Upgrade 2 T110 S300-based hardware RAID controller

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• hardware RAID controller of VMware hypervisor 5.0

  Hello!

  We intend to buy HP Proliant DL380 G7 with 4 HDD hot swapable, now what I want to do is to configure this 4 HDD for RAID 1 + 0

  1. If I install VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 do I need to buy a hardware RAID controller, to be able to install ESXi 5.0?

  Thank you

  Michael

  Yes, if it is one of the 3 models mentioned in the section "storage controller."

  Models of HP Smart Array P410i/Zero Memory Controller (RAID 0/1/1 + 0)
  Base models HP Smart Array P410i/256 MB controller (RAID 0/1/1 + 0/5/5 + 0)
  Models of performance HP Smart Array P410i / 1 G FBWC controller (RAID 0/1/1 + 0/5/5 + 0)
  Available upgrades: 1 G FBWC 512 MB FBWC, 256 MB, 512 MB with BBWC, battery set level (for 256 MB cache) and Smart Array Advanced Pack (SAAP)

  then the controller hardware RAID (P410i) is already included and you can only get the FBWC.

  André

• PowerEdge 1900 and Poweredge 840 and NO hardware RAID SATA HD, FreeNAS with ZFS

  I searched these forums and the web in general a concise my questions answer, but nothing is done.  I just happen to find someone who is using 'old' technology and it retarget as much as you might think (I am a broke student by the way).

  I bought a Poweredge 1900 Server & server Poweredge 840 ebay about last year.  I've been busy and have yet to work with these two units.  I wanted to use the PE 1900 as a file server and then push a backup of these files on the server off site, the PE840.  I intended to buy four 1 TB or four disks SATA 2 to (WD Black or RED WD) for each system, respectively.

  I've been through a few videos on youtube the other day and discovered FreeNAS.  This seems to be a much better solution than the use of Ubuntu Server, but it also made me think about the hardware Raid with these systems.  If FreeNAS uses ZFS (software raid controller), you want to avoid a hardware raid controller.

  My current assumptions, please correct me if I'm wrong on any of the following:

  I think that each of these systems to support drives up to 2 TB?, I think that I can use the SATA drives and not SAS, four discs in each system drives.

  I believe that I can boot from USB flash drive (a quick, which I intend to install FreeNAS on which they recommend)

  I think I can connect readers to the Perc/Raid Controller controller (& just turn 'off' RAID), or simply directly on the motherboard.  (What woud be the advantages/disadvantages of the use of the card or simply by using the Council)

  I intend on working with what I have right now (cheap and available), then once I get this configuration work that I take it out of the sand/lab sandbox, upgrade the processors and ram up my budget will allow and go live with the installation program (if it is still possible)

  From now on, they are sitting in a corner, begging to consume energy, and fans of polute the soundscape with their cries (PE1900 precisely).  I know that I could pursue other options but I already these two units.

  I really want to utilze FreeNAS its serving capacity file and ZFS for its reliability.  Is it possible with this camera?, or should I junk them and move on?

  Thank you for your answer!

  I've done some research more and since FreeNAS is built off of FreeBSD supported hardware is the same.  I couldn't find a list for FreeNAS specifically so I looked to FreeBSD.  I was still confused about the material and decided to go forward with the poweredge 840, for two reaasons, there already 8 GB of ram and it is not as heavy to move on (from 1900). I shoot the raid controller (for simplicity) and I plugged in three 250 GB SATA drives and a 40 GB SSD.  I had to set the bios for the usb key is recognized and also due to adapt to be considered as a hard drive, then had to define the sequence of boot to the usb drive, acting as a hard drive.  Once all that has been said and done, I wrote my FreeNAS image on my USB and booted up.

  It took maybe 10 minutes and I was up and running (once I had configured the hardware and bios), I created a RaidZ (as proposed FreeNAS) and with my three 250 GB drives, it produced 453 GB of usable disk space.  The 40 GB SSD is used as L2ARC (from my cache of understanding), I tried the installer with and without the 40 GB SSD.  The difference was impressive, just opening the photos or streaming video on my laptop Win 8.1 (Dell 17r) is almost flawless, as if the files were stored locally.

  I was impressed by how quick and easy to use FreeNAS, simple and fast network shares can be configured with permissions that works quite simply not in less than 5 minutes.  I don't have Windows Server down, but generally configuration active directory takes a little more effort.

  I am satisfied for the moment and continues to experiment with the Poweredge 840 until I commit to a processor upgrade.  Once I acquire 16 GB memory for my Poweredge 1900 I will perform with her, as it has only 1 GB now, crazy.

  Thank you for your help.

• It is possible to examine the status of heath on my RAID controller?

  I have now installed ESXi with a new hardware raid controller and its working perfect, so now I think how I can watch on my diske is OK or fail?

  Can I someway check my status of heath on my controller raid and eg. get a mail if somtings are wrong?

  My raid controller is LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i - 128xHDD

  Thanks for your time.

  You must install the CIM providers for controller LSI/MegaRAID on the ESXi. But it seems that they are not yet available for VMWare 6.0, if you try the 5.5.

  Check 'Software downloads'-> 'Management software and tools' article on above page LSI.

  Thereafter, you need a workstation on the same subnet and you can install MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) and connect to the CIM provider.

  Here's a KB on LSI for VMWare 5.0 for example tools, but you might find more / more detailed by Googling a bit descriptions: VMware KB: ESXi 5.0 Server Management Tool media LSI

• General on the raid controller and hardware

  Hello

  I have that the hard disk controller or controller raid (0,1,5) does not work on a computer, if I add hollow PCI slot a wil raid controller or hardware, computer, or the raid not works normally?

  Johan

  Hi Johan,.

  Thanks for posting on Microsoft Community Forums.

  Ideally it is dependent on the PCI slot you use, if the PCI slot supports the hard disk controllers and RAID controllers so it will work with the computer. Almost all modern PCI slots supports the hard disk controllers and RAID controllers.

  For more information on the operation of the devices and drivers on Windows 7, click on the link below.

  Windows 7: manage devices and drivers

  Feel free to write us if you have questions/queries when you work with Windows.

• T130 PowerEdge RAID controller onboard or get a card?

  Finally, we got a budget to replace our entire PoS system and got a PowerEdge T130 to replace our T110. What I'm not clear on the RAID controller embedded - is it only the software, hardware or some hybrids; and what are the levels of RAID support? The existing facility is with SATA AHCI and RAID1 controllers in Windows Server 2008 R2 value.

  Our range of SSD in our existing server still in excellent condition, so I want to migrate it on when I'm done configures OS and PoS software. Should I go into BIOS, set up the RAID controller and see what levels he'll give me or I'd better use the physical map of the T110 in the T130? The T110 is currently using a PERC S300 card with 4 SSD in RAID10. Alternatively, can anyone point me to a better RAID card for this server which would do well to RAID10? I shortly before the system goes into the production environment, so I want to change my hardware now while I still can.

  It is only the second build of the full server that I have used in the past 6 years. Would like to hear the thoughts of anyone T130, RAID, etc. Finally, moving into the world of 64-bit, thank God.

  htc2010

  Finally, moving into the world of 64-bit, thank God.

  Welcome to 2009! (Sorry, I understand the difficulties from old tech in some organizations, I do).

  htc2010

  Finally, we got a budget to replace our entire PoS system and got a PowerEdge T130 to replace our T110. What I'm not clear on the RAID controller embedded - is it only the software, hardware or some hybrids; and what are the levels of RAID support?

  Software only - it is based on the Intel RAID chipset and supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 volumes and non-RAID. It should be avoided.

  htc2010

  The existing facility is with SATA AHCI and RAID1 controllers in Windows Server 2008 R2 value.

  This is what should be done with the integrated RAID controller (S130 - off and mirrored in the operating system instead - IF hardware RAID, which is preferable, is not checked).

  htc2010

  Should I go into the BIOS, change the RAID controller and see what levels he will give me

  Still once, I you would recommend against the use of the S130, AND you can't replace non-RAID RAID on the fly. It would require reinstallation or backup/restore.

  htc2010

  or I'd better use the physical map of the T110 in the T130? The T110 is currently using a PERC S300 card with 4 SSD in RAID10. Alternatively, can anyone point me to a better RAID card for this server which would do well to RAID10?

  The S300, while only slightly better than the S130, is not supported in the T130. I would recommend the H730 or the H330 if you absolutely cannot spend the money for the H730 (they are cheaper suppliers that Dell directly). The two become RAID 10. The H330 will give you about the performance of your S300. If none of them are selected, I'd go with what you vascular (the S130 is your only other option 'supported', and it's garbage). If this system is heavily used, I highly recommend, but if the H730 moderately or less software RAID is fine (you have SSD in the new configuration, I take it...).

• Rescue R710 & RAID controller

  Hi all

  I have an old R710 server and I need to do an upgrade of the RAID controller

  your suggestion for the best price/performance raid controller, please, I have a 4 TB drive

  Better compliance

  GVO

  PERC H700.

• PowerEdge R230 add RAID controller

  Need advice: the goal is to add Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H330 server Dell Poweredge R230.

  Originally, the data connection is to the motherboard with a mini SAS connector, power cord is related to the Board of Directors itself as well go with a connector 6-pin. Given that the new RAID controller has a different SAS (SFF8644) mini connector, I can't use the original cable.

  So try to solve that I bought 4 X SFF-8482 SAS a cable - Mini SAS SFF 8643. It would connect the RAID controller for readers. (THIS)

  I also added a power cords: 4 Pin IDE power Molex 1 male to 3 x female Splitter & 2 x 4-pin Molex to 6-pin PCI-E adjust Power Supply Cable (THIS) and (THIS). It was supposed to feed readers - but is not and they won't turn on.

  No idea why? Other ideas of ways to solve this problem?

  Thank you

  IB - EN1

  1. initially, I understood the topology based on the information on the user manual, see the attached figure describing Cabling two 3.5-inch hard drives 'to the PERC card. Isn't this relevant?

  The information I had previously provided are based on the wiring of the Controller PERC H330 with basket 4 x 3.5 "which I assumed you had based on your notes. Thanks for your clarification and ignore these P/Ns. Here are the cables you need.

  • Signal and cable LED to P/N 6R7VT the H330 controller to connect to the motherboard
  • Cable SAS junction A H330 for 2 hard drives or optical drives, P/N TTN3V
  • Hard/optical drive power cable from the system board P/N N9P7R for 4 HD (shipped with your server. Use only 2 connectors) or P/N VXR2 for 2 hard drives.

  IB - EN1

  457CH, TWV59, 6R7VT: I can not find an any of them on the dell Web site, you can share links?

  I would recommend that you directly contact Dell sales in your area.

  Thank you.

• Cannot install Windows 7 ultimate on hardware RAID

  I have three 1 to HARD sata drive, in the card mother Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H. I did HDD1 as no raid and two others as mirror leads to the BIOS level using control RAID Utility. But when I try to install Windows 7, in the last step of the installation, I got a message saying that Windows cannot continue. Anyboday have suggestions.

  Disconnect the two additional disks, insert the cd of Win, if it finds all remove them all partitions, and then continue the installation (I assumed that the installation correctly identifies the size of the disk)

  PS You are aware of the limits of the raid provided by the controller of the motherboard?

  Mirror raid is not an alternative to a backup

  RAID, provided by the controller of the motherboard is not hardware raid, in the true sense. Hardware RAID is available from a dedicated third-party hardware card.

• Cisco C240-M4SX / 12G SAS Embedded Raid Controller Queue depth Reporting resulting in ESXi 6.0

  All,

  We have been a customer of vSAN VMware 6.0 for the last 6 months of our environment entirely on servers of Cisco C240 M4SX with the Cisco 12 G SAS integrated Raid Controller.   Everything in the environment was working well until we started to bring in data warehouse loads in the environment and began to notice performance around latency of disk and most important issues still outstanding IO high.  After that ESXtop and ESXCFG examination we found that the length of the queue announced to the adapter ESXi has been only 234 however the VMware HCL Announces 895; 234 is below minimum spec of 256 to correctly implement vSAN.  We have worked diligently with VMware on it to try different versions certified and non certified driver async for this raid controller in addition to the most recent firmware for the raid controller.  Regardless of the change of the depth of the queue remained 234.  The presence of FBWC affect the depth of queue announced to the operating system?  VMware support has indicated that it is clearly a problem "hardware".  Any ideas as to what may be causing this?

  Our environment:

  C240-M4SX

  Integrated 12G SAS Raid Controller (operation JBOD / pass-through, not FBWC)

  UCSM 2.2 (6 c)

  Driver of VMware for controller: 6.606.06.00 - 1OEM.550.0.0.1331820.x86_64.vib

  VMware vSphere 6.0U1

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  Greetings.

  Had the chance to spend some time in the laboratory and removed the cache module.

  After that, I now get "207", so I would say it's confirmed that 1,2,4 GB cache modules are used to increase the depth/length of the queue for these controllers.

  12gb_sas_qdepth_no_cache.jpg

  

  Thank you

  Kirk

• installation of Windows 7 does not detect drivers for 9500S 3ware RAID controller - 4LP

  I've been using 3ware 9500 s - 4lp raid controller without problem on xp64 os.

  I want to upgrade to windows 7, but after installation clean win7 does not detect my readers as unsigned drivers.

  PLEASE HELP ME!

  Please see: Windows 7 Compatibility Center

• RAID Controller degraded by the Firmware version

  Hi all

  My security system is sending me alert because my RAID controllers being day. RAID controllers are fine, but the State is deteriorating because of the "latest Firmware Version available" which means I can't properly control if something really bad happens.

  Is it possible to disable the alert or lower the minimum version expected? I just can't reboot all my servers just for an update of the RAID firmware.

  My security system expects a status: Ok

  Thank you very much in advance!

  Greg

  Below the output omreport:

  omreport storage controller $
  Controller PERC H700 integrated (Embedded)

  Controllers of
  ID                                            : 0
  Status: No reviews
  Name: PERC H700 integrated
  Location ID: shipped
  State: degraded
  Firmware version: 12.10.1 - 0001
  Latest Version of the Firmware available: 12.10.4 - 0001
  Driver version: 00.00.06.14 - kh1
  The minimum required driver version: not Applicable
  The Storport driver version: not Applicable
  Minimum required: Version of the Storport driver: not Applicable
  Number of connectors: 2
  Regeneration rate: 30%
  BGI Rate                                      : 30%
  Consistency check rate: 30%
  Rebuild rate: 30%
  Alarm status: not applicable
  Cluster mode: not Applicable
  SCSI initiator ID: not Applicable
  Cache memory size: 512 MB
  Patrol read mode: manual
  Patrol read status: stopped
  Patrol read rate: 30%
  Read the iterations of patrol: 2
  Give up control of consistency error: disabled
  Enable reversible hot spare and replace the: enabled
  Load Balancing: not Applicable
  Auto Member Replace on Predictive Failure: disabled
  Redundant path view: not Applicable
  Able CacheCade: Non Applicable
  Persistent backup: disabled
  Encryption Capable: Yes
  Currently key encryption: No.
  Encryption mode: no
  Preserved cache: No.
  Spin down drives unconfigured: disabled
  Turn down hot spares: disabled
  Centrifuge the configured drives: not Applicable
  Automatic disk Power Saving (idle C): not Applicable

  Thanks again!

  gcharot

  Is it possible to update the firmware without system reboot? I am running CentOS 5 and 6

  No, you can update the firmware without a reboot, but the update will be based in the controller cache until a reset is performed. So yes, you can perform the update without reboot, but it will not take effect until you perform a reboot.

  Thank you

• P410 HP and SSD RAID controller

  In my server lab currently have a HP P400 RAID controller and it works well. But I would like to have support for SSDS and submitted them to ESXi as such. Currently the SSD is discovered in the Non - SSD.

  Can anyone confirm that if I switch to the controller P410, ESXi will discover SSD drives correctly?

  
  

  I bought a P410 because of this problem, but I upgraded to vCenter 5.5 before swapping controllers and it turns out that 5.5 correctly identifies the SSD on P400.

  I guess it is also the P410.

• Disk HARD/RAID controller not no projection in the State of health

  I've recently updated several ESXi 4.x hosts 5.1 and after the upgrade disks and the raid controller are showing is more in the section of the State of health of vSphere. The servers are all Dell PowerEdge 2950 and I even tried to make a fresh full install which did not help either. Here is a screenshot of the State of health of the problematic server. I need to get this resolved so that our monitoring solution can see the status of the disks/table.

  

  Here is a screenshot of an another PowerEdge 2950 still under 4.1 and it shows the disk controller and raid fine.

  

  Anyone seen this before? or have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

  Thank you

  Greg

  For any other person who comes through this, the problem is caused by ESXi 5.x is no longer handling/Bay record of voting in the same way as 4.x and earlier (see screenshots in an original message for comparisons). The only way to get the matrix of discs/fully new election is to have the ESXi host managed by vCenter (standalone no longer works). Hope this helps others as it was a big headache for me for awhile.

• Install the raid controller during the installation of ESXi5

  Hello

  Today, we plan to install ESXi5 on our server.

  We had no problems during the installation of ESX4.1 as he ask custom drivers when it starts.

  But ESXi5.0.0 does not ask for the installation of the custom driver and we cannot install raid controller driver!

  I do not know how to resolve this so I wanted to know is possible to install the raid controller?

  Thanks in advance.

  I know I ask too many questions, but I know a little bit about it.

  No problem, that's what the forum is done

  Now should after you download the Image how I use it?

  Burn the image to a CD and run the installation from the bootable CD. Remember, though, that the image is usable only for new installations, not for upgrades (see release notes).

  André