Just trying to set up a basic Windows install. I have six of these, and the other five were flawless setups.
The drive I'm using is a Samsung EVO 850 SSD and it's totally healthy and shows up fine in other computers. When entering the RAID controller from the BIOS, though, the option to create a new VD is greyed out, and it appears there's nothing I can do to get the RAID controller to recognize the drive.
Any thoughts? Thanks all.
Hello ! - I got some 3TB Seagate ST3000NM0023 drives from a broken VNX enclosure. I tried to connect one or several to a Dell PERC H700 Raid Adapter with latest firmware 12.1.0.7 - 0001. They are seen by the controller but as soon as I want to create a VD, it fails initialising - in the controllers drive list, the drives move up and turn red and they are not seen by Windows either at all.
Any ideas ? - Is the controller compatible with these drives ? - Maybe these drives, coming from a VNX have a different firmware somehow ? - Any help is highly appreciated after making tests and attempts for a week now...
Thanks in advance !
Hi,
I have a T330 with the 8 bay backplane.
I want to add a H330 so I can use all 8 drive bays.
There is one cable (SAS - 06JY5Y) between the motherboard and the backplane.
When I add the H330, what specific cables do I need between the H330 and the 8 bay backplane.
From the T330 manual I see two cables running from the/a PERC card to the backplane...
As a result, I'm looking to figure out what else I might need other than just a H330 (unless, it comes with the necessary T330 cables :-) )
Thanks, Stephen
Hello,
I was wondering if it is possible to add SATA drives to a dell R530, create a new array and use them within VM.
I'm thinking about this option to store the "File History" of about 20 computer on our network and need about 6TB. The price of SAS drives is a bit prohibitive for that much space so I was wondering is SATA would be an alternative.
Regards
Hi!
I'm currently configuring new RAID 10 array in T710 with H700 RAID controller. I'm using 6 SATA drives so I have 2 empty slots for future expansion. I would like to confirm if it would be possible to expand RAID 10 array in the future with two more drives? Also would be nice to know if there is a possibility to exchange the drives in the array with larger ones if it will be needed in the future?
Help and verified answers much appreciated.
I've got a Powervault NX3200 with a PERC H710 Mini controller. It's running MS Storage Server 2012 (a slimmed down Windows Server 2012, non R2) I can't find an updated driver for the H710 on this OS. Dell's support page for the system shows a driver for Server 2008 R2 but not 2012. The 2008 driver will not install on 2012. Open Manage Server Admin shows this for the versions:
Driver version is out of date
Firmware Version: 21.3.2-0005
Driver Version: 6.801.05.00
Minimum Required Driver Version: 6.803.21.00
Storport Driver Version: 6.2.9200.16813
The "driver out of date" alert came up after updating other drivers and firmware for the system. It is running fine but but the fans are making a lot more noise since the other updates.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bob G
Hello,
I have a PowerEdge T420 with PERC H710 controller and I'm looking for adding some 8TB SATA hard drives. The local sales rep offers me "400-ATKV - Dell 8TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gbps 512e 3.5in Hot-plug HDD", but tells me it's compatible only with the newest 14G servers and to buy it at my own risk.
Has anybody some experience with these HDDs trying to add them to a 12G server? Can I add 8TB SATA to T420?
Thanks very much in advance!
Hi all.
One of our servers in a remote office has no support on it as it has become EOL, so we will be replacing the server with a newer one.
We use the server for Vmware ESX and the operating system is held on the SD Card based on the motherboard. This would be the case with the new server too.
The issue is i need to move the 3 Virtual Disks held in the raid configuration to the new server, these disks are the datastores where the virtual machines are held.
The old server is a Poweredge R720xd - with a PERC H710p mini controller
The new server is a Poweredge R730xd - with a PERC H730 RAID controller
Would these disks transfer without any issues? Are there any best practices i need to be aware of?
Many thanks.
I just got several blades with these new disks. I am unsure how these are to be configured as there is no hardware RAID. I am wanting to install Windows 2012 R2. Is creating a mirror within Windows the method for configuring these or is there some Dell software that needs to be installed?
Hello,
I have an R815 that currently has a PERC H700. We'd like to replace that with an H800 so that we can add more trays of disks to the server. What do I need to know to make this swap? How does the H800 pick up the disk configuration?
Thanks
-Bob
I have a PowerEdge R520 with 6, 600 GB SAS drives in RAID5 running as VM host for critical SP and ERP servers. Last week the server crashed. I went to the data center and found out that one of the six drives had a blinking orange light and the server was in BIOS mode unable to load the OS. Upon restarting, "Foreign Configurationmessagege popped up. I impoted the Foregon config and was able to Boot to OS. The server stayed up in this state for few hours before crashed again. I ordered a new drive and took it to the data center today. The server was again in the crashed stage. I inserted the new drive by replacing the old one and got the BIOS message about the "foreign configuration. Pressed C and another messages showed up in BIOS about the controller configuration being changed and it is an irreversible process. I left everything at that point to get some advice before moving forward. Here are two questions I have.
1) In RAID 5, single disk failure should not take the server down. Why is my server keep crashing? I did not find anything related to the controller when I was able to boot to the OS earlier this week.
2) In which order should I swap the drive. Should lI put the old bad drive back in the system? Import the Foreign config and boot to the OS and do a hot swap?
3) If i start the server by inserting the new drive then what should I do with the Foreign config message and the message about "you are about to change the configuration on the controller". Is this the safest route.
The whole idea behind this long message is to avoid any DATA LOSS. I have not pressed any wrong keys at this point, therefore all of my current data is intact and I can boot to the OS using the old disk which will crash in few hours. I certainly don't want to lose any data and config at this point.
Thanks
I currently have a T320 with a H310 Perc. I have (3) 1TB NLSAS drives in a RAID 1 with a spare. I want to add an additional (4) 1TB Drives and expand and create a RAID10 array with a spare. Without reinstalling the OS, is this possible?
As an aside, can someone please point me to the latest firmware for this controller. The website lists to many options and I am concerned I will not choose correctly.
Thank you,
MarshalK
I have a PowerEdge T320. I want to upgrade the SAS RAID driver for PERC H710, but the only one for Windows is for server 2008R2. I'm running server 2012R2. Will this be compatible?
Hi,
Please HELP, Server automatically goes to "no configuration Present" All four HDD(raid-5) showing amber color.
1- PowerEdge T620 with Windows 2008 R2
2- Error Irad
Hi,
R230 is offered here in configuration with just single SSD 120GB drive and H330 controller. Would it be possible to use the SSD as Windows OS drive and add 3x SATA HDD in RAID5 configuration for data? Online configurator does not allow that, always requiring all drives the same, but it sounds like rather business than technical restriction.
Thanks, David
Hello,
I have a PowerEdge T110 II with a PERC S100 Raid-5 setup. Disk 0 is currently in degraded mode and there is a failure predicted warning. I have a new disk here to replace this one with, I am just wondering the procedure for this machine.
The Raid-5 is built of 3 500GB SATA disks.
Any help would be great.
Hi All, my server is 2 months out of warranty and I will get a new warranty, but it will take some time to get management to pay for it.
I have a R720 with a Raid 1 setup and 1 drive has failed. Server is up and running.
I have two questions that I need answers to:
1 - Can someone confirm that the drive are hot swapable
2 - Will the RAID 1 rebuild it self after added the new drive or do I need to schedule downtime for the RAID to rebuild.
Thank You
Devin
Good afternoon,
I wondering the max size of single HDD I can use in my stock T110ii server? I have plans on turning it into a FreeNas NAS and have a couple of 3TB WD Red drives I wanted to use. Will these work?
Thanks
So I have 10 TB raid 5 and I couldn't get the unallocated space to make separate disks when setting up Server 2008 R2 SP1. Now that Windows is installed I can see the unallocated space but still cant make a new volume with it.