Server Dell r610 with PERC 6 / i controller

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• Driver problem: Windows Server 2008 R2 on server T110 II with PERC S300 (RAID10)

  I have the Dell PowerEdge T110 II server with PERC S300 RAID card.  I installed 4 hard drives & them set on RAID10 in initial configuration.  The card mother recognizes the PCI-E card, which in turn recognizes readers.

  I pop in the Windows Server 2008 R2 DVD and I start from DVD, but when I get to the part where I have to choose a file location, it appears that he is not a player available.  There is another option to add a driver.  Then I went on the site ( http://tinyurl.com/PercS300driver) downloaded appropriate driver, added to USB & when I get to this screen, I'm trying to add the driver.  However, he said "there is no signed in this folder drivers."

  Does anyone know what I might be missing?

  You are using the wrong driver.  The one you linked to says it's for Server 2008 x 86.  As 2008 R2 64-bit only, there is no way it will work.  Use this driver for 2008 R2 (you must change the drop down menu on site driver downloads / to the correct operating system):

  www.dell.com/.../DriverDetails

  Be sure to run first to extract it, and then put the contents extracted on your CD/DVD/USB for use with the link to load a driver.

• Have a R610 with PERC 6i, but only see options for RAID 0 or 1

  My Google-fu fails me. I'm completely lost here. I just bought a R610 with the following:

  (2) 2.4 GHz processors

  (5) 146 GB 15K SAS drives

  16 GB OF RAM

  Looking at the configuration utility I see only the options to create RAID 0 or 1. I was hoping to do RAID 10. Looking at the BIOS I have a PERC 6i, who should be able to RAID 10. Help.

  Thank you

  Mike

  Yes, you have the SAS 6/IR. None of these options you describe exist in the PERC. You will be limited in RAID 0 or 1.

• Initialization of the options in the system dell poweredge r610 with perc 6 / i raid controller

  Hello Sir,

  I have a new question on dell power edge, actually I wanted to know this server works on a raid configuration only and for the purpose of the security of the data, we are able to use a flash drive to object is initialized (os ex: esxi, linux, windows) server as well as data will be SAS and OS record store will be separated into a flash drive?

  Please clear my doubt... Thank you

  Thanks for the reply.

  Yes we do, the real problem is I want to start my server with flash drive, I don't want to use the hard drive for OS, HARD drive for storage and the flash drive for OS.

• What cables to use in the Dell r610 with the perc 6 / i

  So I bought my r610 as a system of bairbones so it is come with a controller raid or processors/readers. I got everything I need, except for substantive cable basket. Some came with my perc 6 / i, but the cables are for another similar server (they aren't the right length). Only cables that I found are $ 100 that I find shocking. Is there somewhere else I should look at / is there a certain type of cable for this server and to a certain length? Thank you!

  Cloveh,

  The cable that you would need for the Perc 6 / I'd be part # RF5PF for SAS 0 and room FTTNX for SAS 1 side. Let me know if it helps.

• 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.

• Expanding RAID 10 on Dell R730 with Perc h730P

  Hi all

  We try to develop an array of RAID 10 on a server rack with a h730P Perc controller Dell R730. We currently have 6, 600 GB SAS drives in RAID 10 Bay. When he clicks on the controls to perform an action it really gives us only to assign Global Hot Spare. There is no option for "Task Reconfigure" on the virtual drive to increase the table to include 2 new readers. I'm not sure how to proceed. It is a server recently bought last year. We use OpenManage Server Administrator to try to achieve this. Reading some forums it seems that we will see a "reconfigure tasks" on the drop of virtual drive, but we do not have.

  Thank you

  You cannot reconfigure a nested table of RAID (RAID 10, 50 and 60).

  You must save, create table, restore.

• 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?

• 3 physical disks in 1 TB in RAID 5 with only its 1 TB usable space incorrectly? Using a Dell PERC 6 / i controller.

  We have a server Dell PowerEdge with a PERC 6 / i controller. There are three physical disks for 1 TB. I created a RAID 5 array, but it seems that there is only 1 TB of usable space after you initialize the virtual disk RAID 5.

  What is wrong? I Googled what should be the size, and I think we should not 1 TB, 2 TB of usable space?

  Too bad. It looks like the physical disks are 500 GB in size, which makes sense.

• Online capacity expansion (OCE) with Perc 6 / i and omconfig

  Hello

  I have a server R710 PE with a PERC6 / i controller.

  I have a RAID 5 with 4 disks and now I need to expand available space.

  I replaced the old records of a 1 TB and enabled the RAID rebuild. I now have a RAID5 with 1 TB of the TB 2 available.

  I read that I could use to extend the RAID OMSA webinterface or omconfig command.

  In the web interface does not exist to "reconfigure" under System--> Storage--> PERC 6 / i--> virtual disks,--> RAID5. OMSA v7.1.0

  I then turned to the omconfig and found that something like this should work:

  / opt/Dell/srvadmin/bin/omconfig storage controller vdisk = 0 vdisk = 1 raid = r5 pdisk = 0:0:2, 0:0:3, 0:1:4, 1:0:5 action = reconfigures size = max
  but she translates:
  Invalid size setting: reconfiguring size cannot be specified by the user on this controller.

  Even if the PERC6 / i supports Online Capacity Expansion according to the documentation.

  Then I tried to use 'vdcapacityexpansion = yes sizeinpercent = 100' even though it is specified that only the H700 and H800 controllers support this. Of course it failed but where do I go from here?

  I have even 4 unused TB of disk space. Wouldn't be an idea to try to remove one disk and reset or is it at the level of the vdisk that change is necessary?

  Concerning

  Bo Riis

  This is not how Online Capacity Expansion works; It works by adding disks to the existing RAID, no replacement of discs with the largest.  For example, you could expand your RAID 5 4x1TB to a disc-5 (or more) RAID 5 by adding and reconfigure the table with other drives of 1 TB or more (even if only 1 TB would be used).  The only thing you can after replacement/repair of disks is individually create a second table on the disks (called slicing); It will appear to the OS as a new/entity 'drive '.

• 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.

• 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

• Using smart Windows Server with Perc 6i

  Hello everyone,

  I learned to put in place a health check on our server with a Perc 6i and after a long search without usable result I ask in this forum.

  Y at - there a Posibility to use the smart feature on Windows Server 2008 r2 and Perc 6i?

  If you would like more information, just ask.

  Thanks in advance

  DOM

  Yes, both of these tools have a CLI, so you can make scripts, here is the manual of the CLI server administrator as is the monitoring tool.

  FTP://FTP.Dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_electronics/esuprt_software/esuprt_ent_sys_mgmt/Dell-opnmang-Srvr-Admin-v7.2_Reference%20Guide_en-us.PDF

• Dell R730xd with mode PERC H730 and RAID/HBA

  Hi all

  I have a new Dell R730xd with a PERC H730 card. I have six 4TB readers connected to it. It works very well in RAID mode, but the map also has support for the 'HBA' mode In other words, the card works like a basic HBA and disables the RAID functionality. When the HBA mode map software can see the disks, but they never make it through the operating system. Readers are not detected in the MESSAGE as no RAID and there is no option to convert them to no RAID.

  I talked about this through with technical support, which have been really helpful, but we can't find a solution. It seems to work on their server, but not mine.

  So I write here to see if anyone else uses this configuration, or to find out if anyone has had the same problem and maybe even resolved. Let me know!

  Thank you
  Tim.

  We had the same problem as well. I was able to solve the problem but doing a factory reset in the HBA. After the reset and reboot retype again HBA configuration and activate the HBA mode and your good.

• BSOD drives when adding T110 ii with PERC H200 and SBS 2011 or Server 2008 R2-

  Bought the server next in November 2011

  PowerEdge T110 II

  ManufDate: 24/10/2011 market: 06/11/2011
  RAM: 16 GB (4 x 4) 1333 mhz UDIMM DualRanked
  Processor: Xeon E3-1270 3.4 Ghz, 8 M cache, Turbo, Quad Core/8 t (80W)
  RAID: Map Perc H200
  Drive: 2 x 600GB 15K RPM SCSI 6Gbps 3 .5in - RAID 1 Mirror SA
  SBS 2011 standard x 64 (works on Win 2008R2)

  SBS 2011 installed without a problem and the server works perfectly since December 2011.  Backups occurring twice per day to a USB attached hard drive external 1.5 to and OS patches applied on a monthly basis without problem.

  Company need more storage so it wanted to add 2 drives more (same spec as to purchase). I thought to try to turn the RAID 1 pair in RAID 10 set in order to keep the simple logical configuration (a single large logical volume which now seems to be 1.2 TB in size instead of 600 GB) - could get but not really someone to describe if it could be done for non-destructive way that requires not the complete system installation/restoration - so opted for just add the 2 new drives as a RAID extra 1 pair in order to not reach a stable, boot, partition operating system running on the current RAID 1 pair.

  Contracted for the Dell technician to come out to install 2 new readers, be clear that the service was not complete until I had an extra pair of RAID 1, appearing as a usable operating system.

  Technician arrived, installed readers, set the new RAID pair in the H200 configuration utility, rebooted the system and when the BONES began to load had a blue screen BSOD. Technician then disconnected drives newly associated (the level of the cables) to see if the system would boot - BSOD again on restart (both of now get us this "pleated" feel if you know what I mean). Then went into the raid configuration utility, removed the new raid 1 volume (which, by the way, is appeared above the one existing in the list - which is not very intuitive that one that has been added is Volume 1 and the existing old is Volume 2 in the utility). After the triple-checking that we had the right volume (it showed that 8% initialized over the other which was complete, as well as the corresponding drive port numbers), we have REMOVED the new volume (at this point I don't remember if we had replaced the cables for the readers to perform this action).

  At startup the system rebooted normally - we were all so relieved, don't talk over retries at the moment.

  Talk to Dell there seems to be a problem with the PERC H200 firmware or drivers. Has not affected the config initial of a single pair of RAID 1, however caused problems when you attempt to add another pair. Escalation of Dell support said that has happened several times with Windows 2008 (which comes from the SBS 2011) systems. They recommended that the firmware update and the PERC H200 card drivers.

  I turned to the technician and asked when we could plan the updates of the firmware and driver and told him that they wouldn't do that (not sure that I blame the poor guy, he was sweating bullets after the BSOD 2nd).  I explained that we have contracted for installation services which included ensuring that the pair of extra disk appeared also usable for the operating system and he said that I needed to talk to Dell that.

  You wanted to post information on issues with PERC H200 BSOD when adding disks on Win2008 (or SBS 2011).

  Waiting for response from Dell as to who will come on-site to complete the installation.

  Any info about the question to know if the update of the firmware/driver will solve the problem or if I can do with reliability a disk 2 RAID 1 for a 4 disk RAID 10 conversion without having to reinstall/restore system would be appreciated.

  There is NO migration route TO or FROM a nested RAID levels (10, 50, 60) on one of the PERC H series, so it goes from 1 to 10 of RAID is not an option (without backup/replace/create/restore).

  Firmware release notes do not indicate that a large part is added (although the "bugs" may be enough):

  -Addition of Support for > 2.2 to SAS hard drives

  -Small bug fixes

  I have not seen/heard talk of this problem (I don't have a H200), but it is possible that an update of the firmware can change the way it handles the new disks, newly configured RAID arrays, or even how it presents to the OS.

  Do you know if the technician checked to see if the original VD was marked as boot VD?