PE2950 & SAS5/i Stability & Upgrade Query
HiWe've currently got 2 PE2950 Servers with SAS5/i cars fitted, which we're having a few issues with. Under high I/O tasks (specifically writing) they keep dropping discs from the controller, listing...
View ArticleHow do I setup RAID 1 on perc 5/i
I have an old PE1950 that I am re-purposing. It has a perc 5/i and one 500GB WD Black. I am done building the OS, configuring the app and now I want to add a second drive to mirror the OS. I am using...
View ArticleR710 with PERC6i and RAID-5 Failed Disk, Need to find compatible replacement...
In my PER710, there are 6 3.5 in. SATA ST3500320NS (a Seagate) 500GB hot swappable drives installed with drives 0 through 4 in a RAID-5 set and drive 5 configured as a hot spare. Drive 1 has failed and...
View ArticlePERC H700 HDD compatibility list
HiI have number of R810 servers that have PERC H700 RAID controller on it.currently controller have 6x300GB SAS (2.5" 10K) HDD on it.is it possible to replace all the 6 HDDs with 900GB SAS (2.5" 10K)...
View Articlepoweredge T310 harddrive upgred for RAID 5
Hi,I have the poweredge t310coming with 1 X 500gb hard drive model: WD5003ABYX-18WERA0mfg by western digital for dell with dell lableI want to use the raid 5 so I need to get another two hard drive.1)...
View ArticlePERC 4e/Di driver
I'm looking for a Windows 8 driver for a PowerEdge 2850, that has a PERC 4e/Di MegaRAID controller. (a LSI Logic OEM product)It run's fine, and is used with RH currently. Trying to set-up a...
View ArticleHigh I/O
Have been experiencing random periods of high disk IO & poor performance. Logs show the following Storage Service events happening during the same time...Feb 9 02:54:53 Server Administrator:...
View ArticleRAID controller options for Poweredge 1800
Hi all,I'm a newbie here. I've tried researching this on the web, but have not come up with any solid solutions to this point.I recently acquired a PE 1800 with the Cerc 1.5/6channel SATA raid...
View ArticleNew HDD not being recognized by SAS controller on PowerEdge T410
One of the drives failed on my RAID 1 setup, so I bought a non-certified dell drive, Seagate Barracuda 500gb (the other drives were 250gb).I powered off the machine and swapped the failed drive with...
View ArticleDell 2850 + Maxtor 146GB
Hello,May I ask You for help. I have problem with PE2850 and Maxtor hard drivers. After insterting HDD, two new disks are blinking - amber 4 times very slow.I read in manual 4 times blinking means -...
View ArticlePowerEdge r710 failed drive will not rebuild
We have a PowerEdge r710 that is showing a drive as being offline. I have replaced the drive and its starts to rebuild then stops. I have tried 2 different new drives and still no success. The...
View ArticleHBA/Direct acces/IT-firmaware/JBOD/Plain, simple AHCI for T310
Hi,As the Perc &i doesn't support JBOD or direct disk access (Which was quite a shock to me, being more used to "homebuilt" than store bought servers) I need a new card for my t310. While I did get...
View ArticleShrink/Resize raid 5 array on perc 5/i
We have a PE2900 that has 7 disks. Disks 0 and 1 make up a raid 1 array which holds the os. Disks 2-6 make up a raid 5 array which just holds data. Is it possible to remove disks 5 and 6 from the raid...
View ArticleCreate 1 large or 2 smaller virtual disks?
I have a Dell R420 with a PERC H310 RAID controller. This controller allows me to create either one Virtual disk using all of the available space in the RAID 5 array or it allows you to build two...
View ArticlePERC 4e/DI and Unexpected sense. SCSI sense data: Sense key: 3 Sense code: 11
Have a new client with a PE 2800 server that's throwing the errors below on a RAID 1 array, Server Administrator error 2095. It's out of warranty so I'm looking to fix/proceed this in the safest...
View ArticleSSD RAID
Hi,I have a few r720 with H710P and want to use SSD in raid 10. Are there any compability issue with SSDs? Which one should I chose? I want to use only 4 SSD with raid10 on each server. Servers will...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 2950 - Firmware and Driver versions are out of date.
Hi,I am user of PowerEdge 2950 Server with Win2008 sp1.OMSA is showing an error "Firmware Version 6.1.1-0047 Minimum Required Firmware Version 6.3.0-0001 Driver Version 2.13.00.64 Minimum Required...
View ArticleRebuild Possible in PERC S100 S300 w/o Open Manage?
We have a T110 running RAID5 with 3 drives. For whatever reason, one of the drives died and I am running a degraded array. The HUGE problem I have, after speaking with elevated tech support, is that...
View ArticleSwitch to 3.5in bays in 2950?
I'm looking into purchasing a Poweredge 2950 off of Dell Auction, and it turns out that the machines they sell all have 2.5in bays for HDDs rather than 3.5in which is what i'm looking for. Does anyone...
View ArticlePERC H700 failed drive or controller?
Hi Everyone,After successfully completing SUU 7.1.1 and A42 HDD firmware updates on my server estate on Tuesday I came back to a dead drive according to OMSA the next day. RAID-5, H700 controller, 6x...
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