I am trying to update the firmware on SAS drives ST3600057SS with image
SAS-Drive_Firmware_V38WK_WN32_ES68_A07
Each time I get a The operation failed due to an invalid image file. Tried downloading it again with no luck.
RAID Controller is a PERC H310
What can I try?
Thanks.
I have a PE2900 with 0 and 1 drives on raid 1 with my OS and 2-7 on raid 5. This is a domain sever running 2008 and is critical to my operation. I've had a catastrophic failure of the raid on 0 and 1 and lost both drives. It was a drive issue not a raid issue. I have a backup but when I install it it doesn't recognize the raid so it only installs to one drive. I was on tech support with the backup software people for hours until they gave up. So, I'm currently running the server using one drive. I made clones immediately. Would it get me back to normal if I take 2 new drives and create a raid 0 then take one or both out and clone to the current single drive that I know works and reinstall the new raid 1 drives?
Thank you,
David
We just recently added a new MD1200 enclosure and new H800 RAID Controller to a T610 server.
We noticed rather poor raw read performance (a little less than 200 MBytes/Sec) with no server load and no applications running. Upon further examination we saw that the existing H700/Internal RAID was showing the same lower performance, previously it was running about 500 MBytes/Sec.
We tested the MD1200 on another chassis (T320 w/H810) and it performed well, about 600MBytes/Sec. Dell sent us another H800 (original new one also had a battery issue) but the performance in the T610 did not improve.
The T610 is running Windows Server 2008 R2 with all current Microsoft updates. BIOS is at v6.4.0.
The Power Profile is set to Maximum Performance.
Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this issue?
Thanks!
Mark
Got a PowerEdge T310 running PERC 6/i.
We had a 3 drive RAID which I assume was RAID5. It wouldn't boot and the PERC utility showed a disk offline. This was tested and found to be bad, and replaced with a drive of the same specs.
I assigned it as a hot spare hoping for a rebuild but it didn't do anything and no rebuild options were available in the basic GUI. I noticed the RAID level for the Virtual Disk was 0 but we're 99% sure this was not the original RAID level. Seeing as we have a recent full backup I deleted the VD and recreated it as a RAID 5 array and rebooted.
Now it's showing a bar next to Virtual Disk 0 at 9% and the Operation says "Back Init"
Should I leave this or stop it and do a an Initialisation (which I didn't do when I created the new VD)?
Is it trying to recreate the old RAID 5?
How should I proceed now to get our server back up and running ASAP?
Thanks
Hi there.....
I'm building a PowerEdge 630 Server, which has mostly SSD drives installed. In order to get the best performance from the disks overtime, I was looking at TRIM support with hardware RAID. Using the PERC H730 controller, I hardware raided the first 2 SSDs as RAID 1 (which I might rebuild later as SW raid). I then started to look at the other SSD disks, which I need to be individual disks.
The options I have are to create each disk as a Virtual RAID 0 and present that to the OS using the H730 or I can set the disks to non-RAID and pass them through to the OS directly.
What I'm unsure about here is the best way to do this considering the SSD's, TRIM support and overall performance? Do I even need to consider TRIM support? The documentation is unclear on the controllers ability to support it in hardware RAID mode, but firmware documentation does say non-raid disks only.
I have run some tests to try and figure this out, but it's still a work in progress.
With both a virtual HW raid0 disk and a non-raid disk, with ext4 filesystem. I have filled disk space up so both devices are full. Using the command #dd if=/dev/zero of=/diskX/zeros ***=1M
I then delete the file and watch how long before the OS shows the disk as having free space. It some instances the Virtual raid disk has been better. I have also been running some speed tests on the disks.
Mount options for the non-raid disk include “discard” and I have also used the #fstrim /diskX, command.
Unsure which is the best way to go here any ideas?
I have an older 2900 (ST: <REMOVED>) that had a power failure last night. Since then it won't initialize the drives. Error is:
F/W us in Fault State
Adaptor at Baseport FC48h is not responding
No Adaptor
Steps Taken:
1. I've reseated adaptor
2. disconnected battery/held power button in 20 secs
3. moved drives from one cage to another
4. removed each drive one at a time and tried boot
5. moved cables around/tried different port on controller
The only thing that seems to make any difference is if I disconnect all the drives at the same time and then I get the messages about "none of your drives in the configuration are present".
Please advise - I very much appreciate your time in advance.
Dear Experts
Our server is showing the predictive failures for the 3 drives out of 8 drives in RAID 10 configuration. Please see the attached image. We have an SQL Server database on it with 40gb data. 3 days before, there was a db corruption and we fixed it but today again we have got another db corruption. So we suspect that one of the discs may be creating problem. This db is on C drive. Now which hard drives are making up the C drive?
We are in a country where hardware expertise in RAID does not exist. We could not find any expert locally to help us in this issue. Thanks in advance for your expert help.
Hello
I recently purchased a Dell r320 from the Outlet.
Unfortunately I've realised that I probably shouldn't have gone for the Perc H310, so am looking to upgrade. I'd also like it to run with supported SSDs, even though it has the 3.5" drive caddy format. Can someone help me work out which parts I need to purchase to get this spec. I don't mind switching from SATA to SAS (presumably this is just a change of cable?).
Thanks for your asssistance.
Hello,
I have an H710 Mini with 5 attached discs that I want configured as a RAID10+hotspare.
I was, and am, a bit confused by the term "spans" even after reading the manual and some google searches. I went about it by selecting RAID10 and then adding 2 "spans", thinking this means the spans would be RAID1 and it would stripe over the 2 spans. However I can find no supporting information in the DRAC or openmanage to confirm that this is functioning that way.
Images are below, can it be confirmed this is indeed a properly configured RAID10?
Thank you,
I have a client with a Dell Poweredge T610 using a Perc 6i integrated controller. Unfortunately there's a problem with the backplane so we've ordered a replacement server. The new server is a Poweredge T410 using a Perc H710 controller. In an old post by someone named PoweredgeTech I saw that he mentions the possibility of importing disks from one system / controller into another.
Does anyone happen to have instructions or can point me to a link that would explain how to (hopefully, "seamlessly") move the disks from the T610 (with the Perc 6i controller) to the new T410 (with the Perc H710 controller) when the server is delivered from Dell?
This same issue happened to me personally, I had a server crash internally. I use Acronis server backup on my own servers. I had a problem restoring to a new server because Dell's perc controller drivers are proprietary and I couldn't use the Acronis Linux based recovery CD to recover my old server image to the new server. When I created a WINPE recovery image the new Dell server wouldn't recognize USB ports - so mouse and keyboard actions weren't recognized in the WINPE environment. Kind of a catch-22 for me. I was forced to reinstall and rebuild my Active Directory environment because I didn't have a Windows backup image (system image) - always relying on my Acronis images.
Russ
I have a PE720 with a PERC 6/ir controller.
I have two 1.0 TB drives set up a a RAID-1 mirror. One drive is going bad and the mirror is trying to re-sync but I don't think it will finish because of the failing drive.
Can I break the mirror in the controller BIOS and establish a single RAID-0 stripe with the one good drive? My fear is when I add the single RAID-0 stripe the controller will initialize the drive and my data will be gone.
Is this normal? I just set the server up on Raid 1. There is a message saying Virtual Disk 0 is degraded and the physical disk is rebuilding. 
dear expert,
How to solve E1614 and E1624 ?
I have a PE2900 with Perc 5/I that has Server 2012 R2 installed, OMSA is saying the controller firmware is not current, needs to be 5.2.2-0072. I've download that from http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=2RPK0&osCode=WS8R2&fileId=2974571956
When I attempt this update it says "The update package is running on an unsupported operating system".
Besides creating floppy disks is there another way to install the update? or am I safe to continue with the windows update package?
Have a T310 Poweredge running Windows Server 2003. Whoever installed and Raided it, set the C drive as 22GB, D 19.3 E: 792GB F: 1.95GB
I want to sort this out and re-raid to be one drive it but don't want to reinstall the OS if I can help it but am prepared to. If I boot to the Configuration Utility (Ctrl+R), It will only lets me delete the virtual disk on RAID 1 - if I was to do this, what would happen? I'm not able to reconfigure in Openmanage I get an error of not enough physical disk space
I have an older Dell PE R520 with a mixture of hotswap SATA and SAS drives connected to an integrated H710 (512Mb) RAID controller. The system is setup as a VDI server with Citrix Xenserver and VIAB. We're not getting the VDI performance we'd like, so my plan is to replace the 4 SAS 15K 300Gb drives with 4 SSDs. Currently the system has 2x500Gb SATA drives in RAID1 for the boot of Xenserver and then a RAID 10 volume with the 4 SAS drives for my VMs. The server has a 3 1/2" backplane with 8 drive slots.
My question is can I use 2 1/2" SSDs in the existing 3 1/2" slots? I presume there's an adapter. Also, can I use off-the-shelf SSDs like Intel or Samsungs? My VMs are primarily read intensive, so I don't think I need top-of-the-line Enterprise SSDs. I found some hybrid SSD drives on Dell's part site but they're only 3Mbps SATA drives and I'd prefer to use 6Mbps.
Thanks for any input.
Ken
Hi,
I have a PowerEdge R320 server with ESX installed on it, we have two free HDD slots on this server and would like to add one more HDD to this, since we need more space for OS.
Currently we have RAID 1 config, can we add extra HDD without breaking the RAID.
Thanks.
Hi everyone!
I need some help: my Lab have a PowerEdge R510 with Raid Hardware controlled by Dell Perc H700. Unfortunately I can't poweroff the server because a lot of jobs are running on it. Is there a way to know how is the raid configuration without entering the Bios utility? Maybe through openmanage?
Thanks in advance!
Andrea
We have installed dell customized image of ESXI 6.0 (
VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0-2494585.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso)
SPERC Controller is not detecting in our server.
Please suggest/Advice what to do.
Hence this driver and device is not found on ESXI, Storage adapters, I am not able to see the Drives which is assigned from VRTX-CMC.
Thank you in advance.
I want to expand a RAID of our server PowerEdge R510. Now there are 3 disks of 600GB. It's possible to add another disk of 600GB to this RAID without data deletion?
Thanks