.

  Be sure to select the correct target OS when you create a virtual machine. This configures the disk controller HARD virtual appropriate, which should be supported on the OS installation media.

  If you have selected the right OS and still have problems, please post the vmx file.

  André

• NVIDIA MCP55 SATA/RAID controller, not possible to mirror?

  Is it possible to configure the controller NVidia MCP55 under ESX4i a mirror?

  In the bios, it is possible, but ESX4i does not recognize the mirror and shows the mirror as 2 separate drives.

  ideas?

  Ronald

  Drivers for ESX (i) support software (also known as false) as the MC55 RAID controllers.  If you need RAID you will have to go with a hardware RAID card.

  Dave

  VMware communities user moderator

  New book in town - Start Guide quick vSphere -http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/08/12/new-book-in-town-vsphere-quick-start-guide/.

  You have a system or a PCI with VMDirectPath?  Submit your specifications to the unofficial VMDirectPath HCL - http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21.

• Cannot install Windows 7 ultimate on hardware RAID

  I have three 1 to HARD sata drive, in the card mother Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H. I did HDD1 as no raid and two others as mirror leads to the BIOS level using control RAID Utility. But when I try to install Windows 7, in the last step of the installation, I got a message saying that Windows cannot continue. Anyboday have suggestions.

  Disconnect the two additional disks, insert the cd of Win, if it finds all remove them all partitions, and then continue the installation (I assumed that the installation correctly identifies the size of the disk)

  PS You are aware of the limits of the raid provided by the controller of the motherboard?

  Mirror raid is not an alternative to a backup

  RAID, provided by the controller of the motherboard is not hardware raid, in the true sense. Hardware RAID is available from a dedicated third-party hardware card.

• How do I know what RAID controller works the box?

  Using the VMware Compatibility Guide, how do I know what RAID controller works out of the box (no installation necessary driver, no action necessary special) for 5.5 ESXi update 2?

  PS - I initially assumed that if they appear then they work OOB, but there is nothing on the page registration or landing pages of the device that makes this clear.

  Once you click the RAID controller in the HCL, you will see all the supported versions of ESXi with the appropriate driver listed as "inbox" or async". There may be more driver for a specific version, but if one of them is stated as "inbox", it is supposed to work out of the box.

  André

• replaced RAID controller - new signature or use existing assignment request

  Hello

  Recently, I replaced a problematic to find RAID controller that the virtual drives are not mounted automatically by VMWare after a reboot.  I guess it's because when I add data warehouses, I wonder to use the existing disk signature or to assign a new signature.  At the beginning, I chose to use the existing one.  If I chose to create a new signature, this will solve my problem of mounting disks does not automatically?  If so, my BONES existing comments will be tactful or they might have problems?

  Resignaturing a data store should not harm the data on this subject. However, after resignaturing you can see all the VMS in the inventory as inaccessible and need to remove the inventory and add their .vmx files in the data store Navigator right click. What you can try is to manually mount persistently store data from the command line to see if that solves the problem without resignaturing (see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011387).

  André

• ESXi Raid Controller

  Hello people,

  I have question for ESXi and my Raid Controller.

  In my server, I use a SATA-SAS/ARC-1222 Areca raid controller.

  When I try to install ESXi it does not recognize my discs.

  
  First of all, I had to set up a Raid set. I put 2 sets of 2 discs of each.

  The first game has 2 150 GB SATA drives. The other 2 x 1 TB.

  After that, I set up the VolumeSets.

  The first series (2 x 150GB) is defined as Raid 1.

  The second has raid 0 (total 2 TB).

  I guess now I'm missing some kind of driver for ESXi.
  But I don't know what to do now.

  The only things I found were:

  http://www.areca.com.tw/support/s_vmware/VMware.htm

  and

  http://PartnerWeb.VMware.com/comp_guide1/detail.php?device_cat=IO & DEVICE_ID = 12728 & release_id = 196

  But I don't know what to do with these files .vmk (5).

  Can someone help me?

  Thanks in advance,

  ReDNaX

  He cannot use the Update Manager or anything like that because that has yet to install the host.

  You must integrate the bundle offline driver directly into the ISO installation. You can use this great tool to create an ESXi ISO that contains this driver:

  http://www.v-front.de/p/ESXi-customizer.html

  BTW, this driver seems a bit more recent:

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI50-areca-ARCMSR-1200015110622&ProductID=284

  VMware ESX/ESXi 5.x driver CD for Areca RAID 1.20.00.15.110622 controller Version
  Date 2011-11-02 output

• SATA storage VMware hypervisor

  Hi, I'm building a new server that I intend to install VMWare Hypervisor (ESXi 4.x) on but it will be 3 x 500 GB SATA hard drives formatted in RAID 5 and hot-swappable. It will work ok for my VM storage on? I am mixes your comments.

  Thank you very much

  N ° the 3Ware does not show the State of health; However, there is a command line tool (tw_cli) that can be installed directly on ESXi (version 3Ware ESXi download - sorry I don't have the link). Our plan is to write a script in Nagios to run the tool via ssh and analyze the results. This is a DIY hack. The Dell PERC would be easier to deal with.

  Technical support 3ware is usually very helpful. They have ESXi drivers for their cards that may be installed on ESXi embedded. The cards are real RAID with battery backup. Buy batteries separately.

• For ESXi 4.1 - 2805 Adaptec RAID controller?

  Hello.

  ASUS is not come through one of the PIKES are delivering controllers, I am looking for an another SAS/SATA Raid Controller supporting at least 6 disks and Raid 1 + 0, what I also learned as ESXi requires that it be a H/W Raid Controller.

  I'm looking on the Adaptec RAID 2805 controller specifically.

  It is one of the adapter entry level Raid controllers, then it is offered at a low cost and whereas it will be a small "House" use server runs a number of images of Windows/Linux, I don't think it would be as sensitive as the price difference is to choose an Adaptec RAID 5805 controller instead.

  It is, does anyone have any experience with the Adaptec RAID 2805 controller? Since it is not listed on the compatibility guide, however the Adaptec RAID 2405 is and as far as I can tell the difference is the number of channels op. the 2405 would properly cover my needs as well if I could find a retailer for her near me.

  So, the question, because any who have experience running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a Raid 1 + 0, using SATA disks with any of the listed controllers?

  OK, found a Danish dealer who could acquire the LSI card.

• Advice on the Sata Raid Controller

  Hi all

  After a months long test of ESXi 3.5, now I want to configure a more robust system based on a Dell SC 1420, but with an updated Sata Raid Controller to level.  I need to choose a mid Sata Raid controller price (£120 - £150) but I'm worried about compatibility.

  Can anyone recommend a Sata Raid which will give good performance and is supported with ESXi 3.5

  I don't want to change the configs and others, even if other people seem to have made this summer with success.

  Dave

  Go to www.vm-help.com. (Awesome site of Dave M) You will find a whitebox HCL it as well as Sata controllers. Note that these llisted are not supported by VMware, but have been confirmed to work.

  Nemasis