Dell Servers

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? T

PowerEdge T710 Tower 4 tb hard drive shows 2 TB in a Raid Configuration, (Perc 6 / i).

How can any solution for this, I use full 4 TB of hard drive storage, Thank you

PowerEdge T710 Tower Perc H800 / H700 not Compatible

Hey I have a dell poweredge t710 Tower Server, when I update Perc 6 / i in H800 / H700 its give me error 'this update Package is not compatible with your system configuration. In fact I want to raid 4 TB Hard Drive in my server, that's why I need H80

M1000e weird graphical display

Hello After recently our m1000e chassis fleet upgrade to version 5 of the firmware, the view of the Administration of the group is behaving quite strangely. There are boxes open instead of correct pictures being shown on the web page. Is there any so

DRAC6 virtual console does not not in Win8/IE10?

I have a Poweredge R610 with a DRAC6.  It works very well.  I got a new computer Windows 8 with Internet Explorer 10.  No matter what I do the virtual console will not come under IE10 on this machine to Windows 8. It works fine in Firefox and IE olde

R415 with Opteron 4200 series problem

Hi team. I have problem on R415. currently I use with bios 4162EE opteron 2.2.1 (later for now).And today, I change CPU to 4284. The server can boot normally until arrived at the stage before entering windows 2008r2 OS. I saw the screen showing by 'e

PowerEdge 2800 can get into the BIOS (f2, ctrl m, f10, f12)

OK this is here, about a week ago, we tried to reformat poweredge 2800, I tried to find the Configuration utility instead we discovered was on iSCSi devices to RAID configuration change so we restarted, there is the Configuration utility on but I tri

How to test 1 RAID works or not?

Hi all I ask how to test that my installed Raid 1 and good work? And whether or not I use OMSA, how which? I have been testing it to disconnect a hard drive and work with only one and it worked. After I plugged the other with the first was missing an

Reference Dell T610 PERC 6i - very slow RAID rebuild

Hi all, I have a DELL T610 with a Controller PERC 6i with 4 x 1 TB SAS 7.2 K disks configured as a RAID6. 1 of the drives has failed, I installed the new drive, but reconstruction is only 44% after 36hrs! Why is it so slow? Any ideas would be greatly

Can a T310 to 4 disks?

Can a T310 to 4 disks?  I know that this is impossible with the S300, but what of the H700?

The disk identified by its ID or physical location?

I mean, it's with the server off, I can move readers to different locations and the Raid Controller simply know what readers who are without any reconfiguration.  Reason we want to do is to separate Raid 1 + 0 conduit through SAS channels to ensure r

Drive options T110 II for better performance of SQL Server.

I am building a development machine that will run Win Server 2008 and MS SQL 2008. About 10 developers use it. functions of database pretty standard with each DB about 20 GB in size. I'm going to spec an E3-1230 and max the RAM to 32 GB but not sure

What is the volume "unknown"?

What is the "Unknown" volume, on the "Unrecognized" file system is 47 MB in size, that uses all 47 MB, which has a Dell partition type and is reported as primary, as the operating system is? How and when it created? The reason why I ask, is that I'm

Dell Perc H310 T420-compatible hard drives

Hello experts, I have a server T420 with 8 Bay running 2 SATA 3 "switchable hot 5 Dell hard drives.  The controller is a Perc H310. I would like to know what kind of hard drives could be integrated into empty compartments. I would like to use non - H

FATA HDD on PowerEdge 2950. Will it work?

I'll buy some servers dell poweredge 2950. I know that they take over the discs hard sata/sas. I found some hard disks on ebay. im sure they are connectors of fata. Here is a link to them http://www.ebay.com/itm/300867851220?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2

This hard drive is not supported by Dell

I have Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 5 SAS drives in a massive RAID. All five disks SEAGATE ST373355SS 73 Gb. a few days ago one of those readers start flashing orange LED on the front of the server and also to make the mechanical noise. I do not have the

Cannot remove HARD disk configuration PERC 6i with use of the SAS drives foreign. Existing data are not important. Scratch reloading to redeploy the server.

Dell Poweredge 2950 III with serial number note from the Admin: have the label removed according to the TOU > receipt readers traded since an identical poweredge almost eliminated. In the configuration of the PERC controller 0 6i utility, disk groups

Need to upgrade the R420 server with 3.5 "raid S110 to H310 controller backplane

Hello I want to upgrade a server R420 with snap-in basket to warm 3.5 "S110 raid controller to controller H310.  Can someone point me in the right direction as to where I can order this and the part for the controller ID and SAS cables needed to conn

PowerEdge T-420 with Perc 310 - how do controller ports relate to the physical disks

I understand that Perc 310 has two connectors for SAS, each controller has four ports.  However, I can't end on how they relate to real disk slots in the bottom of basket. We will have four disks raid 1 + 0, and I want to make sure they are properly

Update Firmware drive SAS via ESX 3.5 Server

Is it possible to update the firmware of the drive through ESX Server 3.5? I tried, but get this error "This update Package is not compatible with the configuration of your system." Any help appreciated.