P7-1439 RAID (1) Setup

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• Need for Raid-1 Setup in Windows 7 operating system.

  Aims to set up a House on RAID-1, accessible via Internet server in the future, hopefully with a domain name.
  Refurb purchased HP A6528 and two 2 nine WD Black 750 GB HARD disk.
  HARD drive connected to SATA 0 and SATA1.
  Compatible RAID in the BIOS.
  The machine restarted, you press F4, then Ctrl + I and creating a RAID volume using maximum (two volumes of 698 GB show as 'members')
  Clean install Win7 Home Premium (64) obtained via the participation of the College via MSDN.
  The installation program set aside space 100 MB 'reserved' and OS loaded in C:\ with a 698 GB boot volume.
  Open disk management. As a single volume (volume0) is displayed. Right clicked and making 'dynamic', and rebooted.
  Reopened on disk management, and fault tolerance indicates 'no '.
  Tried to do a right click to "Extend Volume", but it has always been grayed out (I AM an administrator).
  Repeat this process with the same results.
  What Miss me to set RAID 1 fault tolerance?

  Hi FSLoar,

  Thanks for posting. If I understand your facility, you have a hardware RAID on your motherboard configuration. With this you will not be able to make another RAID using Windows. Because you did the RAID on a level of Windows don't control hardware and looks like it, it's just a disk. If the fault tolerance that you are looking for is actually already in place.

  Because it is a hardware raid and not controlled by Windows software RAID, you will not be able to change all of the portions of the mirror and must perform these actions at the level of the BIOS/hardware. If you want to use Windows to control your RAID array you need to format both drives, break the hardware mirror. This will allow Windows to detect this than 2 hard drives. From there, you can go to disk management, convert dynamic disks, and then create your mirror.

  I hope this helps. Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
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• Help Setup RAID SATA for ESXi 4.1

  Hello

  It is the first time that you try to use vmware.  Any help is greatly appreciate!

  I just built a server around the Intel s5500hcvr mother. I have 6 SATA HDD I want to set up in a RAID. The integrated RAID controller seems to be very limited and does not seem to be supported by ESXi 4.1 (when I run ESXi 4.1 installation and it asks for a location for installation, all my discs are individually listed instead of virtual drives that I created with the RAID controller)

  My questions:

  (1) what is the suggested configuration of HDD (RAID levels / number of berries) for ESXi 4.1?  Can I create 1 RAID 10 array and set everything up to that?  or take one of my disks and install esxi 4.1 on it and then create a RAID with the rest of my discs and use it to store data?

  (2) anyone can provide links to some SATA RAID controllers that are known to work with ESXi 4.1 (and is the supposed to recognize virtual readers created by the RAID controller setup ESXi 4.1)

  Your motherboard has a RAID controller software which, as you have discovered, is completely not taken in charge by ESX/ESXi... You will need to get a RAID controller that is on the HCL for SAS and SATA hard drives (not one with battery backup write cache) so you can use any type of RAID configuration.

  My preference for Internal RAID configurations (on the host) are two drives mirrored for ESX/ESXi to reside (preferably being SAS 10 k or 15 k RPM, 73 GB or 146 GB in size) and then another table for the data store. You'll want to keep the data slot store table 2 TB-512 b size in order to present to ESX/ESXi as a LUN. Or you will need to get a RAID card this split of the support to the top of the table in the smaller of the virtual drives that can be presented for ESX/ESXi and LUNS.

  Search for controllers using the LSI MegaRAID chip as a good first lap. Some Adaptec cards should work, but I've seen people post questions on those recent (more recent than in the past). MANY manufacturers rebrand/efficiency the LSI MegaRAID Controllers server, such as the Dell PERC 6 series cards.

  For the use of 4 disks SATA, RAID 10 (on a BBWC, fully supported, controller) will give you the best performance. It will compare with SAS drives however. IF you do not plan on any virtual machine running with anything beyond light IOPS / s then you should be ok (or with very light loads)... If this is going to be a production server, then get the SAS drives all around.

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• Satellite P305-S8818 - Question about RAID compatibility

  Hi guys

  Back to Tosh. P305 (S8818) with 2 HDD - mine has 2 * 250G & I admit I bought without just thought! [Kenya $$] Just 2 questions: -.

  (1) - some way that they can be implemented with RAID 1 Setup - H/cherif additions/changes?

  (2) - if not; 250 GB is way more than I need - suggestions as how I could make the best use of the 2nd HARD drive?
  I think 2 BONES or copy [say-'True Image'] disc 01 - I think that you guys have a lot more knowledge than me - I hope you can help

  If you can; you have my eternal gratitude

  -Best wishes-
  Denis

  Hello

  As I'm not mistaken the Satellite P300/P305 series does not support RAID.
  There is NO RAID controller, but only the SATA HDD controller!
  Therefore, the use of any RAID parameters is not possible!

  In my opinion the second HDD can be used as a place for backups. I mean that you can back up your important data and files such as mp3, movies, pictures, etc. on the second HARD drive. I think is not a bad idea because the files stand still the operating system will be too bad and you need to reinstall it on the first HARD disk.

  Welcome them

• the z820 RAID configuration problem

  Hello

  I have a newly opened (running the BIOS 3.52) z820 workstation. I would get my RAID configuration Setup program, but I have problems following the steps in the maintenance and Service guide:

  http://h20628.www2.HP.com/km-ext/kmcsdirect/emr_na-c03424977-1.PDF

  More specifically, in the section "Setting up system BIOS", after confirming the RAID + AHCI is defined for the SATA Mode and Post Messages are enabled, then step 4 says that enable 'SATA RAID Option ROM download. There is none of these items under Device Options. I don't see "SAS Option ROM download", which is already activated.

  In addition, after leaving the BIOS settings, there is no CTRL + C or CTRL + I, option to enter RAID settings...

  Indeed, I checked that there are two drives running on the machine...

  Anyone know what is happening?

  Thank you

  Jake

  Oh and pass a legacy just for test purposes - unless you have already done.

• Pilots and controllers RAID performance issues.

  Hello world

  I'll beging assuming that I am new to VMware.

  I decided to build a server ESXi 4.1 autonomous based on map of Intel S5520HC.

  http://www.Intel.com/products/server/motherboards/s5520hc/s5520hc-overview.htm

  I used 5 Seagate 1 TB SATA HDD 7200 RPM 32 MB cache connected to the MB controller. Of course ESX couldn't see the RAID so I used this:

  http://www.Intel.com/products/server/RAID-controllers/SROMBSASMR/SROMBSASMR-overview.htm

  I connected the 4 hard drives in a RAID 10 conf and used this driver during installation so that this controller and R10 table to be found.

  http://Downloadcenter.Intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?AGR=Y & DwnldID = 18453 & ProdId = 3148 & lang = eng & OSVersion = A %0 & DownloadType = drivers

  I installed ESX on the 5th disc and also affected the ability of reserve as a "scratch" data store I configured ESX to use this data as a swap for virtual machines store. I also added a datastore iSCSI on a homebuild storage based on Openfiler using similar disks (RAID 10 Setup). All net connections are gigabit Intel on the 3Com gigabit switches. We have therefore 3 data warehouses. 1 is on one disc, the 2nd is on hardware RAID10, 3rd is on iSCSI gigabit. Reading and writing of the 2nd data store performance has been disastrous. It was much lower than these other two stores of data. (reading or writing would not exceed 20000 Kbps as seen on the performance of vSphere client tab.

  I decided to swap with the controller on that is supported natively by ESX, so I used RS2BL080 Intel

  http://www.Intel.com/products/server/RAID-controllers/RS2BL080/RS2BL080-overview.htm

  so I used 4 same disks and RAID 10 configuration and performance was even worse.

  I noticed that ESX used the same 1 controller driver since they are compatible. (megaraid sas)

  I want to permanantly unload/remove this driver and let the ESX to use a native without reinstallation of course.

  Any other suggestions to improve performance are welcome.

  Thank you.

  Welcome to the community,

  It is not the driver, what questions it's the writing mode in which operates the RAID controller. RAID controllers usually work in write-through mode, unless they have a cache with battery attached backup module. With the cache with battery backup module, they are able to operate in mode of writeback who basically dope performance. ESX(I) entirely relies on the caching of the RAID controller and does not any software based in implementing caching for security reasons.

  Generally, you will see rates of transfer between 5-20 MB/s in view write-through and > 80 MB / s in write-back mode.

  André

• ICH10R X 58 Raid 5

  I did a little playing with some additional hard disks yesterday to see what the jury on SATA ports on my old DX58s02 Intel LGA1366 MB. It seemed to me have discovered and then maybe read here and on the net that Raid 5 is a go in terms of performance. While the readings were in the 100 Mbit/s, written have been in the 5 to 20. I have Raid 0 Setup and did get a performance gain that was almost a multiple of the individual speeds of disks. I would like to be a fast/large raid eventually, but looks like I'll have to build for the future, because you seem to have to live with a system after its has a lot of data on it. RAID 10 might be an option, but a hardware controller is probably a better choice as means more money on hard drives, rather than spending money on a controller Raid 10. I have not done the calculation, but a system of 4 to 6 disc you will get almost 12 TB Raid 10, while Raid 5 allows you to get close to 20. It would have been nice to use ports onboard, but it appears THAT RAID 5 PUE software really when you move data on the disks. I don't think that an ARECA is in my budget, but it maybe a Fermata? Am I missing something?

  Thank you

  Scott

  It is stated in the link that Bill gave you, Tweakers Page - Raid or non-Raid

  Dedicated to the distributed parity is the difference, as well as the time to rebuild. Video and photo makes no difference.

• Recovery DVD does not load

  Hi guys,.

  I use a HP Pavilion A6120N Vista. It has a SATA RAID 0 HD value.  Machine will not start. After ordering the HP Recovery Disk Set, I tried to run the program of recovery.  It displays a message that "Windows loading files...". ». When the progress bar is completed, I get a small bar (2 1/2 inch long) with a few lines on this subject moving from left to right.  Below I have the symbol of copyright and Microsoft Corporation.  But it makes no further along than that.  I put the devices to boot from first and second for the dvd player.  I tried to start with each of them the three DVDs.  I tried to start with disk 1, 30 minute wait and the withdrawal of disc 1 / insert disk two.  I tried booting with the UBCD and another bootable cd and then insert disc 1.  I tried to start with the two disc and pressing F11 I got "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press Enter". When I replace it with two disc, I get the same results as above.  Nothing works. If anyone has any ideas, I'm open for them.

  After trying on & more, I got another result.  Without the disc in the drive, if I do not press F11 at startup, I get a choice of starting recovery or start windows normally.  These two choices lead to the small bar mentioned above with the lines moving from left to right. If I press F11, it goes straight to "Windows loading files...". "and the little bar with lines.  I chatted with HP support and they said the 800 number.  They told me that the OS is corrupted which causes the restore disc does not load.  Now, I thought that starting a CD/DVD without going through the operating system.  What's in Vista?  Can he change?  I saw as a warning to the other cd/dvd drive (dvd - rw 16 x pbds dh-16a1L) requires an update of the firmware to recognize the HP recovery discs.  I have the drive HL-DT-STdvdrrw.  Could it have the same problem and it had not just been documented?  So far, I am at a total loss.

  Thank you

  Message edited by TennBlues on 30/12/2008 21:58
  Message edited by TennBlues on 12/31/2008 12:03 AM

  AFAIK boot failure disk means one or both of the drives went bad or BIOS (F10) must be set to zero by default. So if the raid 0 Setup and a defective hard driveis then you need to get out that the hd and run recovery on the drive to work or wait until you get to another replaced.

  No, you do NOT have a corruption of the operating system, and Yes, the recovery disc bypasses the operating system on the drive. Windows Vista disk hard is not effect or prevent recovery disks because the disks will always wipe clean first the drive working.

  Try the following steps.

  (1) reboot the pc and go into F10 for installation (for vista)

  On the MAIN tab, check to make sure that your hard drives are both recognized where says 1st or 2nd disk, etc.

  It should look like WDC, SAMSUNG, ST... etc.

  (a) if it is not in the list, then check the SATA cable and power cables inside your computer to make sure it is plugged both ends properly and reconnect the cables to the two discs.

  (b) if only 1 disk is listed, then the other one may went bad on you and I would be the wrong drive breaker go back into the BIOS F10 menu and check that the right drive appears under you devices.

  I would then run a recovery disk of 1 until you replace it. In this case you will not have a raid 0 configuration more since she was only 1 player used.

  (2) try also reset the BIOS default settings by going to the menu of the BIOS F10 at startup and press F5, then press Yes then enter then F10, then Yes, then enter to restore the default BIOS settings.

  (3) after the reboot back to the BIOS menu and go right on the Startup tab and choose boot DEVICE PRIORITY and set the 1st boot device to the Group of HARD drive, then save the changes and exit the BIOS.

  If you want that you set the CDROM boot first yo group.

  You can also turn on the pc and press ESC to boot from the hard drive or a disk drive group.

  I recommend first resetting the default BIOS settings and check the devices first, before opening the pc.

  Message edited by c0rnel on 12/31/2008 01:42

• How to install W7 on a new hard drive with an upgrade disc

  This issue was published and responded differently and I'm looking to help determine that I'm not just doing.

  I have a desktop dell Inspiron 540 initially installed with vista and upgraded to w7 with upgrade disk.  PC currently has a raid 0 on two drives configuration.  I want to do a clean install of w7 on a new 2 gig disk and remove my raid disk, so I unplugged my raid drives and plugged the new drive with the boot sequence set on DVD as priority to start.  When I put the drive of W7 the PC starts and begins installation of W7 and passes by a couple of reboots before it comes to rest on and the screen eventually white.  My questions are the following:

  (1) is the w7 stall out because it's only a upgrade disk.  I've read that even an upgrade disc must fill a system knowing that I finally needed to authenticate the license but this not yet get there.

  (2) or is the problem that none of the original pilot was loaded onto the new drive before trying to install w7?  I don't know if I have the disks just as the PC was rebuilt with new hardware warranty, so I don't know the Dell disks I have are no longer valid and if I install w7 without them.

  (3) if I do not have the right Dell driver disks is there a way to only install drivers without having to install as I prefer to do a clean vista w7 install.

  (4) when my pc normally starts in a raid 0 configuration and passes to the bios Setup screen, there will be an another intel matrix storage screen which is where I need to enter CTRL + I to enter the raid configuration...  After that I disconnected my original discs and installed a new this screen intel never presented itself - is that because I have not installed the drivers from dell?

  (5) others have suggested that I should keep the original discs in place for now, install my new hard drive, install W7 on the new drive and then delete older readers.  However, if I do and if Miss me the physical disks, if I remove the old drives, which allows W7 still starts it correctly once I deleted the old hard.

  THX,

  The disc itself is a full install of W7, it is key that defines as an upgrade and the normal solution to a blank disc is not enter key questioned at first, but to call the Activation Center later. That's because Windows 7 is a completely new system and use nothing of Vista/XP even if the upgrade should be complete.

  If the system restarts once again successfully during the installation, then it booted from the HARD disk as the installation tasks are all made from there. As JW suggests to test the HARD drive, most manufacturers offer on their website diagnostic utilities that are in the CD or bootable USB format then not dependent on the installed o/s. In addition, a contender is memeory questions, either swap autour, replace or reduce the system to a stick to eliminate the problems.

  Make sure RAID mode has been disabled in the BIOS for Windows 7 AHCI or SATA mode should work well when a single drive is equipped with RAID should disable auto. The keys Ctrl + I is a precursor of the o/s drivers so a function RAID BIOS Setup screen is not apply to it is not there. He disappeared because there is a single disc and you can't build a matrix on a single disc.

  All compatible motherboards in PC today have all the installation of Windows 7 no driver needed. They are normally added after the initial installation. If it's still a Dell Mobo, then the same driver drive should work as it will identify all required driver.

• material conditions VSA?

  Hi all, I have a couple of servers I want to use for esx vsa, can I use different physical servers?

  those I have is the two ram 64gig with the same kind of CPU in both (intel E5-2620 x 2) and raid is setup at the same time with the same amount of storage, hard drives same but different, is raid controllers the number one is a Fujitsu and the other is super micro.

  Someone think that I would have problems this?

  Thank you

  Steve

  Hi, I did a little work on the ASB (with the same type of good servers) but I think you will be ok and it's certainly worth a try. The fact that all the components are the same (with the exception of the RAID controller) should mean that everything will work.

  The installation notes refer to a "homogeneous hardware configuration" not identical so I think it will work. The only thing I would say is make sure RAID controllers present the same RAID configurations (RAID10, RAID 6, etc.) as long as they are the same configuration.

  Here is the link to the release note that has the installation requirements - http://www.vmware.com/support/vsa/doc/vsphere-storage-appliance-513-release-notes.html

  Hope that helps,

  Steven

• Problems installing Windows Vista on a p9x79 pro raid setup.

  I'm trying to load Vista in raid0 on 2 WD 1 TB SATA 6 gb hd black
  I have an asus p9x79 pro MB with the latest bios. 3.0.0.1184 OROM.
  Samsung sata dvd drive

  When Vista first starts loading he asks "a required cd/dvd drive device is missing. If you have a driver disk, cd, dvd or usb flash drive please insert it now.

  I used the flash drive I created with the asus dvd provided with Mo and he installed the 'Inter c600 series chipset sata raid controller' allowed the installation to continue.
  Then it asked for the product key, and then license, then type setup, where you want to install.

  At this stage there is no disk to install to so I click on "drivers" and select the c600 Intel a new, but still no disks.

  Here's the funny thing, when I try to load windows 7, it detects the disk in the screen "where you want to install" without having to load the c600 drivers again. He's right there. Win 7 loads fine if I skip the product key, but I know that won't last long.

  I need vista loading because my win 7 is an upgrade.
  I hope someone can help me with this.

  Thank you. Bob

  Hello

  I suggest you to ask your question on Microsoft Technet for assistance.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/category/windowsvistaitpro

• "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

• Tecra S3 XP Setup not find HARD drive even if the RAID drivers were included by F6 key

  I tried to install a normal XP (not recovery). But the installation program will not find my HARD drive even if I include the Toshiba RAID via F6 drivers.

  Any ideas?

  > I have decided to use nLite and added the raid driver but after several installations different combo, I'm done with the original problem which does not recognize my floppy USB drive after format

  If you have included the RAID driver using the nLite so I put t understand why you need the external USB floppy drive?
  Anyway, to my knowledge, not all USB FDD drives are compatible and it can happen that a non supported USB FDD drive will not recognize and so you would not be able to install the RAID floppy driver!

  But nLite is the key! Using the nLite you n t need the USB FDD drive!

• Suggested Drive setup for new h8 - 1360t with SSD and Raid-1 array

  All,

  I need some advice on how to configure the drives in my new system (waiting for construction and delivery, sigh).

  I bought a plan to replace the 1 TB drive with a new drive SSD that I start from and H8 - 1360T (Win 7 Pro).

  I also have a Raid-1 array in an old HP 4999 T system (Vista) disks Western Digital Caviar Black 2x2TB

  By looking at the motherboard plug appear to be only SATA0/1 6 GB/s, the others are 3GBPS.

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c03132942

  I was a little surprised by that and need some advice.

  1. If I put the SSD on SATA0 or SATA1, the quickest way?

  2 or do I put the drives Raid-1 array and move the SSD to path of 3 Gbps?

  I think this last (option 2), but wanted to get your entry in case missed me something.

  Thank you

  Joel

  Ruette,

  Thanks for your comments. Looks like I should start with Option 1 as a better starting point.

  Joel

• ICH10R SATA RAID driver does not load on the Setup

  I have a new computer with a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard. It allows the disk RAID configuration.

  I have two 1 TB SATA drives installed. I have configured the RAID BIOS

  When I load Windows XP Pro (OEM), I hit F6 to install the RAID driver.

  It is said to put it in the floppy drive and press ENTER. I put the disk in the floppy drive and press ENTER. Nothing happening (not messages) and it asks again to put the floppy in the floppy drive and press ENTER. I'm puzzled. Any help is appreciated.

  Hi MightyMouse,

  As you said, if you can't load the drivers or get the disk to spin there is a hardware conflict / issue. To solve, you can contact the manufacturer or try a BIOS update. If you have any other questions please let us know.

  I hope this helps! Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
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