I added a 4th drive to my R510 server Raid5 array, use Open manager to reconstruct array, this worked. I now have 278 gb of unallocated space on the array. 

The system already has 4 partitions, OEM, Recovery, C: OS, and D: data  on a Basic drive. 

I cannot extend the d: drive into the unallocated space. I do have the option of changing the disk to a Dynamic disk will this cause problems?

I want to ideally extend both the c drive as well as the d drive into the new drive space but was hoping to avoid rebuilding the entire array, any suggestions?

I have just bought a single socket T320 server with 2 - 1 Tb 7200 rpm hard drives and I want to add another 4 - 1 Tb 7200 rpm. My server is currently configured with a raid 1 and when I  add the 4 new hard drives I want to switch to a raid 10 without having to re-install windows or loss of my partitions or data.  I was wondering how I would go about doing this?

I've read a lot on these forums in the past few years, now I have a question of my own that has been a problem for me. I have a pair of PE 2850s that act as file servers that I am not ready to part with yet. They have a split backplane 2+4, on the standard PERC 4di. One of the servers tells me that the 146gb in bay 3 has become a problem. Replace and rebuild. Still a problem with #3. Replace and rebuild again. Still a problem. 

So last night I swap out the whole backplane to a known good one, yet keep the daughter card for the split backplane. Still a problem with drive 3 according to OMSA. It won't even rebuild. 

What else could it be? I doubt the PERC, and I don't want to chance data loss. 

Brad

My SAS controller went bad on my lab computer. I have two sas drives that were not in a raid that have some important data ((I know....). I attached the drives to an old server in the shop but I can't import the config or or the disks. Is it safe to clear the foreign config and try to import the disks or will I lose my data? Do I have any other good options?

hello!

my poweredge 2850 server restart by itself and displays a message about replace battery/memory of RAID controller.

I changed battery and memory of RAID controller but it have not solved my problem.

What can I do for fix this problem. please help me.

My existing server (Poweredge 1800) is due replacement.  I have an existing PowerVault LTO4-120HH that is working fine (and has all my backups).  I wish to purchase a new T320 with a PERC H200 controller.  Will this configuration allow my to remove the PowerVault from the old 1800 and connect it to the T320?  (Fully understanding I need to reinstall backup software, etc).  Can I make this change without needing to purchase additional HBA SAS card?  TIA

I keep getting these errors when performing diagnostic on DELL PE2850.

Data Bus Stress test

Scan system event log for existing memory entries

Existing entry 06/05/2013 11:37:55 Correctible ECC errors

Bank 1 Dimm B.

Existing entry 06/05/2013 11:37:55 Correctible ECC errors

Bank 1 Dimm B.

Existing entry 06/05/2013 11:37:55 Correctible ECC errors

Bank 1 Dimm B.

Single bit error logging is disabled.

test failed.

Hi All,

I have PowerEdge 2900 which hosts MS 2k8 R2 with DPM 2010 as non-virtual OS.

I recently acquired (we are non-profit, charity) few FireStream licenses which allow me to use external HDDs as target medium for long term backup in DPM2010 normally reserved for tapes only.

I was thinking about getting USB 3.0 expansion card and connecting to it USB to SATA docking station and using internal HDDs as "tapes" for DPM 2010 long term storage plan rotating them weekly. 

Now my question is will 3tb or bigger HDDs work in this scenario - I would never need to boot from it but not sure how 2900 will handle 2tb drives connected via USB 3.0 - will it allow me to format them as on 3tb GPT partition and will it work with DPM 2010 own file system...

Thank you for all the help.

1. where do i buy it, and what exact model battery is it.. link please if you have :)

2. How do i replace it? a guide for how to do it.
Must one power down server? Or can one replace it while server is running?

3. If i replace it, do i loose my config, raid setup and other stuff, like if you take bios battery our, you loose all config.. ??

Thanks, hoping some one will help me out here, its my first time changing battery..

Hi All,

So here is my scenario, I current have a T320 power edge tower with 8-3.5 hot swap bays with 2 bays with 1 Tb hard drives configured in a Raid 1 configuration. What I want to do is add 4 - 1 Tb hard drive to my server and reconfigure to a raid 10. So now I still have 2 empty drive bays that I will be expending to at some time in the near future. So I have a couple of questions as this is my first server. Would like to set this up the right way so that when I add those last 2 hard drive that I don't have to Back up, Wipe, Reconfigure, Re-install as it was explained to me. So here are my questions:

1. Can I configure my Raid 10 at this point with 4 - 1 Tb drives with 2 hot spare drives with and eye on the future to add 2 additional 1 Tb drives to the raid 10 for a total of 3 sets of raid 10 drives with 2 hot spares waiting in the wings for failover?

2. If I configure my server in this fashion will I be able to just add the 2 additional drives later without any reconfiguration or loss of data?

3. if I can't use raid 10 in this fashion what raid can I use instead?

4.In the future will I be able to swap my 1 Tb drives for larger Tb drives in order to increase on overall storage capacity without reconfiguration or loss of data?

5. I have been wrestling with how to have a external back up system.The 1 major stumbling block I keep coming across is that by my calculation I'll end up with about 12 Tb's of storage if I use 4 Tb capacity hard drives, So how and what do you back that amount data up on externally and keep off premise?

Any help that can be offer in this matter would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

Can someone please interpret this OMSA log? I'm having some performance issues:

Controller event log: Unexpected sense: PD 0a(e1/s255), CDB: 1c 01 a0 00 04 00, Sense: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00: Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated)

Hi. I have some questions about Dell PERC H710P.

I have a Dell PERC H710P RAID controller and 8 Samsung SSD 840 Pros.

I created virtual drive on 8x256GB Samsung SSD 840 Pro in RAID10.

And tried DD test (bs=512kb, count=20000) in CentOS 6.3.

But I had just around 370MB/sec.

Is there any problem of my test?

Please reply.

Thanks.

I have a PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC 6/I controller that had 4 73 GB SAS drives set up as a RAID-5 for a C: partition.  I first replaced each of the 73 GB drives one at a time with a 146 GB SAS drive, and allowed the RAID-5 to reconstruct for each drive before replacing the next one.  Once I replaced all 4 drives I added two more 146 GB SAS drives for a total of 6 146 GB SAS drives.  After initialization, I extended the C: partition to maximize the new unallocated space.  My resultant capacity is 406 GB NTFS, which would be correct if I simply added two more 73 GB to the array.  What do I need to do to fully utilize the available drive space?  I am using the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager.  I can of course use the PERC 6/I utility during bootup if necessary.

We have a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 2950s, they came with an integrated Perc5i SAS RAID controller.

Unfortunately the Perc5i does a kind of fake raid 10 (a span of mirrors rather than a stripe of mirrors) so we've had to get some proper raid cards instead.

So now the onboard perc5i is disconnected from the backplane and disabled in the bios, and we have our new raid cards installed and connected to the backplane - all is well and they work good.

However when booting the machines the bios pauses and we get an error message saying the following:

" SAS B Cable Missing/. Misconfigured.

Power down the system and connect correctly. Details for storage cabling can be found on the system information label and the Hardware Ownders Manual.

Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility"

How can we stop this message? It's obviously totally wrong; our new SAS cards are connected to the backplane and working fine. I see nowhere to disable this message in the bios or BMC management utility 5.

Bios version is 2.2.6 (latest)

BMC firmware is 1.97 (latest)

Backplane firmware is 1.05 (latest)

Please help!

I have a PowerEdge R510 with a PERC 6/I controller that had 4 300 GB SAS drives set up as a RAID-10. One disk was failed, so I bought a new one HITACHI HUS156030VLS600 ( 300 Gb )  however the RAID did not start rebuild process and I notice that BIOS/OpenManage just  dont see  it as a physical disk,  it shows only three physical disks.

Tech specification:

Controller: PERC 6/i Integrated,

Controller Firmware Version: 6.3.3.0002

BIOS: 1.6.3

Please advise what next need to be checked?

Read through this thread:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/p/19471857/20339141.aspx

We ordered PERC H710P mini customer kit (342-3536 - PCVT5) and 2x 800GB Solid State Drive SATA Value MLC 3Gbps 2.5in (342-5821) for our R620 (which only had the S110 embedded controller previously). Can anyone help me identify the part number for the cable needed? Been searching around to no avail.

I have an upcoming situation and any suggestions/advice would be appreciated...

I have an R710 with 6 x 3.5in drives chassis and populated 6 SAS drives (2 x 136GB and 4 x 300GB)
The server was badly specified prior to purchasing and was therefore purchased with a SAS 6/ir controller

The server is an Exchange box. 
OS is on C: which is a RAID-1 using the 2 x 136GB SAS drives
Data in on D: which is a RAID-1 using 2 of the 300GB drives
The other 2 drives are sat doing nothing as the SAS 6/ir can only support 2 virtual disks and only RAID-0 or RAID-1

The problem is the data volume is getting close to capacity and I really need to utilise the spare drives.
Having considered several options, it appears to me that the only viable solution is to get a PERC H700 and import the foreign VDs but I have read that importing a SAS 6/ir VD containing a Windows OS into a PERC H700 is not possible/supported.
I believe importing the data volume would be ok and then I could use RAID level migration and online capacity expansion to add the spare drives and convert from RAID-1 to RAID-5, all with minimal downtime.

So if importing an OS disk is a non-starter, is a server rebuild the only option or I am missing something? 
For example, can I run a SAS 6/ir alongside a H700 leaving the OS on the SAS 6/ir and letting the H700 handle the data?  If so, how does that work in terms of installing the additional card in the risers and cabling to the enclosures?!?

As I said, any help would be much appreciated.

thanks in advance,
Andy

Hallo,

i recently bought an used DELL PERC H710p but i cant update the firmware nor install the driver. I always get an error like:
"No supported controllers present or detected"

First i thought it's because the PERC H710p is not supported on an DELL R710 Server. But after some research i found something odd.

The reason why the firmware update fails is simply the fact, that the "SUBDEV=1f38" required during the update can't be fond. My "H710p" has a different SUBDEV. Its SUBDEV is 1f77. So my question is, did i bought some "fake" controller ?

If its not a "fake" controller, what must i do to update my H710p and how do i install the drivers ?

Thank You

Here the log from Megafl:

Adapter #0

==============================================================================
                    Versions
                ================
Product Name    : PERC H710P Adapter
Serial No       : xxxxx - Im not sure if its save to post a sn on the internet. But if a DELL employ need it to verify the controller, please send me an pm.
FW Package Build: 21.0.2-0002

                    Mfg. Data
                ================
Mfg. Date       : 04/01/13
Rework Date     : 04/01/13
Revision No     : A00
Battery FRU     : N/A

                Image Versions in Flash:
                ================
BIOS Version       : 5.30.00_4.12.05.00_0x05110000
Ctrl-R Version     : 4.00-0014
Preboot CLI Version: 05.00-03:#%00008
FW Version         : 3.130.05-1587
NVDATA Version     : 2.1108.03-0093
Boot Block Version : 2.03.00.00-0003
BOOT Version       : 06.253.57.219

                Pending Images in Flash
                ================
None

                PCI Info
                ================
Vendor Id       : 1000
Device Id       : 005b
SubVendorId     : 1028
SubDeviceId     : 1f77

Host Interface  : PCIE

Number of Frontend Port: 0
Device Interface  : PCIE

Number of Backend Port: 8
Port  :  Address
0        4433221102000000
1        4433221103000000
2        0000000000000000
3        0000000000000000
4        0000000000000000
5        0000000000000000
6        0000000000000000
7        0000000000000000

                HW Configuration
                ================
SAS Address      : 590b11c04b521300
BBU              : Present
Alarm            : Absent
NVRAM            : Present
Serial Debugger  : Present
Memory           : Present
Flash            : Present
Memory Size      : 1024MB
TPM              : Absent
On board Expander: Absent
Upgrade Key      : Absent
Temperature sensor for ROC    : Present
Temperature sensor for controller    : Present

ROC temperature : 57  degree Celcius
Controller temperature : 57  degree Celcius

                Settings
                ================
Current Time                     : 20:28:33 9/4, 2013
Predictive Fail Poll Interval    : 300sec
Interrupt Throttle Active Count  : 16
Interrupt Throttle Completion    : 50us
Rebuild Rate                     : 30%
PR Rate                          : 30%
BGI Rate                         : 30%
Check Consistency Rate           : 30%
Reconstruction Rate              : 30%
Cache Flush Interval             : 4s
Max Drives to Spinup at One Time : 4
Delay Among Spinup Groups        : 12s
Physical Drive Coercion Mode     : 128MB
Cluster Mode                     : Disabled
Alarm                            : Disabled
Auto Rebuild                     : Enabled
Battery Warning                  : Enabled
Ecc Bucket Size                  : 15
Ecc Bucket Leak Rate             : 1440 Minutes
Restore HotSpare on Insertion    : Disabled
Expose Enclosure Devices         : Disabled
Maintain PD Fail History         : Disabled
Host Request Reordering          : Enabled
Auto Detect BackPlane Enabled    : SGPIO/i2c SEP
Load Balance Mode                : Auto
Use FDE Only                     : Yes
Security Key Assigned            : No
Security Key Failed              : No
Security Key Not Backedup        : No
Default LD PowerSave Policy      : Controller Defined
Maximum number of direct attached drives to spin up in 1 min : 20
Any Offline VD Cache Preserved   : No
Allow Boot with Preserved Cache  : No
Disable Online Controller Reset  : No
PFK in NVRAM                     : No
Use disk activity for locate     : No

                Capabilities
                ================
RAID Level Supported             : RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID00, RAID10, RAID50, RAID60, PRL 11, PRL 11 with spanning, PRL11-RLQ0 DDF layout with no span, PRL11-RLQ0 DDF layout with span
Supported Drives                 : SAS, SATA

Allowed Mixing:

Mix in Enclosure Allowed

                Status
                ================
ECC Bucket Count                 : 0

                Limitations
                ================
Max Arms Per VD          : 32
Max Spans Per VD         : 8
Max Arrays               : 128
Max Number of VDs        : 64
Max Parallel Commands    : 1008
Max SGE Count            : 60
Max Data Transfer Size   : 8192 sectors
Max Strips PerIO         : 42
Min Strip Size           : 64 KB
Max Strip Size           : 1.0 MB
Max Configurable CacheCade Size: 512 GB
Current Size of CacheCade      : 0 GB
Current Size of FW Cache       : 887 MB

                Device Present
                ================
Virtual Drives    : 1
  Degraded        : 0
  Offline         : 0
Physical Devices  : 2
  Disks           : 2
  Critical Disks  : 0
  Failed Disks    : 0

                Supported Adapter Operations
                ================
Rebuild Rate                    : Yes
CC Rate                         : Yes
BGI Rate                        : Yes
Reconstruct Rate                : Yes
Patrol Read Rate                : Yes
Alarm Control                   : Yes
Cluster Support                 : No
BBU                             : No
Spanning                        : Yes
Dedicated Hot Spare             : Yes
Revertible Hot Spares           : Yes
Foreign Config Import           : Yes
Self Diagnostic                 : Yes
Allow Mixed Redundancy on Array : No
Global Hot Spares               : Yes
Deny SCSI Passthrough           : No
Deny SMP Passthrough            : No
Deny STP Passthrough            : No
Support Security                : Yes
Snapshot Enabled                : No
Support the OCE without adding drives : Yes
Support PFK                     : No

                Supported VD Operations
                ================
Read Policy          : Yes
Write Policy         : Yes
IO Policy            : Yes
Access Policy        : Yes
Disk Cache Policy    : Yes
Reconstruction       : Yes
Deny Locate          : No
Deny CC              : No
Allow Ctrl Encryption: No
Enable LDBBM         : Yes
Support Breakmirror  : Yes
Power Savings        : Yes

                Supported PD Operations
                ================
Force Online                            : Yes
Force Offline                           : Yes
Force Rebuild                           : Yes
Deny Force Failed                       : No
Deny Force Good/Bad                     : No
Deny Missing Replace                    : No
Deny Clear                              : Yes
Deny Locate                             : No
Support Temperature                     : Yes
Disable Copyback                        : No
Enable JBOD                             : No
Enable Copyback on SMART                : No
Enable Copyback to SSD on SMART Error   : No
Enable SSD Patrol Read                  : No
PR Correct Unconfigured Areas           : Yes
Enable Spin Down of UnConfigured Drives : No
Disable Spin Down of hot spares         : Yes
Spin Down time                          : 30
T10 Power State                         : Yes
                Error Counters
                ================
Memory Correctable Errors   : 0
Memory Uncorrectable Errors : 0

                Cluster Information
                ================
Cluster Permitted     : No
Cluster Active        : No

                Default Settings
                ================
Phy Polarity                     : 0
Phy PolaritySplit                : 0
Background Rate                  : 30
Strip Size                       : 64kB
Flush Time                       : 4 seconds
Write Policy                     : WB
Read Policy                      : Adaptive
Cache When BBU Bad               : Disabled
Cached IO                        : No
SMART Mode                       : Mode 6
Alarm Disable                    : No
Coercion Mode                    : 128MB
ZCR Config                       : Unknown
Dirty LED Shows Drive Activity   : No
BIOS Continue on Error           : No
Spin Down Mode                   : None
Allowed Device Type              : SAS/SATA Mix
Allow Mix in Enclosure           : Yes
Allow HDD SAS/SATA Mix in VD     : No
Allow SSD SAS/SATA Mix in VD     : No
Allow HDD/SSD Mix in VD          : No
Allow SATA in Cluster            : No
Max Chained Enclosures           : 4
Disable Ctrl-R                   : No
Enable Web BIOS                  : No
Direct PD Mapping                : Yes
BIOS Enumerate VDs               : Yes
Restore Hot Spare on Insertion   : No
Expose Enclosure Devices         : No
Maintain PD Fail History         : No
Disable Puncturing               : No
Zero Based Enclosure Enumeration : Yes
PreBoot CLI Enabled              : No
LED Show Drive Activity          : Yes
Cluster Disable                  : Yes
SAS Disable                      : No
Auto Detect BackPlane Enable     : SGPIO/i2c SEP
Use FDE Only                     : Yes
Enable Led Header                : No
Delay during POST                : 0
EnableCrashDump                  : No
Disable Online Controller Reset  : No
EnableLDBBM                      : Yes
Un-Certified Hard Disk Drives    : Allow
Treat Single span R1E as R10     : Yes
Max LD per array                 : 16
Power Saving option              : Don't spin down unconfigured drives
Don't spin down Hot spares
Don't Auto spin down Configured Drives
Power settings apply to all drives - individual PD/LD power settings cannot be set
Max power savings option is  not allowed for LDs. Only T10 power conditions are to be used.
Cached writes are not used for spun down VDs
Can schedule disable power savings at controller level
Default spin down time in minutes: 30
Enable JBOD                     : No
TTY Log In Flash                 : No
Auto Enhanced Import             : No
BreakMirror RAID Support         : Yes
Disable Join Mirror              : Yes
Time taken to detect CME         : 60s

Exit Code: 0x00

I have 4x2TB drives in a Raid 5.  The below screenshot shows failure even though all 4 drives appear to be online.  I was able to run the system utility to run a short self test on each of the 4 drives and all passed.  They also passed the SMART test.

I'm not sure why there is a non-RAID virtual drive since I don't have any additional drives.  And, when selected, there is no physical drive assigned to it.

Does anyone know what might have happened and how to recover from this?  My system won't boot at this time.  It should be booting to a Windows Home Server 2011 (Windows 2008R2 equivalent) and there should be 2 partitions.  A small 60GB boot volume and a 5.4TB share volume.

Thanks for any help on this.  I need to recover pictures from the share volume and may need to send to a data recovery service if I can not fix this myself.

Note: I tried to boot after removing disconnecting each drive individually it did nothing other than to show the disconnected drive missing from the physical drive list.

Here is a link to view the screenshot in BIOS for RAID:

http://sdrv.ms/15DU6UL

UPDATED screenshots of physical disks:

Physical disk 0: http://sdrv.ms/18DJU02

Physical disk 1: http://sdrv.ms/18DJZB1

Physical disk 2: http://sdrv.ms/18DK5sp

Physical disk 3: http://sdrv.ms/17uToJR