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R710 - Used w/ no HDDs or Raid Card

September 25, 2017, 5:12 pm
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Hello - I started a position at a new company and they have two used Poweredge 710's (LFF) they bought from auction. Both are equipped with 48 GB of RAM, but come with No Hard drives or Raid Controllers. 

They current backplane is a 4 bay 3.5 inch with 1 SAS connection (Part #: C389D). There are no drive trays present either, so those would need to be purchased as well. 

I was looking at H700 controller, and would like to get some SSD drives for the storage as the actual storage requirements aren't much (500 GB usable) in terms of size. Mostly looking for speed. Pending cost of drives would like to do 4 drives in a RAID 10. 

Is this achievable with the current backplane? I can't seem to find any information regarding the C389D backplane and if it can handle 2.5 inch drives. Assuming it can't, what would be a replacement part that would be compatible?  Is this even possible with 3.5 inch bays? Or would I be better served to just stick to 3.5 inch 15k drives, and keep the current backplane paired with the H700? 

Thanks for any information you can provide. 

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Read Failure & BAD tape

September 26, 2017, 12:22 am
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Hi,

We are using PoweEdge Rs520 server and PV-124T autoloader with LTO5 tape drive for the backup operations. Recently, tape alert TA[11] CleaningMedia and TA[20] CleanNow occured. The cleaning tape was inserted, the tape alert was CleaningSuccessful but the status was loading. After all this cleaning operation, the cleaning tape was ejected. The tapes for backup after getting into the drive get label as BAD  and Tape Alert currently is TA[05] ReadFailure. As a reult of this no backup opeartion can be done by the server. Please suggest a solution to this ASAP.

Thanks & Regards

Divya

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R420 with failure predicted

September 26, 2017, 6:57 am
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I have a Power Edge R420 with a Perc H310 mini and 3 disk raid 5 configuration. One of my disks is flashing amber with a "failure predicted" message in open manage administrator. Do I have to take the failed drive offline before replacing it?

Thanks

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Poweredge R630 (diskless) - upgrade from software RAID to hardware RAID

September 26, 2017, 8:24 am
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I have a few R630 systems that were initially deployed as "diskless" with external storage for a virtual environment.  The environment is expanding and would like to upgrade the existing servers to allow for VSAN by leveraging a hardware RAID controller.  

From what I'm finding, this is possible as long as all the parts are installed.  The Dell customer kit for the controllers contain the card or minicard, but not the cable necessary to connect to the backplane.  

The chassis of the R630 being used is the 8-bay 2.5".

Could someone please validate, the parts I believe are necessary for this change to work (see below):

* please note, we are deciding between the H730p minicard or the H730 controller card.

1. If we go with the H730P minicard customer kit, then need cable part # K43RY

2. If we go with the H730 controller customer kit, then need cable part # 1N2WK

Also, will the warranty/maintenance on the actual system still be valid?

These systems will be rebuilt, so no data will be involved or need to be backed up.

Plan to migrate by doing the following, overview (once parts are validated)

  • Installing the HW controller customer kit and appropriate cable to the backplane
  • Installing the disk drives
  • Configure desired RAID and install OS

Thank you.

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Physical Disk Missing

September 27, 2017, 11:38 pm
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I got  two physical disk missing in the server BIOS array when I replaced two new HDD into the server . We are using DELL PowerEdge 2960 and the RAID controller is PERC 5/i Integrated BIOS Configuration. We configure as RAID 5 and total disk is 5.  

I got this error message when i click on Rebuild . "Error ! Start Rebuild operation failed ! "

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PE T420 with 2 SCSI drives -- can we expand?

September 28, 2017, 7:28 am
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I have a 4 year old server (6NF19Y1) that currently has 2 mirrored SCSI drives.  Can we add more drives as configured or would it take a remove and replace of drives?

Thank you

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Disk requirements for SED - PERC H700

September 28, 2017, 8:18 am
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Hello,

I was given the task of securing disks to the case of data theft,I have a Dell R510 server with H700 controller.
My question:
Will not certified drives with SED support will be ok to run encryption on disks?
I was thinking about buying 4 x SEAGATE ST2000NM0085 2TB, (supports SED) and create Raid 10 with encryption.
I found some topics on the forum but did not break my questions en.community.dell.com/.../19406280
I currently have four disks wd red pro 2Tb - Raid10 (but they do not have SED support): 
ID                              : 0:0:4
Status                          : Non-Critical
Name                            : Physical Disk 0:0:4
State                           : Online
Power Status                    : Spun Up
Bus Protocol                    : SATA
Media                           : HDD
Part of Cache Pool              : Not Applicable
Remaining Rated Write Endurance : Not Applicable
Failure Predicted               : No
Revision                        : 81.00A81
Driver Version                  : Not Applicable
Model Number                    : Not Applicable
T10 PI Capable                  : No
Certified                       : No
Encryption Capable              : No

Where can I  find setup instructions for SED and PERC?
Where can I find a list of certified drives for dell server?
thank you very much for the help.
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Drives not appearing under raid card or lighting up

October 1, 2017, 9:44 am
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I just got a refurbished r710 with a perc h700 raid card. I put three 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 enterprise drives in and none of them are lighting up on the outside or showing up in the raid card. I'm new to servers so how do I get them to work? 

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Hot Spare initialization

October 2, 2017, 10:12 am
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I have a T420 server with PERC H710P controller with 3 RAID 1 Virtual Disks.

I want to add a hot spare to the system and want to slow initialize the drive.

Is there an option to do that from OpenManage or the BIOS?

Thanks

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CRITICAL: PE R710 PERC 6/E MD1000 Offline

October 3, 2017, 7:30 am
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Hi,

our MD1000 disk array on a PER710 connected via PERC 6/E goes offline under heavy read operations like during backups. Here is the error:

10/03/17 6:41:10: mfiIsr: idr=00000020 

10/03/17 6:41:10: Driver detected possible FW hang, halting FW.
10/03/17 6:41:10: Pending Command Details:

10/03/17 6:41:10: cmdId= a3: cmd=4, cmdStat=0, num_sg_elements=1, status=1 [PCI_COMMAND]
10/03/17 6:41:10: mfa=cf217b80, mf=a04cc000, mfSge=a04cc028, bytesTransferred=0, next ffff
10/03/17 6:41:10: startTime=0, lines=a17de230, lineMap=0, activeRecoveryCount=0, lockPromotedByRec=0
10/03/17 6:41:10: ldbbmAlreadyTried=0, ldbbmIssueWriteAsWV=0
10/03/17 6:41:10: hdr.length=100 opcode=1040500 mbox=00008f2b fe00ffff 00000000


10/03/17 6:41:10: Total Pending Commands = 1
[0]: fp=a00bef08, lr=a0c41918 - _MonTask+1a8
[1]: fp=a00bf130, lr=a0cc17e4 - mfiIdrIsr+124
[2]: fp=a00bf148, lr=e401e960 - dispatchIsrs+c4
[3]: fp=a00bf178, lr=e401e9f0 - external_IRQ+34
[4]: fp=a00bf190, lr=e401e074 - wrapper__External_IRQ+74
[5]: fp=a00bf1e0, lr=e401e928 - dispatchIsrs+8c
[6]: fp=a00bf1e8, lr=a0c428a8 - MonCheck+38
[7]: fp=a00bf278, lr=a0c536cc - raid_task+860
[8]: fp=a00bffa0, lr=a0cbd384 - _main+aa4
[9]: fp=a00bfff8, lr=fe001d58 - __start+ce0
MonTask: line 3622 in file ../../raid/1078dma.c
UIC_ER=10000ac:5500063, UIC_MSR=0:40, MSR=21000, sp=a00bef08
MegaMon> pciPowerMgmtInt: Requested Power State: D3
pciPowerMgmtInt: Requested Power State: D0

T0: LSI Logic ROC firmware
T0: Copyright (C) LSI Logic, 2004
T0: Firmware version 1.22.52-1909 built on Sep 21 2012 at 15:29:16

T0: pciInit: O_PCI_SERVICE = 00000005
T0: Initializing memory pool size=00300B24 bytes
T0: Press '!' within 3 seconds to enter debugger before INIT
T3: LogInit: Flushing events from previous boot
T3: EVT#36651-10/03/17 6:41:10: 15=Fatal firmware error: Driver detected possible FW hang, halting FW.

T3: EVT#36652-10/03/17 6:41:10: 15=Fatal firmware error: Line 3622 in ../../raid/1078dma.c

T3: EVT#36653-T3: 0=Firmware initialization started (PCI ID 0060/1000/1f0a/1028)
T3: EVT#36654-T3: 1=Firmware version 1.22.52-1909
T3: EepromInit: Family=33, SN=909344030000
T3: Delaying POST by 20 seconds...

 

Also, the following are errors during startup only but never under normal operation:

10/03/17 9:31:23: EVT#36764-10/03/17 9:31:23: 113=Unexpected sense: Encl PD 11 Path 50026b92614ff40c, CDB: 1c 01 a0 00 04 00, Sense: 5/35/01 

10/03/17 9:31:23: Raw Sense for PD 11: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 35 01 00 00 00 00
10/03/17 9:31:24: EVT#36765-10/03/17 9:31:24: 113=Unexpected sense: Encl PD 11 Path 50026b92614ff40c, CDB: 1c 01 a0 00 04 00, Sense: 5/35/01
10/03/17 9:31:24: Raw Sense for PD 11: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 35 01 00 00 00 00
10/03/17 9:31:24: EVT#36766-10/03/17 9:31:24: 113=Unexpected sense: Encl PD 21 Path 5001c232c961390c, CDB: 1c 01 a0 00 04 00, Sense: 5/35/01
10/03/17 9:31:24: Raw Sense for PD 21: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 35 01 00 00 00 00
10/03/17 9:31:25: EVT#36767-10/03/17 9:31:25: 113=Unexpected sense: Encl PD 21 Path 5001c232c961390c, CDB: 1c 01 a0 00 04 00, Sense: 5/35/01
10/03/17 9:31:25: Raw Sense for PD 21: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 35 01 00 00 00 00


I am a newbie so I am unable to interpret the root cause.  Can someone please help me pinpoint a possible solution?

Thank you,

 

-sul.

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Upgrading HDD space Dell R320 with H310 RAID5

October 3, 2017, 9:22 am
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Hello all,

I've read some conflicting info online about whether or not I can do this without reinstalling.

I have a R320 with 4 x 1TB HDD's in RAID5 that have 3 virtual disks as follows:

0 - 97.3GB
1 - 976GB
2 - 976GB

I would like to know if I can replace the 1TB HDD's one by one and then, once done and they have rebuilt, will I be able to resize the virtual disks to larger sizes without deleting the content?

I'm specifically interested in making the 0 virtual disk bigger and reducing the 1 and 2 virtual disks.

Is this possible without data loss, or will it be easier for me to rebuild?

If yes, what would be the best steps to carry this out?

Thank you in advance.

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Help! Raid 6 files corrupted after a three drives lose power (Perc 6i)

October 3, 2017, 6:43 pm
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I was working my machine adding an unrelated ssd drive for the OS (not on the raid array) with a RAID 6 array (Prec 6i card is used for this), while doing this the power connector became dislodged from one of the back-planes. It was not dislodged enough for me to notice, at the time but upon restart I saw the RAID array was listed as failed, and three drives were not detected. I shutdown the computer, inserted the connector fully, that fixed the power issue. on restart the drives showed up as bad/unconfigured. I added them back into the array, the RAID manager reports the array as being fine, all my files show up, but I cannot access them. If I try to I will get an error that the file is missing, or that I do not have access to that file when I click on it. *no drives ever actually failed*

 I have attempted running a patrol read and consistency check which ran with no errors, but I still cannot access any files. Is there anything I can do in order to regain access to the files on the array?

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Help! Raid 6 files corrupted after a three drives lose power (perc 6i)

October 3, 2017, 7:42 pm
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I was working on a Server with a RAID 6 array (Dell Prec 6i card, Megaraid storage manager Server 2012 R2), while doing this the power connector became dislodged from one of the back-planes. It was not dislodged enough for me to notice, at the time but upon restart I saw the RAID array was listed as failed, and three drives were not detected. I shutdown the computer, inserted the connector fully, that fixed the power issue, and added the drives back to the array. The drives showed up as bad/unconfigured. I added them back into the array, the RAID manager reports the array as being fine, all my files show up, but I cannot access them. If I try to I will get an error that the file is missing, or that I do not have access to that file when I click on it. *no drives ever actually failed*

 I have attempted running a patrol read and a consistency check which ran with no errors, but I still cannot access any files. Is there any utility I can run or any way to restore the files on the array? I am not sure why this won're restore considering the disks are still in the same order and nothing ever failed.

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Harddisk shows fault on poweredge R610 server when it runs in another R610 server

October 4, 2017, 3:34 am
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Hi,

I have a Poweredge R610 server at a remote location and another at the datacentre that I work at.

Recently the idrac logs showed fault detected on drive 5 on the server at remote location , the drive is in raid 5. On checking with dell we found that the harddrive could be faulty and ordered for a new hard drive. We formatted and checked the drive in another R610 server and found it to be working. 

After sending it to the remote site, the drive shows faulty in the  server.  

Could this be the fault of the drive of the server @ remote location or is there any other way to make the harddisk available to the server.

Regards,

Anup

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Dell R710/ PERC H700 drive compatability list

October 4, 2017, 7:57 am
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I just bought three refurbished HGST enterprise drives and it appears that they are not compatible with my R710 or raid card. Is there a list of drives that are compatible with the r710 and h700?

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R420 won't boot to OS

October 4, 2017, 1:49 pm
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I have a brand new build on an older R420 where I have two SSD's in RAID1 with the OS and two SATA drives in RAID1 for my data.  I was able to successfully install the OS (Windows 2016 Std) using the Lifecycle OS Deploy option, however with each subsequent boot, it hangs on the NetXtreme Ethernet Boot Agent and then goes directly to the UEFI Boot Manager without looking for the boot drive.  Once I get into the UEFI Boot Manager, I can click on "Continue Normal Boot" and it goes to the OS fine.  Any clue why this is doing this? 

I have upgraded to the latest firmware (2.4.2) and have set everything in the BIOS to look exclusively to the Integrated RAID controller EFI Fixed Disk Boot Device.  I have tried switching from UEFI to BIOS Boot Mode without any success either.

Any help you can provide will be most appreciated in getting this thing to boot properly.

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Raid Controller

October 5, 2017, 4:56 am
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Hi Good day!

I would like to ask question about Raid controllers in Poweredege series R630,R730,R720,R930.

Is higher firmware version of raidcontroller incompatible to lower server firmware version/raidcontroller firmware version when replacing parts?

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R720 failed and removed HDD shown as "Spun Up"

October 6, 2017, 7:10 am
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We had a drive fail in an R720, and when we went to replace it, it didn't attempt to rebuild the new drive. We removed the new drive and left the slot open, and Server Administrator shows the slot as being "Spun Up" with a state of "Failed", even though there isn't a drive installed. I'm hoping a reboot will sync the controller back up, so is there any danger to rebooting the server with one drive missing?

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R710 Raid not recognizing any of the drives.

October 6, 2017, 7:33 am
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When booting the machine it shows 0 virtual drives no activity LED indication lights from the drives until a few minutes that all of them begin blinking ambar and the LCD screen shows all of the in fault, I go to the Perc Bios and it  show 0 physical drives. I removed all the drives and installed a new drive on the first bay and still does not recognize it.  I checked for any loose cabling and or card and could not find anything visible.

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MD1000 Failed Drive

October 8, 2017, 1:36 pm
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We have an old MD1000 array we have been using for some backups.
15 drives x 2TB.
A drive has just failed and it is an original Dell (Seagate) ST2000NM0001.
Going to take a week to get a new one in so I am wondering if a new Seagate Enterprise ST2000NM0055 or similar, would be ok to use?
We can get these in much quicker.
I know I can mix SAS and SATA but do I need to swap in an identical drive. Cannot afford to lose data.

Jeremy

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