Size of physical disk in RAID Utility

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  I think to set up a physical disk 4 RAID 5 array on my new PowerEdge T320.  That should give me enough space to last long.  I have two empty slots of HD.  If I need more space, later, I'll be able to add one or two additional physical disks without losing the data already on the virtual disk?  If so, how?  I don't see a way to do this in the manual of Perc 710.

  Thank you

  Andrew

  Yes, it is "doable" later.  This can be done in the PERC BIOS, but it can be done in OMSA (OpenManage Server Administrator) within the OS.

  One thing to keep in mind is the limit of 2 TB "floppy" Windows on BIOS systems compatible.  If you plan to 4x4TB disks in a RAID 10, that TB ~ 8 'disc' will be converted to the GPT and BIOS UEFI boot mode value.

• Minimum size of physical disk for vSphere.

  I buy a new server that comes with solid state disks, is a pretty big 32 GB drive for installing vSphere.

  The virtual machine will take place on an iSCSI san.

  Thank you

  Tim

  I think that the minimum size of the VMDK of Service (which is now stored on a VMFS partition) Console is something less than 10 GB.  Maybe 8 GB or more.  I think you'll be fine with SSD of 32 GB for installation of ESX.

• 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.

• VMware Workstation failed to mount the physical disk 10TB

  VMware workstation or any other product vmware does support more than 2 TB of physical disks?

  I am trying to connect a 5 of 10 TB raid enclosure and mount it on my ubuntu vmware workstation machine. The common error that I receive is when mounting the reader on ubuntu and I think it might have something to do with the size of the file.
  I am running vmware workstation 12 in windows 10.
  The disk is taken offline in windows and I'm under WS as an administrator.

  Error	VMDK CONTENT	DiskPart Info
  Operation failed on the file "\\.\PhysicalDrive1". If the file is located on a remote file system, make sure that the network connection and the server on which resides this disk to work correctly. If the file is saved on a removable medium, link media. Select Retry to retry the operation. Click Cancel to end this session. Select continue to pass the error to the guest operating system. I/o error, dev sdb, sector 11721553632 I/o error, dev sdb, sector 11721552128 I/o error detected. File system stop Please unmount the file system and to rectify the problem (s) metadata I/O error: block 0x2baa8b100 ("xlog_bwrite") error 5 numblks 8200 can not read the superblock	# Disk DescriptorFile version = 1 Encoding = "windows-1252". CID = 6f4a8bb1 parentCID = ffffffff isNativeSnapshot = 'no '. createType = "fullDevice." # Description of the measure RW 23441768448 DISH '\\.\PhysicalDrive1' 0 partitionUUID \\?\scsi#disk & ven_h #w & prod_raid5 #5 & 19bb575e & 0 & 010000 #{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} # The database disk #DDB ddb.adapterType = "free". ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "1024". ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255".

  ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63".

  DDB. Geometry.Cylinders = "16383.

  DDB. Geometry.Heads = "16".

  DDB. Geometry.sectors = "63".

  ddb.longContentID = "55c8f3052c372c02465d66656f4a8bb1".

  DDB. UUID = "60 00 C2 97 8 a 7 c c2 cb - 9 a 27 51 78 58 a7 e6 3f"

  ddb.virtualHWVersion = "12".

  H/W RAID5

  Disc ID: 00000000

  Type: SATA

  Status: Offline (policy)

  Path: 1

  Target: 0

  LUN ID: 0

  Path: PCIROOT (0) #PCI (1C07) #PCI (0000) #ATA (C01T00L00)

  Current read-only State: No.

  Read-only: No.

  Boot disk: No.

  Disk swap file: No.

  Disk hibernation file: No.

  Crash dump disk: No.

  Cluster disk: No.

  The official version said that WS allows only virtual up to 8 TB of disk.

  According to my own tests, it only limits the size of the VMDK for 'New - VM' Assistant.
  Once you have a greater vmdk - just tried a vmdk 10TB - WS won't complain about the size.
  I don't expect that WS will prevent the physical disks to use inside a virtual machine that is already configured.
  So in your case I think you started WS with a normal user account.
  Try to start as administrator WS - maybe even using the administrator account.
  I think that then it will work.
  Unfortunately, the error messages produced by vmware.exe are not really accurate-, so there is no way to know if you really have a bad super block.
  To test if this is really the problem and not just an error message - poor try to mount the drive directly.
  Please post the vmdk - want to know if there is something unusual about 5.5 TB in the disk.

• Qosmio G30-140 - Console problems on new install XP MCE Raid utility

  I just bought a Toshiba Qosmio G30-140 of second hand. It has 2 hard drives and I tried to install windows 7 with great difficulty due to the raid driver... I managed to cmplete installation and travels account that half the utilities would not work in compatibility mode... Solution, I decided to re install the original Windows XP Media Center Edition, as I didn't have the original disks, I had many days of trial and error downloading different versions to work on my system... FINALLY, I GOT THE RIGHT ONE...

  Here's my question:

  I want to set up my machine to use the 2 drives in RAID mirror in case of data corruption, although I tried to install the RAID utility using the restore disc, I had created before embarking on this mission - suicidal

  IT WILL NOT BE INSTALLED, AND CONTINUES TO GIVE ME THE SAME ERROR OVER AND OVER AGAIN, EVEN IF I AM LOGGED ON ADMINISTRATOR
  error message is "("TOSHIBA RAID Service"Service [kraidsvc] could start. Make sure that sufficient privelages to start the services.) »

  I'm stuck and tried a lot of combinations, different and re-installed the OS twice, I am an administrator and possess these privelages. HELP :((

  Hi mate

  Installing the RAID driver could solve this problem...

  Also, I guess you used the right RAID settings in the BIOS.
  As far as I know, you can change the RAID option in the BIOS on the last page (3-3)
  RAID0 means stripping and RAID1 mirror you want to use.

  After changing the RAID parameters, you must confirm this insert the string 1,2,3,4 and enter.

  But note; After changing this you will need new OS install

• Reference Dell MD3000i and degraded physical disk channel

  Nice day

  We have a Dell MD 3000i with an extra box storage. And today, there are two mistakes in the journal:

  1 physical disk channel set to gradient

  Date/time: 30.04.13 10:56:14
  Sequence number: 9783
  Type of event: 1209
  Description: Physical disk set to gradient channel
  Specific event codes: 0/0/0
  Event category: error
  Component type: channel
  Location of components: side physical disk: channel 1
  Recorded by: Module to slot 1 RAID controller

  2. each physical disk - gradient path

  Date/time: 30.04.13 10:56:14
  Sequence number: 9784
  Type of event: 1513
  Description: Individual physical disk - gradient path
  Specific event codes: 0/0/0
  Event category: error
  Component type: channel
  Location of components: side physical disk: channel 1
  Recorded by: Module to slot 1 RAID controller

  In this case recovery guru say "you must contact your technical support representative to correct this defect. Do NOT try to fix this problem yourself. So, how we can receive technical support recommendations and try to repair this failure?

  If you need more details, we can put any storage array profile output.

  Hello UtkinE,

  Yes, you will need to stop all iSCSI traffic so that you can update the NVSRAM.  With the timeout error you get all came from controller 1 & he had only discs 1 & 5.  The current version of NVSRAM you version 4 and the last one which is for the MD3000i is version 13.  With who have older firmware it was improvements to correct your problem in the latest versions of firmware.  I also had one of our analysts will confirm as well just to make sure that it is the best fix for your problem.

  Please let us know if you have any other questions.

• Upgrade the disks in RAID 6 array: what is the best

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 running Windows Server 2008 R2 and 6 x 75 GB 10K SAS drives.  PERC 6 / i controller RAID 6 with 5 drives + HS 1 (total 6 discs)

  I have 6 x 300 GB 10K SAS drives ready to trade.

  I read everything I can on hot swapping etc and what I can't find is any method to close the front discs actually pulling them.  Supposed to be via Computer Manager-> storage but not here?

  Restarted, Ctrl + R, in the controller BIOS, nothing there either.

  I have therefore 2 options:

  (1) go for it, just pull up a disc and put in a new and let them rebuild.  Repeat x 5

  (2) stop, change the music, etc.  I don't like to stop a perfectly functional server...

  Looks like #1 would be better, but without the stop disk option I'm not sure...

  Then there is the whole operation in general.  It is best to:

  (1) hot-swap & rebuild

  (2) make a backup to disk image, on all readers of a sudden and restore?

  Looks like #2 would be better... but I don't still need to re - install the software on the array of naked?

  Hello

  budcarlson

  I read everything I can on hot swapping etc and what I can't find is any method to close the front discs actually pulling them.  Supposed to be via Computer Manager-> storage but not here?

  The operating system has no control on the disks. The drives are controlled by the PERC. You must use either a software that allows the management of PERC as OpenManage Server Administrator or boot directly on THE controller's BIOS.

  You should have an option available for the physical disks offline before removing a table. Which will allow you to remove a disc without causing data corruption.

  budcarlson

  Then there is the whole operation in general.  It is best to:

  (1) hot-swap & rebuild

  (2) make a backup to disk image, on all readers of a sudden and restore?

  Looks like #2 would be better... but I don't still need to re - install the software on the array of naked?

  The best practices and the method supported is to back up the data, create a new RAID array with new drives, reinstall, and then restore the backup.

  Hot swapping and reconstruction are the best way to do this, but the simplest is not the best way. If you choose to rebuild and hot-swappable, you will also need either to create a new RAID array (sliced table) to use the new space or change the markup for the table.

  Thank you

• UCS C220 M3 beep because of the failed disk in raid 5

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  I have a server UCS C220 with 8 disks configured in RAID 5, which will beep continuously with 1 sec to 1 dry ground - indication of a problem of disk raid. Verification through CIMC, one of the drives (slot-7) is coming as faulty with the advice to "Reinstall or replace the storage disk. I have referred a case of TAC for this, got the disc replacement and installed. Suggested documentation its hot so just shot old and installed a new.

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