Management Dell Powervault 220 s of Poweredge 2950

Hi all

I am new to the forum and would be very happy for any advice you could offer.

I'm looking to re-purpose some old material for WDS. We have an older PE2950 I would use, as well as a Powervault 220 s that would be used for storing images.

Now, I know there are many messages from forum on this subject, but I feel that I may have a unique situation, since only add-in cards I have to interface with the PV are HP SC11Xe.

I guess my first question here is that will work? After installing the card, I can see readers in the PV during startup and they appear even in the management of the computer, but I can't do anything with the volume.

We are not looking to dump a lot of money in this server, because it is quite old. We are mainly looking to move away from a WDS VM running on a Mac Mini Server, and I thought this might be a better option.

We have an old server that was originally set to run the PV; a PE1850, but the specifications are not acceptable.

For what it's worth, the PV was originally created as a split volume.

Hello, cameron.tropser.

First of all, I can say that the HP SC11Xe won't work with Dell Open Manage Server Administrator (OMSA). You have two options: boot in the BIOS HP controller and configure from there or use the controller inside the PE1850 (?).

If this was used originally with the PD1850, then the config is likely, always on this controller.

Beyond that, you won't be able to configure/manipulate volumes via OMSA.

I hope it's useful.

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