I would like to put a 6TB SATA HDD into a Dell PowerEdge T310 but before i buy the drive i would like to know if it would work.
I don't want to use RAID i just want to attach the drive using SATA.
On the tech spec for the server it says that SATA is 2TB but maximum internal storage is 12TB.
I am told that even though it is a SW raid contoller the S310 should appear in OMSA. Mine doesn't!
Dell webiste says
When the installation is complete, to configure the S130 controller, install the configuration driver (if necessary) used by Dell OpenManage (OMSA) component.
Do we know what the "configutration driver" is?
I have a few questions regarding configuration of a Raid array on a VRTX with (2) M620's and vcenter 5.5
vCenter will mostly host about 10VM's uning linux and windows server.
I know that the confifuration depends upon a multitude of factors, I am just curious of what others are doing.
Thanks in advance for your time
Clay
We have a Dell Power Edge 710 with Windows Server 2008 R2. We are trying to Image the server with Acronis Snap Deploy for Servers. Since it will be booting from a USB I need the original driver dvd iso so the Drives can be seen. The server is a RAID 5.
Here are the current driver versions from 2011 and specs. Nobody ever updated drivers.
Firmware Version 6.3.0-0001
Driver Version 4.05.01.64
6.3.0-0001
Driver Version 4.05.01.64
Storport Driver Version 6.1.7601.18386
Physical Disks
ID 0:0:0
Status OK
Name Physical Disk 0:0:0
State Online
Bus Protocol SAS
Media HDD
Revision HT64
Failure Predicted No
Capacity 136.12GB
Used RAID Disk Space 136.12GB
Available RAID Disk Space 0.00GB
Hot Spare No
Vendor ID DELL(tm)
Product ID ST9146852SS
Serial No. 6TB1T2LK
Part Number CN0X162K7262215M013MA01
Manufacture Day 03
Manufacture Week 22
Manufacture Year 2011
SAS Address 5000C5003ABF18E5
Can somebody tell me where I can download the original software that came with system?
Thank you
David
Hello,
is this driver supported also for sles 11 sp3? As we are having performance problems with R630 and H330 in SLES 11 sp3:
In the driver it is indicated that is for RED hat.
Thanks and BR/
Cristina
I have a couple of new R730 servers with a PERC H730, 16-disk expander backplane and a couple of 300GB 15k SAS disks.
When I put the H730 into HBA/Non-RAID mode everything appears to work fine - I can install an OS - but disk performance is truly horrible. I managed only about 60Mb/s write speed and the service times went up to in excess of 300ms. However, if I put each disk in its own RAID0 and performance is fine. Everything is on latest firmware (as of last night) and I've tried a few different operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris) and they all exhibit the same problem.
Here's some stats from Solaris in HBA mode:
extended device statistics ---- errors ---
r/s w/s Mr/s Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot device
0.0 142.0 0.0 11.6 0.0 10.0 0.0 70.4 0 100 0 0 0 0 c0t0d1s0
0.0 142.6 0.0 11.6 0.0 10.0 0.0 70.1 0 100 0 0 0 0 c0t1d1s0
and with RAID0:
extended device statistics ---- errors ---
r/s w/s Mr/s Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot device
0.0 2829.2 0.0 232.0 0.0 9.8 0.0 3.5 2 99 0 0 0 0 c0t0d0s0
0.0 2823.6 0.0 231.5 0.0 9.9 0.0 3.5 2 100 0 0 0 0 c0t1d0s0
That's more like it!
I've reset the card to factory defaults several times and tried the two different available firmwares for the H730 and the two that are available for the backplane - no difference.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Is anyone using the H730 in HBA mode?
Thanks,
Barney
Dell Power Edge T710
OS is on one drive set
I need to increase my entire second drive set from 6-600 to 6-900 or larger drives. Is this possible to do?
All drive bays are in use. Second set is partitioned.
This server hosts a sql data base.
Thanks in Advance
ed
I have a PowerEdge T320 with a PERC H710 that I am trying to configure with 2 SSDs that are self-encrypting drives. I believe I have configured them correctly. I added the drives to a Virtual disk group. I created the Security Mgmt Key. Under the Disk Group I told it to secure the Disk Group. But I get no message saying the group is secured and see no indication anywhere that it is secured.
Since SEDs that are managed are locked down until the security key is entered at initial system start time, I am wondering why I am not prompted during a cold boot for the security key to unlock the drives. I have not done anything further with these drives, like install an OS, yet.
Does anyone have experience with this? Is there any further documentation on this beyond the basic PERC H710 configuration document. It only tells how to configure the array, but does not go into any detail on when I should be prompted to enter the security key at a cold boot.
Thanks in advance.
I bought a PowerEdge C6100 off of EBAY: DELL POWEREDGE C6100 XS23-TY3 24B 8 x SIX CORE L5640 192GB NO HDD
I put some Crucial MX100 drives in and I cannot see them within the bios. I do not have a RAID controller.
Can someone please explain what I should do next? I do not see the Ctrl-R option. I have tried ACHI, IDE, and other options within the bios.
Please let me know if anyone has any solutions...
Older versions like A35 will take a USB drive bigger than 2GB and just partition 2GB of it for use with this program. The readme for A49 says it still does that but when I run the program is says it only supports 2gb and smaller? Anyone else run into this? Hard to find USB that small these days.
Thanks,
Greg
Current Setup: 3x 300GB 15k SAS drive in 0,1,2 slots. RAID 5
Trying to expand my RAID 5. Installed new drive in slot 3 on Connector 0 next to the existing 3 drives. Drive powered on, OSMA sees it as ready.
Installed two more drives in bay 4 and 5. Drives power on, but are not recognized by OSMA.
Found similar issue here...
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/425796-advice-appreciated-dell-2900?page=2
A bit queezy about re-seating the backplane on a production server. Any alternatives or thoughts before I end up doing this? Thank you so much.
Added disk to Perc H700 Raid 5 Array now it only two disks in OMSA
Here are the steps I followed
Disk was blinking amber and showed failed and spun up, on OMSA
Pulled disk out and replaced with new disk
Lights dont come on, on drive caddy now
It only shows two disks on OMSA now
What do i need to do to get it to recognize and start rebuilding?
I also tried to stick the old disk back in to see if that caddy light would come on, but it didn't
Its like its not sending power to that slot anymore.
I do not have any amber lights for a failed drive on the PowerEdge T410 server. But, when I reboot the server and during the Post sessions I see this message:
The battery is currently discharged or disconnected. VDs configured in write back mode will run in write through mode to protect your data and will return to write back policy when the battery is operational. If VDs have not returned to write back mode after 30 minutes of charging then contact technical support.
The following VDs are affected: 00
Press any key to continue
1 Virtual Drive(s) found on the host adapter
1 Virtual Drive(s) Degraded
1 Virtual Drive(s) handled by BIOS
I have 5 drives installed and using a PERC 700 card.
Do I have a failed drive? Server is running and boots...but does seem slower than normal.
I had 2 RAID1 arrays, OS (Win 2008 R2) and data. I replaced the data drives with larger ones, but when I went into the RAID configuration it could only see one of the new drives, in addition to the OS array. After reseating the drives, and trying other slots on the backplane it finally saw both new drives, but after creating the new array the initialization failed, and after rebooting the controller did not detect ANY of the drives. Again after moving drives around I finally found 2 slots (2 and 3) where the controller detected the original OS drives and identified them as a RAID1 array, but it was marked as inactive, and the "Activate Array" option was grayed out. The only option available was "Delete Array." And it still did not detect the 2 new drives.
Does this mean the SAS 6/iR has died (it does initialize when during boot) or maybe a problem with the backplane? Or is there something else I can try to get it to see all the drives again?
Thanks,
Dave
Dear all,
I'm new to working with servers, raid's and hard drives that can be hot swappable. In our organisation we have two servers. Both in Raid 5 and on Poweredge 2950. One server was one month ago showing a failed hard drive, the other one is showing a removed hard drive, both in the open manage server administrator.
On the server that showed failed hard drive I took it out and put it back in to see if it would rebuild. It did but the size of the raid is not back to extended so it must have failed and now I will replace it. However I would like to ask you if I need to do any step in the server before I physically replace it?
On the other server. Which step do I follow so it sees the hard drive and adds it to the raid?
One final question. In the virtual disk info I saw that I can do a consistency check on the drives. If I start that, will that interfere with working with these servers (meaning should I do it after work hours)? Can there be any problems doing that? If regularly, how often should I do that?
Thanks for help about these!
Nitman
Hi all,
I have a RAID5 array with 3 x Seagate 1TB 7.2K SAS HD (ST31000640SS)
One of them just failed and i need to replace it ASAP. I have a 11 days delay with DELL. I found a similar drive in one of our local store :
Seagate Constellation ES.3 1.0TB 7200RPM SAS600 128MB (ST1000NM0023)
Since it is a SAS600 and i think My Perc6/i is a SAS300 controller ?? How can i found out if it is compatible ?? I can't find a compatibility list ?
Thank you !
Starting my small medical office with an onsite server (PE320) with H710 PERC for anticipated RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays. The content of my questions exposes my ignorance. I am using the Life Cycle Controller app to try to configure stuff. I had thought to put MS Server 2012 on the RAID 1 array and plop all of my other apps (MySQL based in the main one) on the RAID 10 side of things. Can this be done? Is it even wise? Or would you just take all 6 2.5" 15K 300 GB drives and put them into a RAID 10 array. It's a small office, with just 4-5 clients. Doubt performance issues will be big, and plan on back-up in other ways. Oh, and is it correct to refer to the individual arrays (1 and 10) as VDs? Just looking for some light...
Dr. P
Hello
On a 12th gen R320, is there any reason to prefer the H710 mini mono over the H710 adapter?
Do both types require a different cable set to connect to a 8x 2,5" hot plug backplane?
For the adapter type, should it be full height or half height?
thanks
Chris
Hello,
I have been trying to deploy an OS to a dell poweredge 730 using the dell lifecycle controller. It seems that only a single vdisk can be created through the lifecycle controller to deploy the operating system on. How can I create a second array for my data storage? Do i have to go through the BIOS configuration utility for the PERC afterwards? ie. <ctrl> <R>? Or does a later version of the lfiecycle controller support multiple vdisks? Currently I am using LCC 2 which is preinstalled on the server. Thank you.