PERC 5/i - RAID 5 - 3/4 drives foreign after power failure
My client's server had a power outage and it looks like the RAID was damaged. It is a RAID 5 array with 4 disks. The VD MGMT page reports 3/4 drives as missing, while the PD MGMT page shows the drives...
View ArticleRebuild hyper v core mirrored disk dell R610
Had one disk of a two disk mirror fail on a Dell R610. The server is running a hyper v core. Do I need to do anything more than plug in a new disk to have the mirror rebuild? How do I confirm the...
View ArticlePowerEdge R310 - Failed Hard Drive and BIOS/Firmware Update
Greetings ...I have a client with a PowerEdge R310 ... one of the drives in their Mirror (1TB SATA Hot Pluggable) has failed (rapid flashing amber light) and we need to swap out the drive with a new...
View ArticleUpgrading RAID 5 array with a larger hard disk because of running out of space
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2970 server with a PERC 6/i RAID controller that has 4 physical drives installed to Connector 0 (2 more drives are installed on connector 1).Originally each drive was 250GB in...
View ArticleCan RAID 1 Boot from both HDDs?
I have a Dell Poweredge T430 with a H330 PERC RAID Controller which I setup with RAID and in openmanage says it was all ok. I just wanted to double check before setting everything up it was working ok...
View ArticleReplacing a Degraded Disk on a Dell Poweredge T300 RAID 1
I am replacing a degraded disk on a Dell Poweredge T300 RAID 1, My Physical Disk 0:0:0 is showing a failed State, my question is can I pull that drive out while the computer is on? I do believe it is...
View ArticleDrive Missing
Gen 3 1950 with 4 drives on a PERC 6/i firmware 6.3.3. I discovered today that when the server boots, it has a drive degraded. So when i look in ctrlr-R, 3 drives are online and 1 is missing. A while...
View Articlereplacing 2 RAID 5 disks
Hi,I had 2 disks fail in a RAID 5 array, 6 disk set. I pulled the bad disks and put in the new ones, but the virtual disk now shows failed. Did I make a mistake by replacing both at once? How do I get...
View ArticleRAID Question
Hi everyone!I'm new to this RAID-world and I'm just wondering what will happen if suddenly the disk that has the OS and set as the default boot disk fails while in operation, would it automatically...
View ArticleHow do I properly configure an (R710 with H700 controller) running ESXi 6 to...
I have a few R710 with H700 controllers that I want to install SSD's into. I have tested a (Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB) in one of them and it appears to work great but I have a question about how...
View ArticlePowerEdge C2100 - 12 Drive bays on backplane, but SAS1/SAS2 not showing up on...
It's quite possible I am just doing it wrong, but I just assumed that if I plugged my SSDs into SAS 1 & 2 that I could start ramping up my system by RAIDing them and then add other drives. However,...
View ArticlePoweredge R630 - adding a SATA disk
Hello,we have a new Poweredge R630, which arrived with 4 x 300 GB SAS spinning disks in RAID 5. Everything is fine with them.We would however like to also use a SATA (SSD) drive (we have a far from...
View ArticleAdd a disk in a raid 5
I have a PowerEdge R510 with a data disk volume with 3 disks of 600GB RAID 5, controller PERC 6/iIt's possible to add another disk of 600GB to increase data space in volume without data deletion?Raid...
View ArticleR710 Single Disk with PERC 6/i
So, I have an R710 with ESXi 6.0 (for a lab) that I want to set up in the following way:1 disk is an SSD used for read only flash (used to be vFlash).5 2 TB HDD's in a raid 5.Is it possible to create a...
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perc h200 firmware 00.00.00.00
Hi all,I got a T110 II server with PERC H200 Raid. May someone give me hints on how to fix this? I cannot upgrade the firmware as the updater software reported the current firmware is version...
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Poweredge T110 II Hard Drive Partition Issue - Please HELP
Our small business purchased a server and got a RAID 1 configuration (2 1TB hard drives). The original server software was Windows Server 2008 R2. The original IT tech was not familiar with Windows...
View ArticlePERC 6/i Integrated Firmware Update
Hi, I am trying to resolve an issue where my PowerEdge 710 is giving me errors over and over again indicating that "The storage battery has failed", and then "the storage batter is operating normally"....
View ArticleVirtual disk 1 Degraded
I have a Dell server that has 6 disks in 3 Raid 1 arrays. One disk was replaced and came up as 'Foreign' so I followed the process to clear it and now it shows 'Ready'. I need to add it back into the...
View Articlenew disk for power edge 2850
Good moorning, I need a new disk for server Power Edge 2850 with service tag <ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed per privacy policy>the disk must to have 146 Gb and 10 K RPMThanks Ida
View ArticleDefunct Disks Everywhere!!
Gen 3 PE 1950 with 4 drives in RAID 5. This server also has a 6GBS HBA that attaches to a storage enclouse with 14 drives. We started having issues not being able to connect to the SQL DB's that reside...
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