Poweredge R610 Assigning Hot Spare
Hi,I had a poweredge r610 server with 3 disks in a raid 1 config (1 hot spare). I needed to do some critical server maintenance. I decided to use a raid disk as a backup and performed the following:1....
View ArticleHelp out a newbie (to hardware raid controllers) understand what I need to do...
I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 with PERC 6/i Integrated Raid Controller and I'm in over my head. I currently have 4 Seagate Barracuda 1.5T Drives installed, but the machine is only seeing one. I have...
View Articleupgrading prec card on R620
HiI bought a R620 with H310 .... just realised no cache, slowest piece of poooo i have :)so I want to upgrade to the H710P (I believe), which one do I order can I replace the H310 does it take up a...
View Article3TB drives on Server 2950
I have a dell server 2950 (second hand).it has two 70gb SAS drives that work perfectly.I bought two Seagate ST33000650SS (Constellation ES.2, 3TB, SAS 6Gb/s) drives.When plugged the amber light flashes...
View Articlehow to add ssd hardisk to server PowerEdge R710
hi ,my server is PowerEdge R710my hardisks is sata and i want to replace it with ssd hardiskswhat i need to do that ??regards
View ArticleHelp please, Poweredge 1800 cant detect a new HDD after failed HDD
Hi, I have a Poweredge 1800 server which was running Windows Server 2003, the HDD failed last week (only running 1 drive). I purchased 2 new drives, one Seagate, 1 WD, neither are being detected when I...
View ArticleHot-Swap on T410
Hi!I replaced the DVD drive that came with my T410 with this hdd bay:http://www.rosewill.com/products/1681/ProductDetail_Overview.htm (Rosewill RX-C525).Is there any configuration I need to change to...
View ArticleInternal tape adapter for 12G tower servers
HelloI'm looking for Internal tape adapter for T620 server w LTO5 TBU. This server is used as remote office filesrvr and I want them to able to backup their own files rather than backup them over the...
View ArticlePERC H710P low profile in a R720xd
It is possible to use the PCIe version of the H710P (DP/N 0D0JMF) in an R720xd? For some reason the manual for the R720xd says it is not supported. See page 64, table 4:...
View ArticleH710P maximum disk per RAID group
Hello,I am planning to buy a Dell R720XD with a H710P Raid controller. I am wondering what is the maximum disk per RAID group ?I did not found this information in the H710P User Guide.Many thanks !
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Can't add a physical disk back to the RAID1 array
We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 running with RAID1, two physical disks (I will call them PD0 and PD1 below).For testing purpose, we pulled PD1, boot up Windows with PD0 only, PASSED.Then we pulled PD0,...
View ArticlePerc 5/i Question?
I have a Dell PowerEdge 1900 with a perc 5/i controller. I have a issue and need to change one of the drives but the drive has not failed. Please dont laugh about the Raid its 5When I pull up the event...
View ArticleH710 controller and cable upgrade kit for R710
We'd like to upgrade our PowerEdge R710 from:341-9155 - SAS 6/iR Integrated, x6 Chassis224-4846 - Chassis for Up to Six 3.5-Inch Hard DrivesTo an H710 controller. Where can I find the part number for...
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3 errors after i performed hardware Del check , plz need help to solve them !!!
hi ,ive encolsed the errors messages during the test ,note that im using delr710 as squid cache server and here is the error links below :
View ArticlePE2850 - 146GB Drives
Hi, I have a PE2850 with working 36GB drives that I have had Windows 2008 Server, Windows 8 Pro (Currently) with no issues. I recently purchased 146GB drives and was trying to get them working. In...
View ArticlePerc H710P add to Disk Group?
I'm doing some experiments with configuration before setting up a production server, and I wonder if it is possible to add Physical Disks to an existing Disk Group with the intention of expanding an...
View Articlecreate NTFS partitions from NFS array
HiWe have PowerEdge 1950 server with HD extension PowerVault MD1000 (4.5 TB, RAID5) connecting via SCSI cables.We have installed ESX 4.0 on the PowerEdge 1950 and we need to add the storage (LUN).The...
View Articleh700 performance impact on multiple aray
Hello, i have r710 with 4xSAS in raid 10 array , i want to add another aray of 2XSAS raid 1.will the second array will decrease the performance of i/o of the first one after it start processing data?
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Dell R720 Backplane upgrade?
I have 2x Dell R720's that were supplied with the 8x 2.5' SATA/SAS Backplane.Is it possible to upgrade the servers to the 16x 2.5' SATA/SAS Backplane?
View ArticleHow to know physical slot of the hard drive 0:0:3 ?
Hello,From the dell management consol i know that the hard drive 0:0:3 must be replaced. but how to know in with physical slot this hard drive is ??here the representation of my front panel (poweredge...
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