PowerEdge 2850 - Perc 4e/Di - status of the RAID-1 array

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• PowerEdge 2850 perc 4e/di has no road

  I just want to confirm before I replace the failed drive with someone who has experience. I am running openmanage have 2 virtual disks raid 1, the 1st shows two thin discs. The 2nd shows a failed drive. These are hot swappable disks and I have some records of exact replacement on-site. It seems too simple that change to the new drive and clicking on rebuild the right?

  Server always remains online during the reconstruction of the new correct player? If the performance of the server are reduced during the reconstruction could I for the day exchanging the defective drive again and then open a session remotely late into the night and click on rebuild? (I can't access it remotely, no problem there).

  Just never failed before and looking for someone who has been there and a heads-up.

  Thank you

  Youngfam,

  That is right. The server remains online. From there you remove the failed drive and then after about 20 seconds, insert the replacement. Now the raid controller should automatically start this reconstruction for you, but if not then you would need to do a manual rebuild or assign the replacement as a spare drive, resulting in its reconstruction.

  This is the manual for the Perc 4e/di - http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/Common/dell-perc-4-di_User's%20Guide11_en-us.pdf

  It contains additional information regarding new buildings and replacing failed hard drives.

  Regarding performance, the default rebuild rate is 30%, so it affects performance a bit during the reconstruction. Not to where users would notice, unless under a heavy load.

  If you remote access to the best way to control the reconstruction, and everything would be to install Open manage server administrator on the server. It will allow you to monitor and manage the health of the server and the controller. You can get OMSA here - http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriverDetails/Product/poweredge-2850?driverId=G2WT6&osCode=WNET&fileId=2883471492&languageCode=en&categoryId=SM

  Now with installing OMSA he will call to reset, so you can schedule downtime if you want to install this package.

  Let me know if this helps and answers your questions.

• ESXI 4.1 will not detect the RAID 5 array

  Hi all

  I try to install ESXI on a HP ML350 G6.  When I configure the table as a RAID 5, ESXI detects the logical drive, but watch used and 0 bytes of free space I would install it.  If I reformat the table to a RAID 10, ESXI it detects perfectly.  I really need to have it configured as a RAID 5.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

  -Mike

  Welcome to the Forums - what size are a table you are trying to create? VMware ESX and ESXi can access tables less then 2 TB in size-

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• Degraded RAID 1 array: PowerEdge 2800

  Hello to everyone. I hope someone can shed some light on this unusual situation.

  I have a PowerEdge 2800, which must be replaced before May this year, this is a great server and done an excellent job over the past 7 years.

  OK for the problem; The server administrator has been a failure on 0:0

  In the server, we have:

  0: Maxtor 36 GB 15 k 0 0:1 Fujitsu 73 GB 15 k something 1:2... 1:3 something...

  So, I jumped 0:0 and the server worked great with a range of gradations, and 15 seconds I inserted back to the PE2800. After about 45 minutes the RAID 1 array has been rebuilt, but it still says expected failure. So I thought that better order some new readers - I received today; 2 x 146 GB 15 k Seagate Cheetah.

  OK, so I jumped 0:0 drive and inserted one of the 146 GB Cheetah and the server crashed - wouldn't boot at all and gave me an error stating that the logical drive failed.

  Thus, in the PERC4i BIOS, I forced drive 0:1 online and the server is now back operational but with a range of gradations.

  So that's where I am, what choice do I have?

  Insert the old disk with a predicted failure, leave it alone or try the 146 GB Cheetah. I don't really want to do an any of them, but I will order another 73 GB Fujitsu in the meantime.

  I want to know is why the server crash after having inserted the cheetah disc? I traded to many-a-time pluggable hard drives in the past in several dell breaks and never experienced anything like this.

  Degraded running, any response would be massively appreciated.

  Thank you very much.

  "So, I'm now to square, where I have a RAID1 system with a disk failure planned.  What would you do from here on? »

  Another thing that many people do not know is with a disk of pf, should it be forced offline before replacing, if not the FP flag can be assigned to the new drive (until a real "rescan" is performed) and can result in strange behavior (the controller is more sensitive to potential readers of pf failure).

  "Common sense says I can't mix-match 10 k / 15 k TPM!

  You CAN / layout speeds and/or sizes (there's nothing wrong with him "technically"), but in real-world scenarios, you would ever want to mix speeds (depending on the configuration, it degrade the speed of the whole picture).  One thing you can't do is mix U320 SCSI U160 readers on a bottom of basket/controller.

  "What would you do from here on?

  I guess from here depends on what you feel more comfortable making.  There is a chance that the pf reader works fine until you are finished with the server (or until you can get another replacement - if you feel another replacement would be better than those you currently have), even if it might cause additional problems if his condition deteriorates.  There is a chance it could happen again if you try to replace it, but I think it's unlikely to happen.  If it was me (and it is important to remember that this isn't :)), I force disk 0 offline and replace "hot" by the other 146 GB drive.  Another thing you could do, who feel probably less risky, is simply to insert the disc of 146 GB in an open slot, assign as a relief, then force offline disk 0, which results in a regeneration start automatically with disk 0.

• Z210: Bad support/problem with recovery of an Z210 system when changing the RAID configuration backup

  My Z210 accompanies stripped Bay RAID-0, which currently consists of 2 x 1 TB HDD where the OS partition. I want to change that in RAID-1 mirror, but as the application of TSRI does no such RAID level migration, I thought I would try another approach.

  As a solution, I'd do a backup using the Windows backup and restore application. Then, I would change the table using the Boot ROM TSRI before restoring the backup to this new array. But obviously backup 1.9 TB in a table of 932GB will not

  So, to make a backup, I firstly disabled 'System Protection' and the file 'Page '. This allowed me to reduce the OS partition to about 50 GB using disk management. Then I re - activate 'System Protection' and the 'Page file' before making the backup and the creation of a system recovery disk. This resulted in a backup of 35 GB that I stocked up on a USB external drive. And now a backup of 35 GB can fit on my reconfigured 932GB RAID - 1 mirror

  As such, I cold booted my system and during the boot process, I pressed CTRL-I to get the State of mind RAID Intel Boot ROM. you, CTRL-I've worked only if I started cold and the HP USB keyboard directly connected the first USB slot at the back of the system. The first USB slot is at the top left when you look at the back with the portrait of the tower. Connect the HP USB keyboard in USB port or in the hub of my Dell monitor does not allow me to access the ROM to Boot Intel RAID!

  HP should really study this fault

  In any case, when I could access the Intel RAID Boot ROM, I deleted the RAID-0 stripped existing and created a new RAID-1 mirror. Obviously, the process is destructive and wipe the BONES of the table but that's what my backup was to

  Then I started on the Windows system recovery disk, plugged the USB external drive and proceeded to recover my system.

  Everything worked as expected with the operating system partition uses about 50 GB. A simple trip to disk management enabled me to extend the volume to occupy the space allocated, as presented by the RAID-1 array. As such, I find myself with about 932 GB partition that appear in the windows disk management tool. After a check disk and reboot (which fixed some minor issues) all seemed well.

  But no, everything was fine

  Well that ROM boot RAID Intel sees that a mirror RAID-1 about 932 GB and the operating system sees a partition about 932 GB, both as expected, demand for Intel RST in windows States the following:

  

  I don't seem to have indication of what type of table, it is, an options to change the name of the table or an option to check the integrity of the array through the TSRI application in windows. If something is screwed

  But after the update for the application of iRST version 10.6.0.1002 Intel (the newest HP of) version 11.2.0.1006 (version Intel got very practice), the question seems to correct itself. Now the RAID, Windows boot ROM and the request of TSRI in Windows all agree that the table is indeed a mirror RAID-1 932 GB.

  

  I don't know what caused the problem, if it's related to something that was wrong with the process that I used, if she is simply resolved by reinstalling driver, or if this is a fix for a known issue that Intel has included in their questions later from the pilot.

  But what I know is that Intel has resolved a number of issues in the version 12.9.0.1001 driver (which is the latest version for the Cougar Point chipsets) compared to the old driver version 10.6.0.1002 HP has on its support page for the Z210.

  And HP seems unwavering in his lack of interest in the Intels 12.9.0.1001 test pilot and then make it available on its support page for what is a product still under warranty

  It is a mediocre service if you ask me...

  Some HP forum administrator or HP support person hide these forums should impose it in the HP management station and get it looked at. The Z210 is still under warranty for some customers and HP needs to pick up the latest drivers available to all suppliers, test them and then release them to their customers via the support page for this product. All the rest is little change us all.

  I was able to resolve the application problem Intel RST by updating to the latest v11.2.0.1006 Intel driver but it has highlighted a few points that HP should address, see linked post above.

  PS: Add this post so I can mark the thread as solved.

• A Dell PowerEdge 2850 server is used for the new ESXi server, but it does not support the 64-bit VM.

  A Dell PowerEdge 2850 server is used for the new ESXi server, but it does not support the 64-bit VM.

  I can't believe it.

  When I start up a virtual computer, it gives a wrong message shown in the picture below.

  Does anyone have any ideas on this?

  Usually not enabled virtualization technology in host BIOS.

  Take a look at can not power on a 64-bit Windows VM

• Having trouble installing an OS on a PowerEdge 2850

  I recently purchaced a Dell PowerEdge server 2850 U1 of second hand and I'm unable to install an operating system on it.

  It's my first server to not laugh at me, if it's a simple solution

  I have no difficulty in obtaining start-up of the drive, but once it loads it does no drive detected

  Can anyone help?

  Hello

  Even if you have a RAID PERC 4 adapter, it does not seem any logical drives put in place if it is more than probably why you don't see any location to install the operating system. To configure a logical drive, open THE RAID controller BIOS and follow the steps on this link:

  If your server has a floppy drive, it's just a case of download and run this file, ensuring that it saves the contents of a floppy disk. Once you have done this, start the OS support and then select F6 to install third-party SCSI or RAID drivers when prompted and follow the instructions on the screen.

  If you do not have a floppy drive, you can integrate the drivers using nLite: http://www.nliteos.com/ - if you need help doing so, please let me know.

  Thanks again, hope to hear from you soon.

• More old PowerEdge 2850 & ESXi?

  Hello

  We have a PowerEdge 2850 we brought back in June 2005, which came with Windows 2003 Standard installed. Now, we would like to make use of additional memory that the 2850 can take up to 16GB. Of course Windows 2003 Standard does not accept this, then we are looking at the formatting, and install ESX or ESXi, then we can install Win2003 on a virtual machine.

  However, after the President of Dell support, they said it maybe some hardware compatibility problems, like 2005 it was at the beginning of when Dell began to supprt virtualization and the 2850 would be the oldest machine that they Supportepar. So I need to check the documenetion Dell & ESX/ESXi to ensure compatibility.

  I was wondering if anyone here has experience with ESX/ESXi and the PowerEdge 2850, especially one since about 2005? If so, do you have questions? I've listed the material PE 2850 below, done anything out of competition as being incompatible?

  POWEREDGE 2850

  1 x CARD mounting PCI - X - 3 SLOTS PCI - X (64-BIT)

  1 x 4 GB MEMORY DDR2 SINGLE RANK (4x1Go)

  2 x XEON 3.0 GHZ/2 MB FSB800 PROCESS

  2 x Intel Pro 1000 MT NETWORK CARDS

  1 x ATI RADEON 7000 EMBEDDED

  1 x 3.5 INCH 1.44 MB of floppy DISK DRIVE

  4 x 300 GB SCSI ULTRA320 (10 000 rpm)

  1 x PERC 4DI EMBEDDED RAID OPTION (CH SINGLE)

  1 x DRIVE de DVD-ROM/CD-RW COMBO

  1 x block of power SUPPLY NON REDUNDANT

  1 x C04 MR5, edge in USING RAID 5 RAID

  Any help, advice or suggestions would be very appreciated.

  Thank you very much

  Ben

  I installed ESXi on a 2850 at present, which was since August 2005 and it works like a treat.  We cannot do any messing extra to make it work, it worked as soon as the software has been installed.

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  Mark Atherton

• PowerEdge 2900 Perc 6 / i internal Raid Controller

  OK, so I use a server Dell PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC 6 / i integrated RAID controller

  I have configured the RAID array very well, installed Windows 2008 R2 and works fine and dandy

  The only problem I encounter is that, when starting the server (Post), I get a message on the cable SAS B are not connected or misconfigured.  The bottom of the basket on my server, which goes to the internal drives, has only a port where I can plug a cable between the Perc 6 / i.  Where is the 2nd wire supposed to go?  I can't find the second port.

  Thank you

  Hello

  joeyjojo56

  I get a message on the cable SAS B are not connected or misconfigured.  The bottom of the basket on my server, which goes to the internal drives, has only a port where I can plug a cable between the Perc 6 / i.  Where is the 2nd wire supposed to go?  I can't find the second port.

  PERC connector 0 goes to the bottom of basket. Connector on the PERC 1 connects to the modular Bay. If you don't have the module Bay optional then you ensure that you use the 0 on the PERC and not the connector 1.

  Thank you

• Install a non-of a Dell Poweredge 2850 server operating system

  Hello everyone.

  I was wondering how I could go about the installation of operating system, including Windows 7 and Windows XP on my server. I understand that they are not made for the server, but I would use Windows 7 instead of the server operating system. Windows XP is an option, but I'd rather not, if I have to

  Stick the DVD in the drive and start to install.  Chances are that Windows 7, like server 2008R2 will NOT have the drivers for the controller RAID (PERC 4e/Di), so use the driver 2008R2 for the RAID controller (and any other device requiring disks after installation).

  Controller RAID PERC 4e/Di to 2008R2 driver:
  http://ftp.Dell.com/SCSI-RAID/LSI-LOGIC_MULTI-DEVICE_A00_R227150.exe

  Also keep in mind that PERC does NOT support non-RAID, so you MUST configure RAID before installing, or even with the right driver, no hard drive is visible.

  Potential problems:

  Graphics - you should probably use the drivers of graphics/video 2008 x 64 for a decent resolution.  Keep in mind that server (such as 16 MB video memory) graphics will run NO Aero or high resolution/refresh.

  DRAC - if you have a DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) card installed, you will not be able to install drivers to meet these devices in Device Manager.

  Management system - software of management of Dell is NOT supported on the client OS.

  Other:

  In the 2850 processors do NOT support the VT, then you would be very limited with virtualization options.

  Sounds: there is no sound on a server.

• PowerEdge 2850 message error, no display, usb devices do not work and all readers are off (a little)

  Hello! I'm here in the dell community because I'm having an error with a PowerEdge 2850 server. When I boot it all seems to work, but inspection closer both blue and yellow led on the front is off. All devices (such as a keyboard) will not turn on. Supplies seems to work perfectly well with the error led out of power and both of the Green led on the power supply on. The drives at the front lights up but then after 2 seconds the led for every hard drive goes off and then when you reconnect the drives it will be on for 2 seconds then turns off.

  I tried:

  Reset all RAM chips and CPU in the case

  Replugin all hard drives from the server

  I tried multiple monitors

  has tried just using the power supply instead of the power brick or a surge protector

  and tried to run it only out of a raid, everything ends up in the same result

  I have no idea what to do so im just going to ask the community of dell. Thank you!

  Hello.

  What is the error specific are you? Try the system at least to the POST with the following components:

  • System Board
  • Processor
  • A bar of memory in DIMM1-A or B-DIMM1
  • Power supply
  • Riser
  • Control Panel and bottom of basket (necessary only when the last power state was off. Ensure that all USB devices, including the keyboard are disconnected.

• Disc question PowerEdge T300 Perc 6 / I Raid 5

  I have a PowerEdge T300 with Perc 6 / I and Raid 5 with 3 hot swap 15 k 146 GB disks and 1 hot spare in the fourth slot from the backplane. Drive HARD 0 is orange flashing while HDD1 thru HDD3 are green. I have a new hard drive to install. I have to restart under the Perc 6 / I installation, disable HDD0, then turn the power off and replace it and walk back in Perc 6 / I and add the new disk and restart. Drive HARD 0 rebuild in the table or what I need to assign the new drive as the new hot spare? Are there instructions on how to replace a drive like that?

  Thank you

  Mark

  Once in the controller and you can just physically pull the failed drive. After removing, then wait a moment and insert the new drive. If the virtual disk has been degraded, then it should start to rebuild on its own once the replacement is inserted. If the virtual disk has been Optimal, then physically pull the drive and insert the replacement. Then in the BIOS OF THE controller, you can configure the replacement as a hot spare.

• PowerEdge R310 Perc S300 Raid 10

  I'm trying to set up a PowerEdge R310 with a Perc S300 and 4 x 2 TB drives and raid 10 server r2 2012.

  I set up the raid 10 by pressing the R command during startup.  It implements the fine.  I then put in my dvd openmanage systems management and run the installer.  This is where the problem begins.  with all the 4 - 2 TB drives and raid 10, I should have 4 TB of hard drive space, and it is only showing 2 TB.

  I canceled the installation, rebooted and changed the UEFI BIOS.  the problem here is with the UEFI boot, server does not start on a dvd, instead, it starts directly to flash disk (this is where the BONE is).  It works fine too, but at the beginning of the installation, he said: "we have found all the readers" and it wants me to install the drivers.  I sail to openmanage dvd and can not find the drivers.

  once more I cancel the installation.  I switch back to normal UEFI bios, openmanage dvd start and try and reconfigure raid of openmanage.  everything sets up very well, but in the end of the process when it prepares the files, it gives me an error saying ' deployment failed due to: Boot controller culd details can not be retrieved ", and my only option is to restart.

  I reboot and start all over again.

  My only option so far is to install NO UEFI and don't have 2 TB of hard drive space, but I really want to use all 4 to.

  Help, please!

  The OpenManage DVD has no drivers in the format you need for use during a manual of OS installation - you need to get them from the support.dell.com site (or ftp.dell.com - you need the hard / ZPE file version).

  Have you checked the UEFI boot options? You should be able to boot from a DVD using the UEFI. And what do you mean that you can start only "directly to the flash drive? If you can start on a flashdrive in UEFI mode, then why not install Windows from a flash drive? And what do you mean "this is where the BONE is?

• Dell Poweredge 2850 and ESXi 4.1

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with 12 GB of RAM and two CPUs, hyperthreading with 350 GB of disk space.

  This box was initially installed with Redhat Linux ES 5.4 64-bit and OS 64 bit CentOS 5.5 with no problems, so I know the processor supports 64-bit.

  I then installed VMWare ESXi version 4.1 on the Dell Poweredge 2850 with no problems.

  Then, I created a few instances VM I want to install CentOS 5.5 64 bit.  During the installation of a VMware instance, I get this:

  msg.cpuid.notLongmodeQuestionFmt:This veritual is configured for 64-bit operating systems.
  However, the 64-bit mode is not possible.
  Longmode is disabled for this virtual machine.
  For more information, see http://VMware.com/info?id=152
  Continue without 64 bit support?

  Now the question I have is this: given that VMWare is problems with 64-bit OSes comments, how is it that I can install CentOS 5.5 64 bit on this Dell PowerEdge 2850 with no problems.  It seems obvious to me that the PowerEdge 2850 works well with the 64 bit OS but not ESXi 4.1.

  How can I get around this?

  Comments?  Thanks in advance.

  The dell series 8 (1850/2850) have no vt support, so not support 64-bit virtual machine, except 6850.

  The output of the processor shows the same thing, or rather, what he shows no vt in its ability.  It shows lm, long mode, so you can run 64-bit, that you are running ESX, but to succeed in this 64-bit support, you need the lm, you and vt, which you don't have.

  -KjB

• PowerEdge 1900 perc 5 / I controller battery replacement

  I have a replacement battery message in the Application to manage Open Dell for a Dell PowerEdge 1900 Perc 5 / i controller. If I replace the battery I lose the current RAID configuration? Also all the procedures available for the replacement of the battery?

  Thank you

  Jeff Hicks

  Here is a link to the manual, page 92 will give you the steps to replace the battery: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-1900_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf

  Your RAID configuration is stored on the discs. Turn the power off and replace the battery, then start back. Upon request, accept the configuration of readers and move forward.

  Kind regards