The RAID 1 in PowerEdge T320

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• Synchronize the PowerEdge T320 SATA 3GBPs single speed

  Hi, I have a week old T320 with controller RAID H310 delivered with 2 x 1 TB SATA disks replaceable hot (s.3 - Reference Dell Constellation: 0T4XXN, Seagate ST100NM0033).

  The sync rate max - as stated in the BIOS H310 and the lifecycle of the controller is 3Gbps. The RAID H310 map is a map of 6 GB/s that came out in recent years and are these disks SATA 6 GB/s (according to the data sheet of the Seagate)

  I talked to Dell 'support', and they said that they had no speed specified in the documentation of the disc, so they did not know (!).

  Dell is still actually delivered 3GBPs readers - i.e. special gradient firmware?

  They suggested that I talk to sales to change the drives I - but what for? SAS would be an expensive option for sure and if 'support' don't know the specs of their own parties what is sales are going to do.

  Any ideas?

  For anyone interested, I was correct - Dell hinder their SATA 6GBPs drives up to 3GBPS, and have done since 2009. Apparently, it's a deliberate policy, as they had problems with some servers at the time using specifications SATA III-, but its silly to keep this policy more than 5 years later.

  If no server generation 12 - e.g. T320 - don't comes with disks SATA 6GBPs despite the fact that the 'same' exact drive model bought because say OEM Seagate s.3 works thankfully to 6 Gbps. Dell simply artificially degraded performance in their firmware.

  With gen 13 servers there is now a * choice * SATA speed - but why?, why same still power SATA II drives to a new server? -at least I know now what is the question.

  Dell T620 clocked at 3 Gbps display disc:

  

• Classified into CPU upgrade PowerEdge T320 - I was wondering if I need thermal paste for the heatsink that came with it

  Subject pretty much said it all.

  We received a CPU upgrade for our PowerEdge T320. The new processor comes with a new heat sink, and it seems that there is a thermal buffer of paste on the lower part of the radiator.

  I wonder if anyone knows if I need to or recommend that I put the extra thermal paste on the chip before mounting the radiator.

  Hello.

  The quantity of thermal paste comes with your CPU should be enough for the CPU holding it in place.

• PowerEdge 2850 - Perc 4e/Di - status of the RAID-1 array

  I'm trying to give a sense of the info in OMSA 2.1.0 for a RAID 1 virtual disk on a server Poweredge 2850 + Perc 4e/Di.   Array disk 0:0 died at an unknown point in the past.  Info OMSA before replacing the drive:

  

  

  We have added another 0:0 drive, he rebuilt successfully automatically and this is the current info:

  

  

  

  So the State of the virtual disk RAID-1 is is more "degraded" and yet it is still showing only 0:1 Hitachi disk array and not the new 0:0 Seagate.  How this should be interpreted?  We also have another virtual disk raid 10 on this same server with discs model even who had also a drive down and replace this trained player the new Seagate drive not appearing in the table of Raid-10 list as expected.  the difference was that the Raid array-10, the original disk was displayed in OMSA as 'impossible', while on RAID-1 above, no other player has been listed.

  It should show the other disk.  A few things to try:

  • Refresh the screen VD
  • Closing/re-open OMSA
  • Stop/re-start services OMSA (DSM)
  • Clear the ESM/Hardware log in OMSA
  • Restart the server
  • Updating system firmware (BIOS, ESM, PERC (first pilot), HARD drive)

  All the foregoing may work, but it's probably caused by obsolete OMSA and/or firmware/drivers.

• I have to shutdown PowerEdge T320 to add more disks?

  Hello

  We have a Dell PowerEdge T320 with following Perc

  ID	0
  Name	Adapter PERC H310
  State	Loan
  Firmware version	20.12.0 - 0004
  Driver version	6.801.05.00

  Currently, the server has two drives of 1 TB on a RAID 1 virtual disk. I want to add more than 4 drives (2 TB) and create a RAID 5 with 3 disks and leave one as a spare drive. So my questions are:

  1. do I need to disable the server in order to add new readers? -the server has access area Bay front for Perc connections, which are the SATA drives.

  2. what would be the appropriate steps to set up the RAID. Can I make using Dell Open manage?

  3. do you know if the 2 TB drive, I want to use as a hot spare works also for the 1 TB RAID 1 drives?

  Thanks in advance.

  1. you should NOT turn off to add or replace the hot-swappable drives. Leave it on.

  2. Yes, use OpenManage... Select Reconfigure in the drop-down list of tasks available for RAID 1.

  3. Yes, the reader may be bigger, but not smaller. All larger than the other Member disks space will be wasted space. Then, you'll go from a 1 to a 4 TB RAID 5 RAID 1. Half of all your drives of 2 TB will be wasted.

  Another thing, you need to know is that if Windows is ALREADY installed with UEFI enabled (as opposed to the BIOS), then you can not use more than 2 TB. Windows cannot use a greater than 2 TB drive unless it's TPG, and Windows cannot start a GPT disk except if installed on UEFI system activated. Conversion to GPT is destructive, so it cannot be changed without reinstalling.

  My advice would be to set up your 4x2TB in a 4 TB RAID 6 disks - RAID 6 is a better use of a 'rescue' as a backup pending. RAID 10 would also be acceptable.

• Dell PowerEdge T320 PERC H710P Upgrade

  Dear support, I have a Dell PowerEdge T320 server that was purchased with a software RAID controller in S100.  I just bought a PERC H710P controller and hoped to help on the installation.  Do I need anything else to install the card as a set of cables?  I have a 8 x 3.5 "hot swappable backplane already installed with a pair of cables SAS that connect to the motherboard.  What else do I need to do this work?  I'm also not sure where the PERC H710P controller must be installed?  I can't find pictures or drawings on the Internet.

  Thank you

  Joe

  Jpmigliozzi,

  You should also order the cable (part # DJXF7) as well. This is the cable that connects the 710 in the bottom of the basket 8 x 3.5. Look at the picture below and let me know if those are the cables you already have.

  

  Let me know.

• Internal tape drive SAS Dell PowerEdge T320/T420

  Hello

  I am installing a SAS LTO4 tape drive in a Dell PowerEdge T320 Tower Server.  I have the tape drive and the controller/HBA H310 SAS for the connection to the drive but I can't find the right cable for the H310 training. #

  I'll use P/N: 606JD, which is listed on the TBU for T610/T710 cable but don't know if it's the cable for this unit.

  Any help would be massively appreciated.

  Thank you

  Hello.

  Need you Cable Mini SAS to part number: J7KJW.  P/N: 606JD cable is not compatible with T320/T420

• PowerEdge T320 compatible memory

  Hello

  I had a server T320 with single processor, I has 4 GB of RAM, I want to expand the memory at least 16 GB.

  Is there a list of compatible memory modules that can be used

  Here is an example

  HMT31GR7BFR4C-PB Hynix

  Samsung M393B1G70QH0-YK0

  HP 605313-071 Micron

  If I can get the memory of 510 Poweredge servers can also allow here.

  Thank you

  BHU

  Outside the group that you listed, the only one that looks like it might be compatible would be the Hynix. More glancing DIMMS for the R510, there is a bar shared memory, but it's a 2GB. I don't see any other compatible crossing those listed. Thus, it can be up to error on those you have.

  Also you can mix brands of memory, as the population of DIMMs can be different as long as the population for each socket mode and rules.

  • If dimms of different speeds are mixed, all channels across all CPUs operated at the common frequency of the slowest dimm.
  • That a single dimm type is allowed per system: UDIMM or RDIMMS. They cannot be mixed.
  • The first slot dimm in each channel is color-coded with white release tabs to facilitate their identification.
  • Rank savings and mirroring
  • DIMMs must be installed in each channel from the furthest Dimm to CPU. DIMMs must be installed with County rank largest to smallest. For example, if DR is mixed with modules DIMM SR, the DRs should be in the lowest Dimm then SR DIMM slots.

  Here are some numbers if necessary part.

  D65JJ - 4 GB 1600 MHz 2RX8

  CPX35 - 8 GB 1600 MHz 2RX4 low voltage

• Dell PowerEdge T320 - upgrade memory

  Dear all,

  I recently put a server DELL T320 with 64 GB of RAM, I want to add additional memory and would like to know is this server supports 32 GB memory cards. There are now two empty slots in the server and I want to add Two 32 GB cards in them.

  Server model: Dell PowerEdge T320
  Processor: Intel (r) Xeon CPU E5-2407 v2 @ 2.40 GHz
  Board of Directors information: 0MK701, Version A01,.

  Chipset: Intel C602

  Current memory: 16 GB x 4 (64 GB total)

  Product data sheet says that 32 GB is supported. www.Dell.com/.../PD

  Is that no matter what knows the exact part number and make memory which is supported. Please notify.

  Kind regards

  REDA

  Hello.

  Yes, the server supports 32 GB memory modules. However, due to the restrictions imposed by the population memory guidelines requiring that balanced memory channels, will need you 3 modules 32 GB and 16 GB 3 modules such as:

  A1, A2, AND A3: 32GB

  A4, A5 & A6: 16GB

  Here's the 32GB module part number: SKU # A7916527 & Mfg # SNPF1G9D / 32G. Make sure that your BIOS is up to date.

• Degraded RAID 1 array: PowerEdge 2800

  Hello to everyone. I hope someone can shed some light on this unusual situation.

  I have a PowerEdge 2800, which must be replaced before May this year, this is a great server and done an excellent job over the past 7 years.

  OK for the problem; The server administrator has been a failure on 0:0

  In the server, we have:

  0: Maxtor 36 GB 15 k 0 0:1 Fujitsu 73 GB 15 k something 1:2... 1:3 something...

  So, I jumped 0:0 and the server worked great with a range of gradations, and 15 seconds I inserted back to the PE2800. After about 45 minutes the RAID 1 array has been rebuilt, but it still says expected failure. So I thought that better order some new readers - I received today; 2 x 146 GB 15 k Seagate Cheetah.

  OK, so I jumped 0:0 drive and inserted one of the 146 GB Cheetah and the server crashed - wouldn't boot at all and gave me an error stating that the logical drive failed.

  Thus, in the PERC4i BIOS, I forced drive 0:1 online and the server is now back operational but with a range of gradations.

  So that's where I am, what choice do I have?

  Insert the old disk with a predicted failure, leave it alone or try the 146 GB Cheetah. I don't really want to do an any of them, but I will order another 73 GB Fujitsu in the meantime.

  I want to know is why the server crash after having inserted the cheetah disc? I traded to many-a-time pluggable hard drives in the past in several dell breaks and never experienced anything like this.

  Degraded running, any response would be massively appreciated.

  Thank you very much.

  "So, I'm now to square, where I have a RAID1 system with a disk failure planned.  What would you do from here on? »

  Another thing that many people do not know is with a disk of pf, should it be forced offline before replacing, if not the FP flag can be assigned to the new drive (until a real "rescan" is performed) and can result in strange behavior (the controller is more sensitive to potential readers of pf failure).

  "Common sense says I can't mix-match 10 k / 15 k TPM!

  You CAN / layout speeds and/or sizes (there's nothing wrong with him "technically"), but in real-world scenarios, you would ever want to mix speeds (depending on the configuration, it degrade the speed of the whole picture).  One thing you can't do is mix U320 SCSI U160 readers on a bottom of basket/controller.

  "What would you do from here on?

  I guess from here depends on what you feel more comfortable making.  There is a chance that the pf reader works fine until you are finished with the server (or until you can get another replacement - if you feel another replacement would be better than those you currently have), even if it might cause additional problems if his condition deteriorates.  There is a chance it could happen again if you try to replace it, but I think it's unlikely to happen.  If it was me (and it is important to remember that this isn't :)), I force disk 0 offline and replace "hot" by the other 146 GB drive.  Another thing you could do, who feel probably less risky, is simply to insert the disc of 146 GB in an open slot, assign as a relief, then force offline disk 0, which results in a regeneration start automatically with disk 0.

• Problems with the RAID on ESXi 4

  Hello

  Although I have been using VMware Server for a few years, I am beginner with ESXi and would like some advice please.

  I'm putting a laboratory machine using the following environment:

  Dell PowerEdge SC1425

  3 GB RAM

  disks SCSI 2 x 73 GB attached to an Adaptec 39320 b. RAID controller with integrated HOSTRAID support.

  I worked on how to configure oem.tgz to recognize the RAID controller and have successfully upgraded to ESXi 4.1.0.

  Where I struggle is as follows:

  I wanted to install ESXi on two SCSI drives, configured as RAID1 mirror.

  I started by setting up a RAID1 with the Adaptec BIOS table. The problem is that when I installed ESXi, it would not fully start, claiming that I have two drives with the same UUID.

  So, I did it again, reset the controller (i.e. no RAID). This time, ESXi installed and running successfully, but as I suspected it would be started from a single disc and shows the other drive as a data store.

  Is there something I'm missing here? Should I persevere with RAID1 with the Adaptec BIOS configuration, or is there something in ESXi I should use?

  It does not appear on the HCL, and I expect that the card is also well supported and a RAID device. The fact that the card does not appear in the simple.map may indicate that it is an OEM version. Adaptec card BIOS can be flashed so I would check that. There are versions of pilot listed as entries of subtext of the HCL. See if there is any meaning with those.

• ESX 3.5 u4 RAID 1 on PowerEdge 850

  Hi all

  I have a small question, I used to have an ESX Server 3.5 to u4 mode RAID 0 on a Dell PowerEdge 850. Finally, the system crashed, the RAID array will be more found.

  I decided to re - install ESX 3.5 u4 but with RAID 1 instead. During the installation process and after the installation are finished, I heard a plaintive high-pitch noise when the array is initialize, now it does not when I put the RAID 0 configuration and install ESX. I also tried with ESXi 3.5 u4 but get the same results with RAID 1.

  I checked on the VMWare Web site, with the compatibility tool and the PowerEdge 850 is not listed in the compatible Dell servers to ESX 3.5 u4, but as I have explained before use to run ESX on this same PowerEdge without problems.

  I am trying to pin-point the source of the problem and I would like to know if any of you correctly installed ESXi or ESX on a PowerEdge 850 with RAID 1?

  BTW, I ran tons of diagnosis on the system, and the HARD drive and all the components are healthy. That's why I wonder if the problem is not with the software and hardware.

  Thanks to you all!

  Any input is appreciated

  Hello

  I also had these problems with ESXi 3.5 u4 - but only if I installed immediately after creating the RAID1 array. The high pitched noise is the "RAID degraded" alarm on the CERC SATA 1.5/6 controller that comes with this system. My solution was to allow the RAID to build entirely during the night before installing u4, which allowed me to install, and I've been running for a month now without any problems. From one day to the next, I say only because they were 500 GB disks and took some time to build completely.

  Furthermore, I have now decided to return to u3 u4 disables many management utilities I was going to use (using the "unsupported" and RCLI). After the RAID reset, I tried to install u3 immediately (during the process of RECONSTRUCTION/VERIFY) and managed without a building during the night.

  A warning on the u4: even if he can be downloaded version of Dell (with the CIMs Dell preinstalled for use with OpenManage), the CIMs are missing the most critical readings on the State of the RAID. The other hardware monitoring is pretty irrelevant compared to know when your RAID array is degraded and must be repaired.

  If anyone has solutions to get the controller CERC report thorugh either OpenMaanage or SNMP so please point me in the right direction.

  Good luck.

• PowerEdge T320

  Does anyone know what stand "CPH"?

  It is listed in the section of the connectors on the system board from the PowerEdge T320 operating manual (extract below).

  Card SLOT1 PCIE G2 connector - X 4 (CPH) PCIe 4 1
  5 card SLOT2 PCIE G2 connector - X 1 (CPH) PCIe 2
  PCIe SLOT3 PCIE-G3 - X 16 card connector (CPU1) 6 3
  Card slot PCIe SLOT4 PCIE-G3 - X 4 (CPU1) 7 4
  Connector card PCIE-G3 - X 4 (CPU1) SLOT6 PCIe 8 6

  Hello

  It stands for chipset. Some of the pci-e lanes are run by the CPU, and some are on the system board.

• PowerEdge T320 mix RAM 2x8GB + 2x16GB

  Hello

  We have a server poweredge T320 and want to extend the existing 2x8GB memory.

  What should be the configuration as if we want to add 2x16GB?

  Thanks in advance for the help and best regards

  Tim

  Preexo,

  I guess that it is a uniprocessor configuration? If this isn't the case, then let me know.

  If it is a uniprocessor configuration, then you can put the 16 GB DIMMs in slots A1 and A2 white tabs. Then place the 8 GB DIMMs in slots A4 and A5 black tabs. In the BIOS, under the memory settings, make sure that it is set to Optimizer Mode. This will be a supported configuration, as long as they are compatible 16 GB DIMMS.

  You can find more information on the memory system here.

  Let me know how it goes.

• Upgrade PowerEdge T320 wired hot-swappable drives

  Hello

  I'm new to this forum and have sought on this matter but cannot find anything. I hope this isn't a duplicate.

  Well, I just bought a PowerEdge T320 with wired readers and I was wondering if it is possible to update hot later? Whether it is sufficient to install a bottom of basket? Would what parts I need?

  Kind regards

  Tommy

  Hello, Tommy

  Anything is possible, but ranging from cable at the bottom of the basket on the T320 would not be taken in charge or simple.

  pusle

  Whether it is sufficient to install a bottom of basket? Would what parts I need?

  You would need more of a bottom of basket. You must also different cables, and you need some parts that we do not sell. Depending on which controller you have you can have a different controller if you want to use more than 4 slots on the backplane from the controller chipset only supports a maximum of 4 hard drives.

  The backplane and cable configurations use different chassis. We do not sell the chassis. You need to change your current chassis to create disks for HDDs bays. The enclosure which use wired readers couldn't be used for pluggable hard drives hot.

  Thank you