Adding drives to PowerEdge T110 with S100 controller
I'm adding new drives to a PowerEdge T110 with a S100 controller. My two existing drives are in a RAID 1 configuration. Because I can't add the new drives to the existing RAID, I would like to create...
View ArticlePE710 - RAID10 larger than 3.6TB total capacity?
I'm trying to create a RAID10 array with 4x2TB HDDS on a PERC 6i and am unable to get an array to create. I decided to go to the R720 build/configuration page and closely mirror the same system and ran...
View ArticleSAS 5/iR - Replacing one of mirrored drives
My PowerEdge 840 is configured as such: Windows Server 2003 SBSSAS 5/iR controller1st Virtual Disk - Raid 1 (Mirrored) configSLOT 0 -- Seagate ES3 750GB, 7.2K, 3.5 SATA HDDSLOT 1 -- Seagate ES3...
View ArticleR710 - how is RAID 10 working with 6 drives exactly?
I set up my R710 with RAID 10, six 2TB drives. Does this mean there are three pairs, and I could lose one disk out of each pair?Also, I did not set up a hot spare first. Is there no way to demote one...
View Articleperc 300 epic fail
So I have a a R310 which came with a perc 300 raid card. WE migrated our older server over to it. WE had set up a raid 1+0 with 4 drives and loaded server 2008 R2. Had the Server up for 10 Days...
View ArticleR720xd XL - RAID H710 mini Controller
I need to understand why a disk will get put in a missing/foreign state and what steps I can take to get them back into the existing RAID configuration without data lose.I've seen a system with SSD...
View ArticleWhich raid card can use with PE1900?
HiI just own PE1900 without PERC 5/i controller.and I need to buy a new raid controller card.I have confuse that PE1900 support only PERC 5/i? or can use with- PERC 6/i- H310- other card?Thanks
View ArticleDrive failure - system beeping
Recently m also face same issue of continues beep. In this situation array showing degraded.server working fine and server stop in post to press any key to continue.that time continues beeps are...
View ArticlePerc H310 bad flash
I have in my system a Perc h310 and a intel rsw2c80. Both cards are LSI clones based on the same architecture and controller. I proceeded to for a flash update on the Intel card successfully, but...
View Articleh310 bad after flash
I have a system with a perch310 and an Intel 4s2scw080. Both are sas2008 cards. When I applied the firemware flash to the intel card using the intel utility, this utility applied the patch to both...
View ArticleUpgrading HDD Size
PE860 and running out of space on the 1 drive. This server has a SAS 5 controller and the virtual drive is being used. I put a much bigger drive in and it is resyncing but to the old size. Should I...
View ArticleCERC 2S - Does breaking RAID 1 cause data loss?
I have a CERC 2S controller with drives configured with RAID1. One of the members of the RAID set has been lost. Rather than adding a hot spare and rebuilding it, I want to clone the currently...
View ArticleAdding disks to existing raid 5 on Poweredge r610
Hi !I have Dell Poweredge R610 , with esxi 5.0 installed on it.I need to add 2 disks to my existing raid 5. I read that the raid array supports the Online Capacity Expansion. The problem is that I...
View ArticlePerc 6/i SAS Controller + Poweredge 1950
Hi all,I need to ask a few questions regarding this new install I did:I see it's a hardware SAS Controller, can I make this server "Non-Raid"I want to setup this without a RAID controller or RAID of...
View ArticleDell H710 perc card and install of Windows 2008 R2
I am trying to install Windows on a RAID 1 mirror I setup and after loading the driver I do not see the RAID1 VD, However I do see the RAID 5 VD that I also created. Please help as to why I can not see...
View Articlemanaging H710 remotely on Hyper-V Server 2012?
Installed MS Hyper-V Server 2012 (bare metal hypervisor) on Dell T420 with PERC H710. The main volume (RAID6 on eight SFF NLS spindles) is yet to be configured.Is there a way to manage H710 remotely on...
View ArticleUsing smart with Windows Server and Perc 6i
Hello everybody,I've got to set up a health-check on our server with a Perc 6i and after a long search without any usable results I am asking within this forum.Is there a posibility to use the smart...
View ArticleDell Power Edge 1800 - Can't install Windows Server 2008 R2
I have tried installing Windows Server 2008 R2 three-4 times today. I keep getting a blue screen after the boot disc gets to "Loading Windows" part. The code is 0x00000f4 (0x0000000000000003 ,...
View ArticlePoweredge 2950 perc 6i raid 5 drive fail then hot swap fail
Hello,I have a Poweredge 2950 perc 6i raid 5 array, with 5 drive in the array and 1 hot swap. Drive 0-3 still show as online. Drive 4 failed last night and then the hotswap failed. After reboot both...
View ArticleUpgrading Hard Drive Size T110
Hello,I have a Power Edge T110 with a PERC H200 Controller. Raid 1 Array with two 250gb drives installed.I would like to upgrade them to (two) 1 TB drives. I was told with the PERC controller you can...
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