R710 - migration Perc 6 / i of H700i

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• 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.

• DELL PowerEdge R710 and PERC H700 RAID driver for WIn 2008 Std

  Hi all

  I have a DELL PowerEdge R710 with a controller RAID PERC H700.

  I try to install Windows 2008 Std 64 bit, but I can't find the driver. Even for the site web at support.dell.com. Can someone help me.

  THX in advance

  Even if you use a driver of 2008, it should at least recognize it, then you must be using the wrong driver or something wrong :)

  If you are installing 2008 R2, make sure that you use this file:

  If you install 2008 x 64, make sure that you use this file:

  With one, you must first unlock the .exe (right click on the .exe, properties, unlock), unzip / extract the files (run it and make a note of the default location), and then copy the 4 files on a CD, USB, etc., then when Windows tells you that he is not all hard disks, click on the link drivers load below to load the drivers from the media you have chosen.

• Additional disk on Dell R710 with PERC 6i controller

  I want to add an additional drive to an existing 5 RAID.  Can I do this without destroying the data?  If so, what is the procedure.

  Thank you

  You must CLEAR the foreign configuration on the first disc (storage, PERC, Information/Configuration, foreign/Clear in list dropdown controller). After compensation, it will show as a LOAN.

• Reference Dell r710 with Perc 6 / i

  Hi all, I'm new and I have a question / an interesting situation.

  I work at a place that has a side job and other corresponding testing of all 100% server hardware.  No not the internet key equipment and we can not use Dell openmanage, I know: (.)  Sometimes our side test was "played" with so that it becomes a bit different and we need to match the side work again.  So to make them the same as we want to be able to shoot one of the servers work drives RAID 1 it pop in the test part and rebuild tests disks RAID 1 hard sides.

  I tried this and it's not well.  I'm looking for the best way to do it?  You cannot use either of imaging software.  :(

  When I tried this, I pulled on all sides of tests of hard drives and fallen into one of the RAID1s on the side work.  Then I said yes to "import foreign disks" then I booted into the operating system and fell in one of the tests sides other readers thinking he would rebuild it, but it didn't.  I guess it's because it was still part of the former RAID1 VDs?  in any case, I then rebooted the testing server, deleted the old disks hard foreign config thinking the controller THEN let me rebuild on it, but still NOT!  I'll have to 'replace' the hard drive.  What I am doing wrong?  Is there a good way to do it?

  Thank you!!!

  -Thomas

  Disks using as as a replacement for a "backup" was never part of its design, but the process of moving the disks to a new controller is fully supported:

  1. CTRL-R start
  2. Remove the VD
  3. Power off
  4. Remove the old disks
  5. Insert the new drive
  6. Power on
  7. IMPORT the foreign configuration
  8. Insert the drive to rebuild... HOT!
  9. CTRL-R start
  10. CLEAR foreign config
  11. Assign the drive as a hot spare to begin to rebuild

  Curious to know your limits - no OMSA, no imaging software?

• Using disks SAS for R710 PERC 6 / i controller

  I have a server R710 with PERC 6 / i controller, which originally had two 136 GB SATA disks and I want to replace it with two drives of 500 GB SAS (Dell Constellation SED). I put the SAS disks in slots 0 and 1, turn on the server and the BIOS OF THE controller reports both as having failed. the top lit flashes yellow two disks. The firmware of the controller is v6.3.1 - 0003, A14, such as reported by the BIOS, set up the screen. While these drives are not new, I wonder if they didn't in fact or there is something else I have to do on the server to allow these disks to use. Can anyone give me any suggestions?

  Thank you, Daniel

  daniel_wu

  I even try to replace old disks together rather than "grow" one at a time. I don't think I can anyway because they are of different types of readers - SATA vs SAS.

  No, you can't... that's why I asked.

  daniel_wu

  How can I disable encryption on the drive? I want to just use it as a "regular" readers I don't think I've seen all the options on the PD MGMT screen. The drive came as failed and most of the options are grayed out.

  You can not turn it off.  PERC 6 can't stand NOT of SED - he has no knowledge of this feature, so it is impossible to turn off or manage otherwise.  There is no real 'options' on the PD MGMT screen... If they are displayed as foreign, then you must first clear the foreign configuration on the screen, VD MGMT (control of brightness, F2, foreign, Clear).

  If you do not have these options - no way to clear the foreign configuration or configure the drives in a RAID array, you probably cannot use these only disks on PERC 6 in all.  The H700 is supported on your server and supports the SED discs, although I don't know what are the requirements exist for them.

• 3 TB HARD drive does not work on PERC 6i

  Hello

  We bought Dell 3TO disks and install them in PE R710 with PERC 6i. Before you buy the disks, we checked online and he said that it is supported.  We have updated the firmware on it to the latest version.  BIOS is updated as well.

  Firmware Version 6.3.3.0002
  6.600.21.08 driver version
  6.3.9600.17031 Storport driver version

  It is the physical disk information below.

  ID 0:0:1
  Critical condition
  Name of the physical disk 0:0:1
  State has failed
  Bus SAS Protocol
  HARD drive support
  Revision A100
  T10 IP Capable No.
  Capacity GB 0.00
  Used 0.00 GB of RAID disk space
  0.00 GB of RAID disk space
  Hot spare no.
  Vendor ID HITACHI
  Product ID HUS723030ALS640
  Serial number. YHK2RS3G
  Part number is not available
  512b sector size
  Manufacturing day of is not available
  Week of manufacture is not available
  Year of manufacture is not available
  SAS address 5000CCA01AAE128D

  What should we do for the PERC to detect these drives?  He sees some 450 GB drives with no problems.

  Derwiche woul you to replace existing SAS cables. If you are using 2.5-inch disks you need two R145M part number. If you are using 3.5-inch disks you need to N170M SAS 0 part number and part P110M for SAS 1 number.

• VMDirectPath / Passthrough, Revodrive

  Hey guys,.

  I wonder if the following scenario would work.

  I have a Dell R710 with Perc 6 / i controller in there and the controller will be SAS RAID hard drives containing Vmware ESXI 4.1 and blah blah blah, I know that everything that works fine. These hard drives will be held of the guest OS.

  My question is, if I install it on the server:

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820227596

  I'd be able to VMDirectPath in one of the BONES invited? I don't know if VMDirectPath requires some form of compatibility, or as long as the host supports any device can be passed through. The Revodrive would only serve as an extra disc/partition within the guest operating system to host a SQL database. Since this is a pretty busy database, I was watching in the higher IOPS and read/write / s providing the device.

  The machine is a Dell R710, 2 x Xeon X 5670 CPU. PERC 6 / i Controller with SAS hard disks that will house vmware ESXi 4.1.

  Thanks in advance!

  I have a x 2 100 GB revodrive in a Dell R810, ESXi 4.1.0 348481 running. The revodrive is enabled for passthrough, I gave it to a Server 2008 R2 x 64 VM. I installed the x 64 Windows 7 driver, which works very well. However, the driver cannot see the drive and nothing appears in disk management. As I see it does not unfortunately.

• Upgrade a R710 with SAS 6/ir with a PERC

  I have a situation to come and advice/suggestions would be appreciated...

  I have a R710 with 6 x 3.5 inches disks chassis and populated with 6 disks (2 x 136GB and 4 x 300 GB) SAS
  The server was poorly specified before buying and bought with a SAS6/ir controller

  The server is an Exchange area.
  Operating system is on C:, which is a RAID-1 using the 2 x 136 GB SAS drives
  Data on D: which is a RAID 1 using 2 of the 300 GB drives
  The other 2 players are sitting doing nothing as the SAS 6/ir can support 2 virtual disks and only RAID 0 or RAID-1

  The problem is the volume of data is closer to capacity and I really need to use the replacement disks.
  After reviewing several options, it seems to me that the only viable solution is to get a PERC H700 and import foreign VDs but I read that import a SAS 6/ir VD containing a Windows operating system in a PERC H700 is not possible/supported.
  I believe important to the volume of data would be ok and then I could use RAID level migration and online capacity expansion to add replacement discs and convert RAID-1, RAID-5, air-conditioned and with minimal downtime.

  If importing an OS disk is a non-runner, is a server to rebuild the only option or miss me something?
  For example, can I run a SAS 6/ir beside a H700 leaving the BONES on the SAS 6/ir and leaving the H700 handle data?  If so, how it works in what concerns the installation of the additional card in elevators and wiring to the speakers?

  As I said, any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks in advance,
  Andy

  "BSOD with the STOP 7b junior Boot Device."

  This is because they use different drivers and the drivers loaded in Windows for the 6/iR do not talk to the H700.

  What you might try is to boot to Windows on the SAS6/iR, with the H700 inserted (but not connected to anything), let Windows detect the device to load the drivers for it, then try to readers the PERC.

• PERC H310 H710p migration

  Hello

  I'm not an expert in RAID configurations but I am in charge of server Dell T320 my company and we will replace the storage controller that comes with it (H310) with a PERC H710p. We have a configured RAID-1 and we will continue to use the two disks of same after migration. We will replace the controllers.

  I know I have to do a backup before you replace the Exchange, but we will lose the RAID-1 configuration and data (including the operating system) after migration? Or it will be transparent to the system after reboot?

  Where can I find a type of paper that could guide me through this process because I don't want to wreck anything.

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  Jorge

  Hello.

  It is advisable to back up your data before performing any maintenance task. Ensure that you have a backup is valid data. The PERC H710 P supports the migration of virtual disk controller PERC H310. As a best practice, make sure that the hard drives and firmware H710 P is up to date. Replace the H310 and update the H710 P firmware with the controller cables disconnected from the background. Stop the server and connect the cables of the controller in the background and then restart.

  Your RAID configuration can be transparent to the system or appear in a foreign configuration. Clear the foreign configuration through the utility OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) or Ctrl + R for the POST.

  I would like to know how it works for you.

• 2nd R710 PERC causes high rpm fan

  I installed a PERC H800 alongside of the already installed PERC 6 / i... Before installing the H800 server was quiet, the fans ran very low.  After you have installed the H800 fans run at 11-12 K rpm all the time.  Anything else except the addition of the second PCI card.  Is this normal?  Is that all I can reduce the fan RPM?

  The BIOS version of the R710's 6.4.0, firmware version 1.98

  The version of the firmware on the H800 is 12.10.7 - 0001

  The version of the firmware on the 6 / i is 6.3.3 - 0002, A-00

  Edit:

  http://ServerFault.com/questions/715387/how-do-i-stop-Dell-r730xd-fans-from-going-full-speed-when-Broadcom-QLogic-netxtr/733064#733064
  Found this, which is encouraging, but the IPMI raw codes do not work for the r710

  I consider this matter closed.  I spoke with Dell technical support by chat, it turns out that this server was still benefiting from the support.  They proposed initially that it was a temperature issue, which is obviously was not that the environment has not changed for this server in more than a year.  They also suggested that I have to move the map to the location PCI-E #3 by their engineer.  Apparently they are priority directions of slot.  I don't know if he was moving the map that made the tour or the fact that I had to turn off the system to move, but I was able to get all the fans (even fans of power supply) at a healthy level of mind.  Just so there is no confusion, here are the commands I used:

  ipmitool 0 x 30 0 x 30 raw 0x01 0x00 (this allows you to replace the system fan speed)

  gross ipmitool 0 x 30 30 x 0 0 x 02 0xff, 0x2c (it changes the speed of the fan, the last hexadecimal value has a range of 0 x 00 to 0 46.  I found that 0x2c is around 6 K rpm and pretty quiet but still allows sufficient air circulation to cool the system)

  I don't know yet why a RAID DELL card that is approved to be used in this server model this would cause.  I already have far too many hours trying to solve this problem, so I'll live with running these two commands in a cron to restart.  Yes, it should be run whenever the system is able to roll.

• Reference Dell R710 - Perc 6 / disc matrix (support 4 TB?), I supported

  Hi all

  Since then, we want to upgrade the hard drive 2 TB (3.5 inches) for a large as 3/4 to.
  Is there information on the matrix of disc official supported of PERC 6 / i?

  We use Seagate 2 TB 72kRPM (bought from Dell) on our R710 servers. If the PERC 6 / I can't stand 3 to/4 TB disk. Is it possible to order the H700 support 4 TB drive adapter?

  We have installed the latest firmware /bios,
  -Perc 6/i: 6.3.3 - 0002, A-00
  -System BIOS: 6.4.0

  Thank you and best regards,
  Caleb Wong

  PERC 6 does not support disks larger than 2 TB. The H700 is supported in the R710 and supports disks larger than 2 TB. I would not, however, use desktop or NAS drives.

• Adding additional disk space to Perc 6 / i server R710

  I have currently 3 250 GB installation as a raid 5 (original configuration) disks on a server R710 with a Perc 6 / i controller.  I ordered 3 discs (same readers) that we are running out of disk space. There is a set up disk C: and D:.  Can someone point me to instructions for adding these additional disks for the raid existing (drive D) without having dataloss?

  Thank you

  Gary

  If you don't have that one 'disk' listed in disk management, then you have only a single VD configured, which is good.

  You must install OMSA to broaden your VD. You then insert your new drives, make sure that they show as ready under physical disks, then go to virtual disks and select Reconfigure to your RAID 5. Adding two drives in your RAID 5 will add about 500GB (bit math makes it a little less) to your current Windows 'disk '. After the reconfigure statement, you will have something similar to below. Then, assuming that you do not run 2003, you click on the D: drive and choose Extend to finish with the second photo:

  

• PowerEdge T710 PERC H700 RAID level migration issue

  In my new role, I inherited a number of servers managed until now by someone else.  One of them is a PowerEdge T710 with a Controller PERC H700.  There are two matrices; the other has four 3TO disks in a RAID-5 configuration.

  I don't need the storage space any where near as much as the reliability factor.  Is it possible to do a migration on-site from RAID 5 to RAID-6 without disturbing data?  There is enough free space, and I have no problem losing a portion of the free space I have.

  "Is it possible to do a migration on-site from RAID 5 to RAID-6 without disturbing data?"

  Yes, BUT you can use this method by ADDING another disk.  RAID 6 requires a minimum of 4 drives.  Insert a disk "to hot', then in the software OpenManage (OMSA), go into storage, PERC, virtual disks and reconfigure in the drop-down list of tasks available for RAID 5.

  "There is enough free space, and I have no problem losing a portion of the free space I have."

  Apart from the fact that RAID 6 requires a minimum of 4 drives, even if you want to spend a 4 drive RAID 5 has a 4-drive RAID 6, it could NOT be done.  You can't make a smaller table.  The controller doesn't know - or care - on real data of BONE on the disks (so the amount of 'free space' is not serious) and is not worried about virtual disk space (which would be filled if the total capacity of the discs has been used).

• Adding PERC H700 3 drives in PowerEdge R710

  Hi all

  I need to increase the storage on a server running non-critical virtual machines.

  I currently have 3 x 600GB discs and a VD in raid 5.
  We will be adding 3 more identical drives, staying in raid 5 to increase storage.

  I read a few posts about similar improvements where the user was instructed to use OMSA to add readers and keep the data. This server is not running Windows, it works VMESXi 5.5.0.  I'll add the disks directly by the PERC controller... My data at risk doing this? Should I rely on the added time to re - install VMESXi and restore my VMs?

  Thanks in advance!

  J

  Hello

  You are wanting to add the new disks for RAID 5 existing or create a new RAID 5? If you create a new, do it in the controller should not be any problem. If you are wanting to expand the existing table that needs to be done in OMSA and not in the controller. You can use OMSA for ESXi http://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/19/article/Product-Support/Self-support-Knowledgebase/enterprise-resource-center/Enterprise-Tools/OMSA