Perc 5/I integrated
I have a perc 5/i in a poweredge server configured for raid 5. I have removed the original disks in the array and replaced with fresh disks. now I want to put the original disk back in the array but I...
View ArticleSAS Drive replacement
I have a Dell poweredge T610 with SAS Drive controller and SAS Drives. I would like to change to Solid State Drives. will I need to change the controller or can I just install the SSD Drives. any...
View Articleneed SAS 6/iR driver for R410 and Windows 2008 R2
I had a server lose power (UPS failure during storm) and refuse to boot, but the included Dell Windows 2008 R2 install media does not appear to include the driver for the SAS 6/iR card that came with...
View ArticleAny experience with buying refurbished servers? Or a total solution including...
One of our new IT guys is pushing us to try a local (Houston based) company for some upgrades, and potentially buy some refurbished servers as well. The company will also buy our old equipment and...
View ArticleHard drive missing from RAID-10 array, cannot be re-added
For some unknown reason, a RAID-10 array on a PERC H710P Mini (installed in a PowerEdge R720) has dropped a hard drive, and I cannot re-add it... OMSA is showing that the array is degraded, and so when...
View ArticleLost a HDD in PREC 5i RAID 1 - now won't boot
Hello Everyone, I have an old Poweredge 1900. It has 2 RAID 1 mirrors on the PERC 5i. The primary RAID is 2 2 Tb drives, and the other is 2 250 Gb drives. One of the 2 Tb drives failed. I got a...
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PowerEdge R730XD “CBL0009: Backplane 1 connector A0 is not connected”
Currently we receive a PowerEdge R730XD with no OS. While preparing the installation of Windows Server 2012, a window pop up showing below.If Im going to install the OS bypassing this by pressing F1,...
View ArticlePoweredge 2950 Gen 3
Hello, I am purchasing my first dell server, and it's a poweredge 2950 gen 3. It's purpose is to replace my current overpowered desktop machine that is acting as a server. After reading, I have come to...
View ArticleR410 Multiple drive failures in short period of time
HiOur symptoms sound a bit like this thread We're using SATA drives on a cabled system, not hot swap and we started seeing errors on a drive 3 weeks ago. That drive was 2 years old but then a much...
View ArticleR515 with h200 raid 1
Trying to add a second array with 3Tb dell drives. System will not see drives
View ArticleDisk failures with no warning from the Dell SAS 6/iR RAID card
We have a PowerEdge T105 server, equipped until recently with a Dell SAS 6/iR adapter card in RAID 1. The OS is Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard.We recently had two outages caused by hard disk failure....
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Expand Raid5 on R320 with H710
Hey there - I have an new R320 with 4x300GB SAS 10k in one Raid5 virtual drive.Now i have added 2 more disks with the same size and speed and want to expand the virtual drive with this 2 disks but...
View Article2850 w/ PERC 4 - How do I properly terminate the SCSI drives?
We have a legacy PowerEdge 2850 with what appears to be a two-channel PERC in it.The boot drives for this ESXi host are in slots 0 and 1 and work great. However, we had a failure on a pair of 143Gb...
View ArticleMPT BIOS MPT BIOS Fault 0Dh encountered at adapter PCI(03h,08h,00h) on Dell...
Yesterday, I have gone to bed, and by the time I woke up (today), my server got locked up. I had to pull out the power in order to reboot it, but uppon rebooting, I got an error thrown on the...
View ArticleAmber flashing drive, shows good in OMSA R720xd
I'm having a problem with one of my R720XD's. The 2nd array on the server is a RAID 1, and when I came in this morning one of the drives was flashing amber. When I opened OpenManage on the server...
View ArticlePOWER EDGE R310 - Changing HD
Hi,My Power Edge server is more than 3 years old. Even though it has worked perfectly so far, I am concerned that the hard drives might be approaching their end of life (in my experience they tend to...
View ArticleH710P: Raid level migration
Hi to allI would like to move from RAID-1 to RAID-6 by adding two disk to an existent virtual disk.Is this operation safe? During the raid level migration, data redundancy is lost or mantained ?Any...
View ArticleHelp - PowerEdge 2600 - 6 36G SCSI Drives
Help me if you canI have a Del 2600"C" drive is a mirror Disk0 and Disk1 - this is working fine so far"D" drive is a RAID 5 consisting of DISK2 DISK3 and DISK4Hot Spare - DISK5I booted up the system...
View Articlepoweredge r510
I did a hot swap of my drives that were in non-critical state. Once I changed them out the drives just say failed. Not sure what will fix this issue and I am unaware if the rebuild actually happened....
View ArticleCreate RAID 1 AND RAID 5 arrays on PowerEdge T330
Hi,Is there a way to create a RAID5 set along with a pre-existing RAID1 from OMSA? I'm not seeing anything that would allow me to do that. I have 3 2TB drives, doing nothing, but are not available for...
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