PowerEdge R320 - S110 PERC upgrade to PERC H710

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• PowerEdge R720 and PERC H710

  For the life of me, I can't the controller to detect the physical disks. These are Dell brand discs. Any specific ideas of the BIOS settings, maybe I need to change?

  The box has been initially implemented RAID 10 on the S110 raid, but I removed that and tried with the software raid times off and on and still no luck.

  Don't see anything that would indicate a firmware issue, but:

  H710 PERC v21.0.2 - 0001

  BIOS v1.2.6

  Thank you!

  If you have not changed the cable then this is the problem. The willing S110 to a different connector than the PERC.

  

  In the diagram #24 is the S110 connector you are currently using. #22 is the PERC connector, you need to use now. Here are the part numbers for the cable:

  If you have the 2.5 "HDD backplane - MJCP4

  If you have the 3.5 "HDD backplane - MX3P7

• R320 substituting PERC S110 for a PERC H710 - without loss of data

  I think of his replacement (added?) a H710 PERC our R320.  The vehicle currently has a S110 (software raid controller?).

  Play safe I'll have a complete bare metal backup.

  Is it possible to add a PERC H710 with my original two disks in RAID 1 and do not go through a complete reinstallation or backup recovery?

  It would make life so less irritating...

  Thanks in advance!

  Sincerely,

  Chris H.

  Hi cmhippy, yes you certainly would need back up you data, it is not possible to transfer RAID configurations of a software to a hardware RAID controller RAID controller.

• PERC H710 options

  Just got a PowerEdge T320 with controller Perc H710. There are a few configuration options undocumented in the help manual, or online. Cannot find anything on the web as well. It is "set the speed of the link to G3" and "Disk Cache". What are doing? And how to configure them, taking into account that the server will run Windows server 2008 R2?

  Simon

  Probably best to leave 'Disk Cache' disabled... the controller uses a battery backup cache, so if the system loses power, the unwritten data is kept in the cache.  Disk cache HARD disc has NO protection, so if the power is lost on the server, data not written to the disk cache will be lost, causing corruption.  This should be used if you have taken extraordinary measures to ensure that the system never loses power (or the integrity of the data is not critical).

  I can't that guess the 'Set Link Speed to G3' might actually be 3G, which means she restricted protocols of flow to 3 Gbps (SATA II/SAS I) instead of the 6 GB/s (SATA III/SAS II) that he is capable of.  If you use the appropriate drives (SAS or enterprise SATA II/III), there should not be any reason to enable this, because it's probably a compatibility setting for SATA I / II of readers whose speed cannot be used correctly with the controller, but if you use decent readers, that shouldn't be a problem.

• Disabled option to create new VD - PERC H710

  I have 5 x 1 TB SATA RAID-5, works very well. My goal is to add new SAS drive 2 x 3 TB RAID-0 having.

  Two issues I found.

  1 - new record added shown State as foreign menu PD Mgmt.

  2 - the 'Create new VD' option is disabled or grayed out. Why?.

  Thank you.

  -Type of server Dell PowerEdge R720

  CONTRL - RAID PERC H710

  1. the foreign configuration must first be deleted. VD MGMT, F2, foreign, clear.

  2. create is disabled because the disks are foreign and not available for use.

• PERC H710 downloads?

  Page drivers and downloads for my T320 doesn't seem to understand anything for the Perc H710 RAID controller I.  I searched Dell support site and did not find a relevant page.

  Where can I find updated firmware to date and any other software that I might want to use to keep the controller to update?

  Thank you

  Andrew

  They are under SAS RAID.  Here is the firmware:

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/product/PowerEdge-T320?driverId=DK9F9&osCode=WS8R2&FILEID=3188832303&LanguageCode=en&CategoryID=SF

  What OS?

  Keep the OMSA (OpenManage Server Administrator) to update will inform you when the firmware/drivers are obsolete:

  http://www.Dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/product/PowerEdge-T320?driverId=CWHRG&osCode=WS8R2&FILEID=3267736217&LanguageCode=en&CategoryID=SM

  (Download and run to extract the files, and then run C:\Openmanage\windows\setup.exe, add yourservernameoripaddress:1311 to the Intranet Zone of IE).

• Divide a virtual disk in two virtual disks PERC H710

  Hello guys,.

  -We have a server PowerEdge R720 with a PERC H710 Mini storage controller which has 8 drives 1 TB each of them.

  -We have created a virtual disc, which includes 8 physical disks configured in Raid 5.

  -We have installed Windows 2008 Server R2 and we got 4469 GB no allocated space that we cannot use due to the limitation of the disks of the Basic.

  

  What we really want to do is reclaim the unallocated space of the existing virtual drive and put it in a new one, so that we keep 3 disks for the virtual disk 0 and we use the 5 others for the new virtual disk 1.

  -Is that possible without destroying the data we have?

  -Help please!

  Thanks in advance and sorry for the bad English :(

  Unfortunately, there is no way to do it without restarting.

  Option 1

  What you have described, you could divide drives upward into distinct from VD, leaving a 2 TB or smaller for the operating system.  It will cost you a value of an extra disk to disk space (VD0 RAID 5 = 2 TB, VD1 RAID 5 = 4 TB).

  Option 2

  You can create "slices" on the disks - you still all 8 disks in a disk group, but you would cut a smaller VD for the OS, and then the rest of the disc space can be a VD for data (each VD will appear as a "separate" disk in Windows, so the second VFD can be converted to GPT and be as big as you want While the first VFD remains an MBR disk to boot into the operating system in BIOS mode.  This will give you return a value from an extra disk to disk space over Option 1 (VD0 RAID 5 = 100 GB, RAID 5 = 6.9 to VD1).

  Option 3

  You can switch mode UEFI, create a VD with all 8 disks (as you did), convert the GPT disk, then install.  UEFI is necessary at the start of the GPT disks and GPT is required for disks larger than 2 TB.  It would also keep 7 TB of usable disk space.

  You can also consider a RAID 6, if you can accept the value of another drive 1 TB of disk space.  Since a reconstruction of the drive may take 1 to 2 days or more, a RAID 6 would provide better tolerance to failures and protection during the vulnerable period that the disc is out of line or reconstruction.

• Reference DELL T420 - battery on PERC H710 adapter controller

  Hello

  I received a yellow warning

  Reference DELL T420 'Battery on PERC H710 adapter controller'

  What it means?

  What should I do?

  Order the new battery?

  It is a simple replacement mission?

  Is it essential?

  Update:

  test URL

  http://www.Dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN130018

  Have nothing, everything seems fine now...

  Thank you

  It is normal so he can make a full discharge of the battery as part of his learning cycle every 90 days. Make sure that this isn't that. If this isn't the case, the reason, give it 24 hours. If it is fully charged, update the system (including RAID firmware, driver first) firmware. If not fully charged yet or it reproduces quickly, then replace the battery - power down to replace.

• Cable for T320 8x3.5 to Perc H710

  I have a T320 with backplane replaceable 8x3.5 SAS drives hot. I ordered a Perc H710 (p/n 342-4203) to replace the H310. The SAS cable has the wrong connectors for the H710.

  I chatted with Dell this morning and they told me that I needed the manufacturer Dell cy7n1. I ordered this. However, after ordering, I searched online and the images seem to show a cable with only one connector at each end.

  What is the correct cable I need?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  CY7N1 is a cable to connect to a backplane 4HDD. Background cable basket of 8HDD is DJXF7.

  Thank you

• PowerEdge R710 and perc h700, disc not visible in OS

  Hey,.

  We have PowerEdge R710 with perc h700 raid 5 controller physical drives under raid6 running. We have recently added a sixth of the road which is much smaller (512 against 4 TBS) we want to just format and use it as a normal drive in the OS (Ubuntu 12.04.5).

  However, the drive is not visible in the operating system. When you enter the settings of the RAID controller that it says that the drive is READY but not configured and all the options to the title of operations are grayed out. How can we make this hard drive is visible in the operating system?

  See you soon

  The H700 does NOT support non RAID, so all records first must be configured on the controller, before its presentation to the BONE. You must configure (initialize) as a single drive RAID 0.

• Installation of windows server 2008 R2 on Poweredge R320

  Hello everyone

  We bought a new Poweredge R320 server in order to install 64-bit Windows Server R2. There are 2 drives inside and they are preconfgured as raid1.

  I changed the configuration of SATA in RAID mode and also initialized by PERC-H310 RAID1 without any problem. When the server starts up, I see the following messages.

  We found no Raid 0 disks

  1 Vitrual disk (s) were found.

  
  I can boot from the windows media but no disks are found and is prompting me to browse and install the drivers from nesseray. So I downloaded

  SAS Raid drivers from this link: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/poweredge-r320.html#Drivers%20for%20OS%20Deployment

  Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit driver for controllers in PERC H310/H710/H710P/H810 Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit driver for controllers in PERC H310/H710/H710P/H810

  Recommended

  5.2.220.64

  18/10/2012

  Windows Windows Server 2008 R2

  The name of the file is: DRVR_WIN_M20VR_5.2.220.64_A02_ZPE.exe

  I extracted the contents of a USB, restarted the server and when you are prompted for drivers during the windows installation, I traveled to USB which 2 files are found.

  nodev.inf

  percsas.inf

  I tried both of them, but every time I get a message saying to make sure that the correct drivers are found. It seems that is not the correct drivers.
  

  Could be he you please direct me to the correct drivers? Or if you have any suggestions please let me know.

  Thank you very much

  Goudeuk

  PS: I posted the same topic in the forum "Blade" by mistake. Apology.

  "Do you mean that if my BIOS/SATA configuration has been set to RAID 1 I should have drivers chipset/AHCI for a successful installation?"

  No, because you are not using the onboard SATA RAID - your built-in SATA is used ONLY by your optical drive, so it should not be in RAID and AHCI usually requires special drivers, which is not required when you use optical drives.  However, pilots of chipset/AHCI may have helped Windows to see the optical drive in such a way that the installation could proceed (if she needs the RAID controller for real hard disks, you will NOT see this particular message - you will see another message when Windows cannot find not all drives to be installed on).

  "When someone would set RAID 1 for sata configuration?"

  ONLY if you use the S110 RAID controller onboard.  You use the H310, so you don't want to mess with the SATA RAID on board.

• Installation of Windows server 2008 on Poweredge R320

  Hello everyone

  We bought a new Poweredge R320 server in order to install 64-bit Windows Server R2. There are 2 drives inside and they are preconfgured as raid1.

  I changed the configuration of SATA in RAID mode and also initialized by PERC-H310 RAID1 without any problem. When the server starts up, I see the following messages.

  We found no Raid 0 disks

  1 Vitrual disk (s) were found.

  
  I can boot from the windows media but no disks are found and is prompting me to browse and install the drivers from nesseray. So I downloaded

  SAS Raid drivers from this link: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/poweredge-r320.html#Drivers%20for%20OS%20Deployment

  Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit driver for controllers in PERC H310/H710/H710P/H810 Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit driver for controllers in PERC H310/H710/H710P/H810

  Recommended

  5.2.220.64

  18/10/2012

  Windows Windows Server 2008 R2

  The name of the file is: DRVR_WIN_M20VR_5.2.220.64_A02_ZPE.exe

  I extracted the contents of a USB, restarted the server and when you are prompted for drivers during the windows installation, I traveled to USB which 2 files are found.

  nodev.inf

  percsas.inf

  I tried both of them, but every time I get a message saying to make sure that the correct drivers are found. It seems that is not the correct drivers.
  

  Could be he you please direct me to the correct drivers? Or if you have any suggestions please let me know.

  Thank you very much

  Goudeuk

  Even I have the same problem... Can anyone suggest a solution?

  Thank you

  Scott

  http://www.vmexplore.com

• PowerEdge R320 cable for SATA?

  Hi all

  I recently bought a new (ok, almost new 'store') R320 server, that happened and seems to be wired to the SATA drives (non - hot). No hard drives have been included in the system - I was aware of this ;-)

  I also have two Dell 2 TB NearLine SAS / 6 GB/s / 7.2 k / 3.5 HD ... so my question is, what exact cable I need to buy & replace, so that I can use these SAS drives in my system which is already wired for SATA?

  What I read, the controller integrated PERC H710 supports SATA and SAS, then is it just a matter of buying the SAS cable and its connection to the SAS_A on the H710 port?

  Thanks in advance

  -Patrick

  My apologies. Discover one of these reference numbers:

  XP00F & H3YKR

  They should be available in the United Kingdom.

• Video card HDMI in DELL PowerEdge R320

  Buongiorno,

  Announcement of riguardo chiedo UN UN Dell PowerEdge R320 informazione:

  Ho di installare una scheda video by poter cute need a monitor HDMI quindi con uscita is dedicated.

  Could gentilmente elencarmi quali sono compatibility modelli con questo Server?

  Thank you, Andrea.

  Buongiorno,

  will one OTS ' email by putting our server it service tag del suo.

  Grazie

• Where can I buy screws for 3.5 "caddy for PowerEdge R320

  My PowerEdge R320 has 4x3.5"caddies at the front. I need screws to fix my hard drives in caddies.

  I can't find these screws anywhere. Where these can be purchased?

  Any decent hardware store. Take a a place like Home Depot to compare to get the right type.