Size of the RAID Volume?

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• HP ENVY 750-170se: cannot access the RAID configuration via Ctrl + i on startup

  I activated the RAID in BIOS > Storage Options > SATA emulations.

  There are 2 drives HARD correspondents attached to the SATA 2 ports & 3.

  At startup the Intel Rapid Storage screen shows the two discs. It shows the prompt to hit "Ctrl + I" to enter setup.

  However: when I hit, stand or mash Ctrl + I, before, during and after the screen from the IRS, it never penetrates RAID installation.

  What keeps me to enter RAID configuration menu?

  Is there some SATA ports I need the HARD drive to be attached to the?

  Motherboard is the model 2B4B, verson A0.11 BIOS

  Based on this post I tried to use Intel Rapid Storage to make the RAID. TSRI was not installed/available in Windows so I donwloaded it... during the installation I was told there was a newer version already installed (which is weird because I couldn't access it).

  TSRI in Windows made the RAID volume. No need to enter during POST/boot.

• drives no raid after installing a new hard drive, deleted a raid volume.

  I recently installed a new hard drive on a dimension 9200. One of the two hard drives in the pc has been a failure. After installing a new drive, I had a working old drive and a new drive, I installed vista on the new drive and found I couldn't see the old drive in the computer, also the raid volume was always the same that before removing one of the old disks. After you delete the raid volume, I have now two non-raid drives. My pc would be better if I change those two to a Raid volume as were the two previous albums, and if yes, how can I do.

  
  

• (Redirected) Replace R4 MB and the RAID does not

  My mother board 7JNH0 Aurora original R4 does not, so I found a replacement for the same thing make and model, but the part number is FPV4P.  seems to be a PIN for the replacement of the PIN.

  When I installed the new MB it does not start with the raid drives.  It was established as a RAID 0 + 1.

  The BIOS sees the 4 HD and is set to RAID.

  Configure the RAID sees readers and says volume 0 is normal and all four pilots are reported as part of the volume.

  What other settings I need to change to get the new motherboard to see the RAID volume?

  Thank you!

  Better in this position in the Alienware owners Club Forum, here:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/Owners-Club/Alienware/default.aspx

  Bev.

• Option "Reconfigure" in vCenter 4.1 to enlarge the size of the partition system on WIndows 2003

  I had just noticed this and I was wondering if I could use this option to expand the system (c) on a Windows 2003 Server partition.

  I know there are several ways to do this but, in the past, I was always a V2V, change the size of the C: volume during conversion and once checked... delete the original virtual machine.

  The "reconfigure" appears it can accomplish the same thing faster. Is this true?

  vmproteau wrote:

  I know for the VM helper method but use the V2V method because it offers a simple uninstall. Had not used the GRET, but I'm not like all the other suggestions, it works fine. I think that it is not well supported by Microsoft.

  Here's how a good to use a helper VM.  Hower, be very careful that your VM is not no matter what instant assets.

  http://vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=2k3resize

  To my question, 'reconfigure' offers another option for extension of partition for the WIndows 2003 System. I'll try it in the lab, but I was wondering if someone has already done this successfully.

  No, it reconfigures option does not increase the volume in the guest operating system.

• Cannot change the size of the virtual disk in a converted VM

  Hi, I have converted many physical machines into virtual machines using the VM converter. All off them were converted using the minimum for their HDs size so that the conversion process minutes last as little as possible. Because now there are in all readers of 'C' for all virtual machines only 1 GB of free space I want to resize their virtual disks. The problem is that I can resize them to a larger size, but Windows does not allow me to expand the volume inside Windows. When I want to expand the size of the Windows volume shows me a message saying "the selected volume is a system disk or a boot disk, or it was created in an earlier version of Windows, a basic disk. It cannot be extended.

  I am attaching two files. The first is the configuration of the VM. The second is the error that appears inside of Windows. The message is in Spanish cause that Windows is in that languaje, but I have translated from English in the previous paragraph.

  Is anyone of you know why this kind of errors appear? Does perform a work around? It seems that the problem is because the converted Convert the HD as a base virtual HD. In this format (Basic) Windows does not allow to expand. You have to change its format in Dynamics to develop, but when you try this error appeard.

  The first work-around, I thought to do is to make a picture of this disc with Ghost and try to paste this image into a new hard drive for the virtual machine, but I don't know if it will work.

  Thank you.

  Warlock.

  I have had success in utility Dell ExtPart help to resize on the fly without interruption of service to initialize volumes (drives C :).  Other methods such as attaching the drive as a data volume to another server or using GParted require at least downtime of this virtual machine and often down more than one time.  With ExtPart, I was able to avoid it completely.

  Check out this blog for more information post:

  http://blogs.kraftkennedy.com/index.php/2009/06/30/expand-virtual-machine-boot-volumes-with-no-downtime/

• ESXI4 installation, best practices RAID, Stripe size, VD, the partitions?

  Hi all

  I have server Dell Poweredge PE2970 with PERC6 / I and PERC6/E RAID controllers.

  and the Bay of Dell Powerwault MD1000 storage.

  PERC6 / I is conducted 6 x 150 GB, 10,000 rpm, SATA drives. (560 GB RAID 6) and,

  PERC6/E is engine x 15 x 1 TB 5400 RPM, SATA drives. (12 to RAID 6)

  This combination is used to provide iSCSI and NFS services for film and music production environment.

  I plan to create 3x100Gb, 1x200Gb, and 1x60Gb virtual disks of 560 GB RAID 6 array.

  60 GB to install VMware ESXI4 and StorMagic SvSAN.

  100 GB for virtual machines (Linux, Windows, NFS, AD, backup, servers etc.)

  100 GB for Audio iSCSI (work Pro Tools disk)

  100 GB for video iSCSI (work Pro Tools disk)

  200 GB for iSCSI Virtual Instruments (used by Pro tools)

  and 6 x 2 TB of storage, backups, etc.

  How to create these virtual disks when I create RAID arrays?

  What Strip size to use?

  How about this VD 60 'system' VD ESXI4 and SvSAN, or 100 GB 'virtual machine' for other servers?

  I had to do it like this, or should I create a 160 GB VD, for all the servers and facilities of ESXI?

  or should I create a VD to each their own?

  I mean like VD 1 GB for ESXI4, 25 GB (two partitions of 5 GB and 20 GB) VD for SvSAN, VD (two partitions 40 GB and 40 GB) 80 GB for Windows server.

  5 GB VD for Audio Linux NFS, 100 GB VD for iSCSI server, etc. In this solution, I could choose a different distribution for each VD size.

  I know this isn't the best solution, and in the future I could replace all the drives 10,000 rpm with fast SSDS 32 GB (128 GB RAID6)

  for the system and servers, and have a second table MD1000 for iSCSI disks dedicated 10,000 rpm. But for now, it's how to deal with.

  All suggestions and advice are welcome.

  Concerning

  Petzu

  We create a 5120 MB vd for esxi installation.  5121 actually like the perc bios rounds.

  Then we can recreate all installing esxi without touching anything else.

  The virtual machine are limited in the size of their maximum vmdk. For example, you could create just the minimum number of data warehouses.

  Keep it simple and straightforward unless you have a specific reason to diverge.

  Let me paraphrase what mentions a dev to vmware, (it was in what concerns the amendment of vmfs default block size and I like to think that it is also applied to vmware Scheduler, a great great piece of programming). "We optimize, so you can just go with the default value and know he's going to do the right thing."

  The default size of the distribution is a good compromise, optimized to work under most workloads; different size block sizes can have radically different performance based on the workload characteristics.  The default value works well and 2008 and later versions of the most recent vm of windows properly aligned on 64 k.

  Dell has a ton of technical documents by comparing the performance of raid levels.  Already a few months that we are talking about performance raid comparng and I whimper.

  If it needs to be super fast I pick up 10, lots of space 5, more reliable but more space, and then from 10 to 6.

  Dell technology said that most of the people raid 5, because disk is so reliable.

  We use raid 6 for reliability on volumes in addition to 12. Depending on the level of incorrigible error on a raid of 12 to rebuild.

  http://m.ZDNet.com/blog/storage/why-RAID-6-stops-working-in-2019/805 (which implies an ure 12^{14 and I think I'm 12 years old company records}15 ure).

  The backup raid controller cache battery alleviates some of the supposed raid 6 over raid 5 performance drops.

  In your case I use raid 5 for warehouses of operational data for performance and raid 6 for the backup data store.

  In addition a synthetic benchmark not always told you the return you will get with a real application in an operating system.

  When we first virtualized mysql, according to our benchmark iometer, we thought performance would be an order of magnitude worse. In practice, they were good enough that we went hog wild and virtualized of many others.  You should always be aware of the performance characteristics of your application.

  For example, we have two pairs of distinct mysql replication, and each of them get their own volume 5 disc on the md1000 even.

  Heterogeneous workloads on the same volume of mixture, specifically servers oversees with lots of random file io and vm with support for example sequential access will hurt the performance of the database.  ESXI 4.1 storage io control feature is designed to mitigate this.

  The funniest on the axles and raid controllers, it's that sometimes a lot of slower batteries will out perform less higher speed axes.

  If you think you aggregate read the md1000 on performs faster small volume.

  Battery learn cycle is running all 90 days or more and turn off the cache writeback, which hurt performance. He must run because the cache battery degrades over time, and he needs to know when the battery lasts less than 24 hours.  It determines this by measuring the time it takes to recharge.

  We have never noticed this or necessary to adjust it to our server by default openmanage farm, I just thought I would mention it because we were on a subject very.

  Install openmanage for esxi.  Disable the cache on individual disks, as this cache is not battery backup.

  Don't forget to document your config, because it won't remember what you were doing when you do a recovery.

• Configurator error 'the hard size in the first string of RAID must be smaller than the drive selected in the second Raid channel'

  Hello, I hope this is the forum for this question rigth.

  I am trying to set up a new T330 for one of our customers, and I want to use a Raid 1 + Raid 1 configuration. First raid for the operating system and daily backups, second raid for a database.

  I tried the C15c configuration, but I always get the error "the size of the hard drive in the first RAID channel must be smaller than the selected hard drive in the second Raid channel".

  Is it really necessary to buy an SSD that is bigger than the HD used in the first Raid? The DSS may be relatively low, but I need more space for the backup.

  Is there an alternative solution to this?

  Thanks in advance,

  Stefan

  Yes. In fact, you can mix drive types on the SAME channel... they just cannot be mixed in the same virtual disk (table).

• Cannot increase the size of the volume of windows

  Hello

  I increased the size of the volume in Dell EqualLogic Group Manager (GUI). On windows, I see that volume capacity is 200, but it does not increase the size of 200 GB. After scanning disk total size shows that only 100 and not any unallocated space available size. Is - this 2012 windows bug? don't know where to start troubleshooting. The server cluster connection is via iSCSI.

  I see unreserved space EqualLogic, but not in windows,

  Thank you

  Hello

  It * should * work, but it seems that perhaps services cluster prevents the operating system of new reading ability.  Could take a failover or even restart the cluster nodes so that it can see the new space.

  If you have the support of MS, it would be worth a call to them as well.

• the System volume information folder size is 834 gb in my 1 TB external hard drive

  hard drive worked well he had 850 GB of space left, when I started the hard drive with bitlocker encryption

  disk space became only 6 GB so by wizztree app, I saw what took so he showed the havin folder (system volume information) the size of the space

  834 GB!

  Donno wat to do

  pls help me out here

  Wait for the BitLocker encryption to finish. It does get rid of data left behind from deleted files. The 6 GB is left to allow you to continue working while encryption is performed.

  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449438 (v = ws.10) .aspx #BKMK_FreeSpace

• Is there a (best practices concerning the) maximum volume of Appstack size?

  I can't find the specific recommendations on the maximum size of an appstack.

  We want to create a model of 50 GB or even more. Someone at - it experience with this scenario?

  The default size is 20GB, so if you want to create an appstack which is 50 GB you will need to create a new model with 50 GB of disk space.

  I've heard of writable volumes (not appstacks, I know, but still it's just as a reference) are large 100 GB. The maximum file size of the appstack, as far as I can see, is limited to the file size VMWare supports (somewhere in the terabytes? Anyone?). If my guess is that 50 GB should be easily achievable.

• Size of the band to RAID servers with ESXi - RAID 10

  I know this has been asked several times, but I never saw no definitive answer to this question.

  In my raid controllers [8704EM2 LSI / LSI-8708EM2] I can set the size of the band to get the size of band chosen by multiplying this with the amount of discs.

  VMFS5 uses a block size of 1 MB, so with my configuration of 4 disks, I need the size of my band to 256 KB, for my 8 disks it is 128 KB.

  When I create a new virtual machine I would use the eager willingness to zero thickness to avoid fragmentation in the data store, I think that that would be the optimal situation with regard to the data store?

  [Linux] operating system in the virtual machine that would result in this theory?

  Advice or comments?

  I've never seen any definitive answer to this question.

  Probably because there is no definitive answer to this question.

  In my raid controllers [8704EM2 LSI / LSI-8708EM2]

  You can gain more performance when you switch your controller/sata 3 Gbit/s old sata/6gbit one.

  VMFS5 uses a block size of 1 MB

  True, but vmfs5 also uses the subblocks of 8 KB. In addition, very small files)<1kB) can="" be="" stored="" in="">

  I would use the eager willingness to zero thickness to avoid fragmentation within the data store

  Where do you have idea * that * avoids fragmentation?

  I think that this would be the optimal situation with regard to the data store?

  I don't think this is not optimal, and I'm not sure that there is generally best value. Affecting the band of equal size block size vmfs5 maybe not the best option, because it is small enough. In addition, there are other things you should consider, i.e.:

  -sector size of the hard disk (usually 512b or 4 KB)

  -ssd read/erase (highly specific to the provider) block size

  -Sectoral block size / filesystem VM (depending on the operating system)

  -In charge of VM file system (depends on what your VM)

  -the edge of your raid controller cache size

  -type of raid-array (0,1,10,5,6,...)

  -etc, etc.

  IMHO, if you don't have time to test, just stick with the default. With blind shooting you can just make things worse...

• Use LR5. Because of volume and the size of the photos, I use an external hard drive. When opening LR5 it references only the local hard disk. How can I change the refernce to read the external drive. Thank you

  Use LR5, due to volume and the size of the photos, I use an external hard drive. LR refers only the Local Drive C not outside. Where do I change this by LR read the external drive. Grateful for the help.

  Thank you

  LR is not a file Explorer. He knows only the disks that you imported photos of.

  If you have previously imported these photos, then later moved into the external hard drive, go to the library files and "update location" Panel on the files that you moved.

  If you have never imported these images on the external hard drive, perform an import by using the option 'Add' (not ' copy') to keep the images on the external hard drive during import.

• RAID 1 hardware and ESXi - host not to see the virtual volume

  Please bear with me as I try to explain this issue in detail.

  I have an ESXi server.  He has a number of virtual machines and works.  This server has a LSI RAID controller and had a single hard drive connected to this controller.  I'm allergic to non redundant drives, so I added a second drive and, from BIOS boot from the RAID controller (before initialization of the server itself), I created the mirror and had the controller 'rebuild' the second disc, copy of an image of the first record on.  The controller did and displays a virtual (in BIOS) volume in a RAID 1 volume consisting of two physical disks.

  At this point, I expect from any server OS to see the single volume.  However, ESXi, at startup, see both drives hard physical (apparently without taking into account the supposed configuration of the controller, which is strange for me), and because they contain all the two identical copies of the ESXi installation, it purple-screens to complain about two identical UUID.  When I work around this error with the start command line option 'overrideDuplicateImageDetection', ESXi starts on one of the two disks.  vSphere shows the two disks and physical disks, mounted in the system.

  I'm relatively certain that the RAID card maintains the mirror.  The second disc is not part of a data store.  I would prefer ESXi see the mirror as the only logical volume so-called offer the RAID card, but I'll settle for ESXi, ignoring the second unit of disk in total.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks in advance for your help,

  H.

  Hello

  Some RAID controllers operating in RAID or RAID configuration. If no RAID is created, it will work like the generic SCSI cards and when a RAID is created then it will become an appropriate raid controllers. When you installed the ESXi map was probably operating in non RAID and later converted to a RAID controller mode. Please check the drivers loaded in the kernel of ESXi and if necessary, please include the RAID controller module and re build the boot image.

  Is it possible to give me the model number of the LSI RAID you use and the output of the inscription of the kernel module. I think that these dual-mode controllers were possible on older models of server, not sure that they are always available. I used to see this kind of problems with Linux in ancient times.

• Increase the size of virtual disk Volume

  If initially, I create a RAID10 array with four drives and install ESX3i, then later add two drives to increase the size of the RAID10 array, I can use the extra space for VMS ESX3i without erasing the data?

  Thank you!

  Bob HHSU

  RAID10 on RAID5 due to performance. I 4x500Gb then RAID10 gives me about 1 TB usable, that should be enough space for a couple of years for my application

  Okay, maybe that's true, but you are only working with a few axes.  RAID 10 in maybe 20 disks RAID 10 is perhaps better performance, but not big thing with only 2 pins.  If you don't have the space, very well.  I hope it works for you.

  In addition, the machine has six spans and so I have the ability to add more than two readers and increase the table to about 1.5 TB. My dilemma is now maybe I should add plus two other readers from the beginning if ESX cannot cultivate virtual disks.

  OK, then if you have disks now, why don't put you in now.  Even if you can grow the disk later, why re-work.  This seems really odd.  Do everything now and do it.  If you do not have to do it later.

  VM the VMFS, correct? If I have too much space allocated to a virtual computer and he needs for another, I can reduce the allocation?

  Yes, but again, it is more work.  Start small.  It is easier to add than SUBTRACT.  Start with only 50 GB, 100 GB.  OS file systems growth is much easier, the fight must convert a copy of the SAME virtual machine, which requires even more work...