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• Another RAID Question :)

  Until recently, we bought our licenses for ESXi 5 and before I have order my raid controller I would check with the community on certain things.

  Based on research I did on the forums and on the compatibility list, it's a pretty decent controller:

  http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16816118170

  What we seek to do is to take the above 8 port controller and set up 4 disks in RAID 10. Then down the line, connect a 4 discs additional for the controller even in another configuration of raid 10 or two matrices RAID 1.

  So my question is this: is it possible to install ESXi 5.5 on the first RAID 10 configuration, then later, to create additional tables on the same controller and then assign them to the existing installation of ESXi?

  Thanks in advance for answers!

  Yes, you can add new bays starting from the same controller to your ESXi installation at a later date. This will be done through host Configuration > storage. Once the berries are configured, they will appear in the list of available LUNS and can be connected to ESXi like additional data stores.

  I don't have experience with this particular model of LSI first hand, but it is listed on the HCL 5.x ESXi, so you should not encounter compatibility problems.

• RAID question...

  I have two in my system RAID arrays... lies in 3 x 1 TB RAID-5 (2 TB total) which is implemented using the controller onboard Marvell chip and Intel RAID software. The second is a 4 x 2 TB drive RAID-5 (total of 6 TB) inside a box external and put in place with a G Highpoint RAID card - Tech material on a PCI-e bus.

  I plan to do a thorough cleaning and a reinstallation of the operating system and programs, and my question is, can I safely do without risk of loss of data on RAID arrays? I'm pretty confident the hardware RAID will be correct, but as software RAID is configured using a software program that is installed on the operating system, I am afraid that wiping the OS (and, therefore, control software) and do a relocation will result in this RAID being ruined... thoughts?

  Since the Marvell raid is configured in the BIOS and not in the window, unless you tried to make it REALLY slow using the Windows software, you should be OK, but if you tried to make it even slower than it should be and you used the Windows software, you will lose all your material. Is not really important, because you'll have a good backup in place strategy, I hope.

  The G-Tech raid will survive a new installation, but will still suffer from the eSATA connection. I think it would be a good time to add a dedicated raid controller to improve your performance.

• raid question 6 UCS 210

  Hi all

  We have a UCS 210 with a LSI MegaRAID 9261 - 8i 6G card.  There also have 4x146GB 6 GB SAS 15 K RPM HDD SFF.  It is configured with raid 6 with all 4 HDD in the virtual HD group.  It seems he gives me about 278 GB.  about half 4 x 146.  does that make sense for raid 6?

  We have an another c220 with with raid 5 gives approximately 1.4 to 6x300HD.  (more than half).  RAID 5 is almost identical to raid 6 and gives less than raid 5 in size.  This is why it makes no sense for ucs210 with disk HARD 4 x 146.

  If anyone can clarify this?

  very much appreciated.

  Thank you

  Vijay

  Hi Vsaravanamuthu,

  The values you get are expected, what you need to know is that for raid 5 you have a failure of the SINGLE player for the fault tolerance and RAID 6, you have TWO disks for fault tolerance. It would make sense that you see more large capacity of raid 5 to raid 6.   You can also find calculators of raid online that will give you and idea of the expected capacity of the raid volume (see below).

  RAID calculator

  http://wintelguy.com/raidcalc.pl

  I would like to know if this helps and don't forget to note the answers useful.

• UCS C220 M3 raid question

  Hi all

  I have a UCS C220 M3 with 4 hard drives, when I want to create the Raid 5 is not enabled, I have only 1 or 10.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you.

  See this http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C220/ins...

  You need the software key, otherwise you will only be able to configure RAID 0,1 and 10

  "You can override this support by adding support of SAS RAID 5 with optional software key. See installing a key Module of software RAID for Embedded RAID 5 screens. »

  HTH,

  -Kenny

• SSD 4 k mount Raid Question

  In recent months the couple here, I built a fairly large ediitng platform k 4. now my only neck of the bottle is what I believe to be my camera 2. Is raid 0 but the speed is even slower, so I only for the 4 k files r3d that I am editing in first pro. I was chatting on upgrade to 2 1 TB samsung 850 pro ssd in raid 0 as the source media players. I see a significant increase on my flow with these discs for the media source?  The rest of the system is a x 5960 i7, titan x, 256 GB ssd for cache files, a 256 GB m2 for start-up and a 99 deluxe 3.1 x mobo.

  -Cheers

  This test seems very strange, as if they had a bad intel 750 or it is in a location PCIe clocked at 1 x. I wouldn't trust these results, sound out of the character. I've seen other landmarks, most of anandtech, which show that the drive intel is preferable to writing, while the samsungs are better at reading.

  This shows the intel 750 and the cards just to get the samsung 850 pro as well. in some of the benchmarks, you might imagine a raid of samsung 850 pro becomes a bit near the 750 in reading/writing, but raid will not make the difference in latency.

  Intel SSD PCIe SSD Review 750: NVMe for the customer

• The T110 II RAID question server configuration

  Hello

  I have T110 II server and 3 HDD WD SATA 1 TB each.

  And RAID Controller PERC S100

  When the load on the server RAID controller card it shows 3 HDs on enacting of the host.

  During the RAID configuration with virtual disk management setting in do not show any physical hard disk.

  Pictures are attached below

  Please help me

  closed;). the H200.

• Power e410 RAID question

  Hello

  I have an R410 using a Perc H200 controller. In the frame are 3 disks. 2 are in a RAID 1 configuration and the third is alone. I just changed status from abroad online.

  What I want to do is to use this drive as a storage device independent for the 2012 operating system on the box server. Its data not important that it will contain so didn't need to be ATTACKED. However, the only option available in Openmanage shall assign as a global hot spare. great if it's what I wanted but it's not!

  I can do what I'm describing?

  Thank you very much

  Sorry Barry, I almost forgot the H200 has a capacity of passthrough. The H700 and Perc 6 controllers do not have this capacity. You should be able to insert the single disc, erase any previous configuration for this drive in the controller. Then the operating system. The operating system should be able to see this solitary drive in the disk management page.

  Let me know.

• Help - power up to Raid question R710 - the following VDs are missing 01

  IM needs assistance regarding what to do next. I have a R710 turned off and installed a new ram. Restarted and the ram is very well detected. However, I have the screen shows VD01

  The following VDs lack 01.

  Im not sure what my next step would be, and my concern is that if I go into the configuration I will wipe disks

  Any help would be really appreciated

  Brendan

  

  You can press 'F' to import and continue or start the configuration utility and import the foreign configuration.

• Added four SAS drives to NX3100 - RAID Question

  We have a total of 14 disks.

  • Two 300 GB SAS internal for starting/host operating system
  • Eight 1 TB SATA for the storage of data and snapshot
  • The four 600GO SAS drives

  I have trouble to add a new virtual disk using its new four disks using OpenManage.  It seems to confine myself to the use of three of them.  Am I missing something?

  Nevermind, I guess I should have tried "Advanced" before posting.  =]

• S110 and PE T320 RAID 10 catastrophic disk subsystem performance - Server 2012-

  Ordered nine T320 with 4 500 GB SATA (Dell/WD) configured drives in RAID 10.  Server 2012 Std.  32 GB OF RAM.

  I had good performance of the T110-II and 4 similar drive RAID-10 using the S100 remote, but the difference is day and night between the S100 and the S110.

  I reinstalled several times in different configurations to ensure it was the S110 which was the issue.  Using the latest version of CrystalDiskMark (3.02f) here is the approximate number, I see sequential reads/writes.

  T110-II w/S100 and 4x500GB RAID 10-220 / 215 MB/s.

  T320 w/S110 and 4x500GB RAID 10-50 / 45 MB/sec with cache configured no read ahead and write through.

  T320 w/S110 and 4x500GB RAID10 - 60 / 52 MB/s with configured cache read-ahead and write again.

  T320 w/S110 and 2 x 500 GB RAID 1 - 50/45 MB / s

  T320 with disabled S110 and just running a single 500 GB drive in SATA AHCI mode.    135 / 133 MB/s.  It's what I expected a same WD/Dell 7200 RPM drive.  No problem with the SATA AHCI standard.

  This isn't a software vs hardware RAID question.  As I mentioned, I get massively on a T110-II with S100 in RAID 10.

  Dell - I can't believe that you are shipping something as bad.  My preference is to understand why he is so bad and solve the problem, but if I don't get answers soon, that the server will be going back to Dell.  The server as it sits now is unusable.  I'm 10 years old, sitting in my pile of recovery servers that perform better than that.

  [ADMIN NOTE: profanity removed by TOU] Reference Dell?

  Info on CrystalDisk Mark can be found here:

  http://CrystalMark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/manual-en/MainWindow.html

  the numbers are sequential 512 k / qd1 for the values that I listed in my initial post.

  What started me on this has been the new server was extremely slow during installation and configuration.  Then, I tried a few markers of disc and they all showed extremely poor performance.  I have listed CrystalDiskMark numbers because it is widely known and used in the comparative analysis.

• How can I set/change the HDD password?

  I have a W700, RAID 0 configuration and sometimes back I had put passwords to start for the two discs. But for the life of me, I don't remember how I did and where I'm going to change the passwords! Anyway, if you can enlighten us, I would be very happy. Thank you very much.

  Press F1 at startup to get into the bios, you will be asked to enter your passwords. Select the Security menu, then select the menu password, hard drive password can be changed here. After selecting the pw of hd, that you want to change you enter the current pw, and then a new twice each time confirm with the Enter key.

  Hope this helps

• How to activate RAID 0 on my W700

  Madam/Sir,

  Would you be so kind and explain briefly the procedure to recreate the image on my W700 with an AHCI enabled (non-RAID) 2 disks in an active RAID (2 stripped drives - RAID 0).

  I already have a picture of rescue & recovery of my disk (disk 0) main system on a drive connected to my W700 dock eSATA external. I also have a CD bootable rescue & recovery.

  My doubt is about the creation of the RAID 0 volume 1 and if the rescue CD & recovery will be able to apply the saved image on my RAID 0 volume (100% of the space of 2 discs)?

  Please notify.

  ionelg, welcome to the forum,

  ionelg wrote:

  I already have a picture of rescue & recovery of my disk (disk 0) main system on a disk external eSATA

  Are your hard drives of identical sizes? If this isn't the case, you may forget to build a RAID configuration.

  You need to create recovery discs as well, just to be on the good side of you. Go to start > programs > ThinkVantage > create recovery media. (It's a belt and Suspenders question - to be on the safe side).

  During the startup process, will give you the opportunity to press CTRL + I; This will allow you to set up your RAID as you would like, at the same time, it will make your current config as useless and all files will be lost - to return to them first.

  After you set the drives to the RAID configuration, you need that you can then use your discs to install the system. From my experience, it seems it won't boot from the disc or any other media get there in the first place, but it does eventually.

  Hope this helps

• Qosmio G20: Question on the status of RAID

  Small question. I want to determine if the RAID is completely disabled on my G20 (2 x 100 GB hard drives).

  When I reinstalled the operating system from the recovery disks in the RAID set up, I chose the option of two independent hard drives so they now drive C & D with Mac on C and D data on.

  If I go to the RAID console, it says "Can not get status", so I guess that the RAID is completely disabled but I wanted to just make sure.

  Thank you.

  Yes, you are right. You need at least 2 disks for a raid configuration to choose two independent disks made (off since raid), and your raid is not enabled. Good day.

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• Satellite P305-S8818 - Question about RAID compatibility

  Hi guys

  Back to Tosh. P305 (S8818) with 2 HDD - mine has 2 * 250G & I admit I bought without just thought! [Kenya $$] Just 2 questions: -.

  (1) - some way that they can be implemented with RAID 1 Setup - H/cherif additions/changes?

  (2) - if not; 250 GB is way more than I need - suggestions as how I could make the best use of the 2nd HARD drive?
  I think 2 BONES or copy [say-'True Image'] disc 01 - I think that you guys have a lot more knowledge than me - I hope you can help

  If you can; you have my eternal gratitude

  -Best wishes-
  Denis

  Hello

  As I'm not mistaken the Satellite P300/P305 series does not support RAID.
  There is NO RAID controller, but only the SATA HDD controller!
  Therefore, the use of any RAID parameters is not possible!

  In my opinion the second HDD can be used as a place for backups. I mean that you can back up your important data and files such as mp3, movies, pictures, etc. on the second HARD drive. I think is not a bad idea because the files stand still the operating system will be too bad and you need to reinstall it on the first HARD disk.

  Welcome them