Not sure how this happened, but I have 4 HDDs (0 to 3), and HDD 1 is in state "Ready" instead of "Online", and as a Hot Spare. Is there way to change the Hot Spare to increase the total raid capacity?
I'm using Dell PE2900, Win 2003 Srv, PERC 5/i Integrated, 4x 145GB SAS drives. I've updated the firmwares, BIOS, drivers, and latest Dell OMS v7.4.0. But I don't see any option to convert the Hot Spare.
Thanks.
I am a volunteer for a non-profit. They have several Dell servers with 6 drive arrays. I don't know if I know enough detail, but the array has a PERC6/i integrated controller.
I have had a perpetual problem with the drive in one port being marked as predicted failure. Even after replacing it, it seems it would soon be tagged as predicted. Not long ago one of the other drives on the same backplane failed so I replaced it and the data rebuilt. I chose to then replace the one that had run some time as predicted. Now both (brand new 5/yr warranty) drives on that backplane are marked as predicted failure.
Do I really have that much trouble with the drives? Or should I assume that there is a problem with the enclosure/backplane.
The array did rebuild and show normal after both replacements - although by the time I got the second drive in and rebuilt, the first was complaining.
I am at wits end..............
Probably a silly question, but I see no indication from the RHEL OS running on a Dell R730 with Perc H730 controller whether or not there are 2 SSDs installed or 2 other types of disks. lssci command simply reports Perc H730, and nothing in dmidecode or dmesg that I can discern.
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I have a PowerEdge T100 that has 3 WD 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 config. The system is giving a message saying the RAID is degraded. When I go into the PERC S100 management console it shows 2 drives as online and the other drive as "ready", but I don't seem to have an option to do anything with it.
The system says it is already part of an array when I try to do anything with it.
The system hangs on "Dell PowerEdge T100", and then show "www.dell.com" and the cursor hangs there indefinitely. I'm nervous to try to physically pull the drive (0-00) from the machine but I'm thinking that is my next step.
Any help on the next steps would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm trying to do a PERC 6/i driver update on a PE 2950, but it's giving me the following error:
"Device: PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller, Application: PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller Driver
Operation failed. DriverieHelper failed to complete update."
Google and Dell searches didn't find the term "DriverieHelper" anywhere.
Trying to go from driver version 2.14.00.32 to 2.24.00.32
Any assistance appreciated.
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I have a PowerEdge R710 which has been experiencing unexpected reboots. Raised a call with Microsoft and they have come back say that, because the System log includes event ID2334 - Controller event log: Shutdown command received from host: Controller 0 (PERC 6/i Integrated).
These events seem to be logged approximately ten minutes AFTER the unexpected reboot, when the server is coming back up. Could they really be the cause of the issue or are they a symptom? I have exported a copy of the storage log and attached a zipped copy to this question.
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Hello,
I have a PowerEdge720 that I am trying to install ESXi 5.5 on. The system is set up using two SSDs as CacheCade, 2 600GB HDDs set at RAID 1, 11 HDDs set with RAID 5. The last HDD is assigned as a global hot spare. The set up appears to work fine until the last step when assigning the hot spare. The system became very slow to respond and for a while, I thought it froze. When it finally finishes and I begin to load ESXi, the system acted as though the load was going fine up until about 75 percent complete and then the system freezes. Not sure what to do with this machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
V/r,
Brent
I have a Poweredge SC1430, it stopped working (it replied to ping but not to SSH) I rebooted it and then it showed me the next message.
PCIe Training Error: Slot 1
System halted!
any ideas?
HI to all,
I'm considering install a PERC H310 into a Poweredge R200, in order to use 4TB disks for a local datastore iesx. Does anybody successfully install this controller into this server, and set it up with VMWare iEsx 5.1?
Regards,
Hello I have a Power Edge sc1430 with a SAS 5 Ir Raid Controller, with 2 WD HD's (WD2500YS 250GB)
One of them is damaged, don't work any more, the server is still running but I haven´t rebooted after the detection of the problem.
Since there is no possibility of buying the same disk, is it possible to reemplace the broken disk with a totaly diferent disk, for example a Toshiba HD with 500 GB of capacity?
Thank you very much!
Hi,
I noticed an amber light on one of the drives on my Dell R710. I connected to it via KVM and found that it was not booted and was displaying this message.
Foreign configuration(s) found on adapter. Press any key to continue, or ’C’ to load the configuration utility or ’F’ to import foreign configuration(s) and continue.
There are offline or missing virtual drives with preserved cache. Please check the cables and ensure that all drives are present. Press any key to enter the configuration utility."
Here is the information displayed in the PERC 6/i BIOS Config Utility:
VD Mgmt screen shows my RAID-5 status as Offline and my 4 physical disks as 00 - Missing, 01 - 00:01 139392MB, 02 - Missing, 03 - 00:03 139392MB
I am unable to expand the Physical Disk section on this screen.
The PD Mgmt screen shows all four drives as: Drive ID
00:00 Type SAS State Ready DG blank
00:01 Type SAS State Online DG 00
00:02 Type SAS State Foreign DG blank
00:03 Type SAS State Online DG 00
What is the difference between Ready and Online? I powered down the server and re-seated the drives. No change.
I read in the user guide that - NOTE: Ensure that your virtual disk has all the physical disks by verifying that there are no physical disks marked as Missing in the foreign view page and that all the disks appear as expected before importing them. I was unable to expand Physical Disks in the Foreign View screen but the Foreign Config Preview Controller Prop: show DG count 1, VD count 1 and PD count 4 for the Controller and VD count 1, PD count 3, and DHS 0 under Disk Group. The Foreign Config Preview Virtual Disk Prop shows RAID Level 5, RAID Status Foreign, Size NA VD count 1, PD count 3, DHS 0.
Unfortunately, I have no backup of this server AND it's critical that I recover it. :)
How should I proceed? Do I try a foreign config import? The user's guide had multiple methods for trying to import the foreign config. Is one way recommended for my situation?
Sorry if I've provided too much information. I wanted to give as much info as possible up front. I hope I've provided what is needed.
Thank you in advance for any advice you may have for me.
Regards, Susie
Hello,
We experienced a problem with our T300 Server that contained a lot of data. Per our IT Contractor they are claiming the RAID Controller is not operable. They are also saying the that light on the drivers do not have blinking lights either. I did notice that the T300 Server does have three (3) removable drives on the front of the unit. Would anyone have ideas on how we maybe able to obtain data off the T300 Server? Thank you in advance.
T300 Service Tag #<ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed per privacy policy>
Have a power edge 720 + H310 without battery
config, raid 5 (from 6 sas disk)
After an electric shortcut, I saw these logs, system operates normally. NOsystem errors yet.
should I concern?
VDR53
The consistency check logging of inconsistent parity data is disabled for Virtual Disk 0 on Integrated RAID Controller 1.
LOG007
The previous log entry was repeated 6 times.
VDR52
The consistency check found inconsistent parity data on Virtual Disk 0 on Integrated RAID Controller 1.
I need a bit of input here. The SAS 6 configuration utility shows Disk 1 has failed so the RAID is in a degraded state. My question is how do I go about replacing this drive?
At the moment the state of the OS is in bad condition. I can't install anything, just a bunch of weird things happening everywhere so I figured I'd fix the RAID before I try repairing Server 2003.
That being said Open Manager is not installed and I can't install it so managing the RAID through the OS is impossible.
To top it off I don't believe the drives are hot swappable. In the RAID utility the HOT SPR shows as NO for both drives.
How would I go about this? This is what I'm assuming needs to happen..
1. Shut down server (In this case force shut down because I can't even log out.. that's how bad the OS is)
2. Pop open the case and replace Disk 1
3. Boot the server and invoke the RAID utility
4. In there I would hit enter on the adapter
6. Hit enter on RAID properties
7. Hit enter on manage array
8. hit enter on synchronize RAID 1
Does this sound right to you guys?
Hi all
I have Dell T110II with PERC H700. I am running ESXi. I am trying to update firmware on RAID controller. I know H700 is not officially supported on T100ii, but it is running without any issues.
Does anyone he know how i can update the firmware?
Steps i tried:
1. I downloaded update that supposedly work from bootable dos disk, but it hangs on "Searching for PERC H700 adapter' message
2. I hooked up another HD and installed WIN2012 trying to update from GUI, but updater threw out message about not being compatible with the system.
I have hear people were able to upate H700 on white boxes, so there is a way.
Anybody?
I recently added a HD to this new server to act as the backup media for my 2012 windows server. I rebooted the box and the server halted. I unplugged new HD which was working fine till reboot and the server booted normally. It has done this for 2 hard drives to date.
Has anyone experienced this before?
Good day
I'm trying to installed 2 x WD red 2tb hdd in a new raid and use bare metal recovery reload. problem i get is the server keep on saying the HDD can not be used for recovery.
Anything im doing wrong
is it maybe cause the server was installed without raid and im trying add a raid ?
Regards
Gareth
Hi Everyone,
I have a Dell T310 Server with a PERC 6 Controller. My current setup is:
Disk 0 - 1TB
Disk 1 - 1TB
The drives above are mirrored and partitioned C and D drive.
The first problem I have is the C: drive is 40GB (from factory) and is running out of disk space.
I bought 2 - 2TB drives and I was hoping to install the drives, mirror them in addition to the 1TB drives and use the 2TB drives as the new D: - i would image the current data on D to the new drives.
I installed the 2 new drives (2.0 TB), but when i go into the raid controller settings i am only able to assign the drives as hot spare?
Can anyone please let me know what i am doing wrong?
I have a full backup of the server already.
Thanks.
CSFD
I was trying to update the bios in the PERC H710P mini that came with an R620 server (booting into the bios of the RAID card, the card listed itself as H710P mini).
However, none of the available updates would load-- each said card not present. I was using the dos based installs, since this is a VMWare host. The three updates I tried were
H710 mini monolithic, H710P, and H710P blade.
Any ideas? I didn't want to force an update with the no-check option.
H710P
Hi,
I have 10 R730xd servers with 16 SSDs in each. This weekend 4 of them have shown in the iDRAC Storage Event Log that several drives have been reset.
Why is this, and should I worry about them being about to fail? I already had 2 of these new LITEON drives crash on me.
System 1:
2015-03-01T18:48:54+0100 Disk 5 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 was reset.
System 2:
2015-03-01T12:54:53+0100 Disk 5 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 was reset.
System 3:
2015-03-01T19:30:17+0100 Disk 13 in Backplane 1 of RAID Controller in Slot 3 was reset.
2015-02-28T16:59:22+0100 Disk 6 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 was reset.
2015-02-28T08:05:23+0100 Disk 5 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 was reset.
System 4:
015-03-01T10:54:49+0100 Disk 18 in Backplane 1 of RAID Controller in Slot 3 was reset.
The megacli commands shows an error count of 1 under "Other Error Count".
/usr/sbin/megacli -PDList -aALL -NoLog
Media Error Count: 0
Other Error Count: 1
Predictive Failure Count: 0
Last Predictive Failure Event Seq Number: 0