Dell Power edge 1850 | Can't select drives
Can someone please help me setup the Raid on PE1850 server.If I do the following on start up: ctrl-m during post > configure > easy configuration, press spacebar. You should be able to select...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1950SAS/SCSI Pin Question please?
Good day, and sorry to post... I wish once "inside" a thread, they would have a better search but I am in process of purchasing a 1950 PE and I am unsure of a couple of thing after looking here:...
View ArticleRaid Monitor for Poweredge T310
I am looking for a software to run on a Poweredge T310 to monitor the system including the raid health. I have been searching around, but having trouble locating one via DELL. Can someone point me to...
View ArticlePowerEdge T610 Adding another drive to expand R5
I am running a T610 with H710 Controller. Win7 Pro with 1 x 300mb as a R0 VD (boot drive) and 5 x 3tb as R5 VD (data drive). I want to expand the R5 VD so I added another 3tb drive. When I do an cntrl...
View ArticlePerc 6/i performance across connectors
Hi --I'm configuring a PowerEdge 2950 III with Perc 6/i.I have2x 146G 15K SAS disks4x 300G 15K SAS disksI have a RAID 1 array on the 146G disks, and will setup up a RAID 10 array on the 300G disks....
View ArticlePowerEdge HotSwap RAID ESXI
If I have a SATA drive in one of the internal Sata Ports, and install ESXi on the drive. I should be able to boot to the non-hot swap Sata Harddrive, and enable passthrough on the Hot-Swap Raid PCIE...
View ArticleiDRAC complaining about my SSD drives
I just bought a new PE T420 with iDRAC.As soon as I put in my SSD drives they started blinking amber, and the LCD readout says "PDR1101 Fault" for both drives.Both drives are brand new, and they are...
View ArticlePE R720 Enclosure (Backplane) shows Degraded but no information why
I have a PowerEdge R720 and the Backplane (Encloser) show as Degraded (Non-Critical), but that is the only information that I get. Connector 0 show as degraded and Connector 1 is healthy. All the...
View ArticlePERC4 Controller Drive Failure
I recently had a Power Edge 2800 have the mirrored drives both fail on the PERC4 controller and am now in a real pickle. In order to get the OS mirrored drives installed and readyu I had to clear the...
View ArticleResizing system partition with 3rd party software
I am running out of space on my 12 gig system partition. After some work i got it back up to 1 gig of free space but it won't be long before it will be getting low again. I have a d: partition with...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 800 'no boot device available'
Hi,I have a Dell PowerEdge 800 with a Raid Array (4 HDDs) with about 200GB of used space. It will not get through the Boot and stops at displays 'no boot device available'. I am PC literate and...
View ArticleRaid 5 failure with PowerEdge R515 Server
Hello,Just this morning our Dell server decided to crash and never recovered. Upon connecting a monitor to the server we see it at the system recovery screen giving us the option to restore from a...
View ArticlePE 2950, PERC6, RAID 5 - how to rebuild drive
Hello everyone !!I've a big trouble with a PE 2950 with a perc6/i ctrl and raid 5 system.the disk number 5 blinked amber and the utility mark the drive as broken.I've replace the disk and now it blink...
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Cables needed for PERC H700 Controller
Hi,I have a T710 server that was using the on board storage controller and I have just purchased a H700 PERC controller to allow me to create two RAID 5 arrays (I have 8 3.5" bays). I have just tried...
View ArticlePoweredge R610 add hard drives to Hyper-V Server 2008 r2 PERC6i
I have:Poweredge R610 PERC 6i3 x 146GB SAS in Raid 5OS: Hyper-v Server 2008 r2I just added three more 146GB SAS drivesHow do I expand the RAID 5 from here?I've been reading up on Open Manage but have...
View ArticleWS 2003 Hard drive not found - SATA
I got couple of PowerEdge 1950, trying to install Windows Server 2003 / 2008They came with no HDD in them, and i don't have any SAS, so i insreted SATA (Tried with both Seagate 1TB, WD 500GB only) on...
View ArticleRebuilding a VD (RAID 5), Can I boot during?
A simple question:I'm rebuilding a raid 5 on a PERC6/i. Everything seems to be going fine, my question is can I restart and boot the server without interrupting the rebuild? I started the rebuild...
View ArticleProblem doing Disk Controller Updates
Hi,We have a Dell R710 with an H700 controller, and a perc6/e controller for an external DAS.On this we have installed Windows Server 2008 x32 enterprise.Firmware needs to be updated on both of these...
View ArticlePerc 5 boot problems
BS"DHi, After replacing what appeared to be the failed drive in bay #2 in our 2950 poweredge, the server still wouldn't boot. I re-seated the RAID controller and removed/reinstalled the battery to...
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