Virtual Disk Degraded and Predictive Failure Messages
Hi ExpertsWe are getting following errors in OpenManage for RAID 10. There are 8 hard disks and one of them is creating this problem. It is blinking green and amber.A foreign configuration has been...
View ArticleDell poweredge 2950 and external hard drive
can I install a 7 port PCIe USB3.0 card on the Dell PowerEdge 2950 board and connect other USB 3.0 external hard drives to this unit to be used for data sharing via intranet and internet ? and will...
View ArticlePowerEdge T310 Hard Drives Dying!!
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue or something similar:We have about 100 T310's in production running with mirrored RAID configuration (they are Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hosts - of...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2800 with 4/Di Raid controller
Hello, I want to update the firmware to latest on my PE2800 server. Currently windows 2008 R2 is running on it. Please help. Regards,
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PowerEdge r310 2 x 2TB sata Dell PERC 6/iR very slow sync, then “No boot...
I have two PowerEdge r310’s with 4 2TB sata drives, 2 x 2tb raid 1. When i create the 1st raid 1 and initialize it takes 2 or 3 days to finally show as optimal. roughly 1% per hour. If I attempt to...
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PowerEdge R710 "Storage" error in Server Administrator but no relevant...
Hi people,I have a strange issue with my DELL PowerEdge R710 Server AdministratorUnder Health, it shows a red cross error for StorageApparently there is an error with Connector 0 of my SAS 5/E AdapterI...
View ArticleCommand MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL return error
I was running MegaCli to get BBU info, but suddently it failed and return errors:# MegaCli -AdpBbuCmd -aALL Adapter 0: Get BBU Design Info Failed.FW error...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 Clone Drive Rebooting
Hello Everyone.Just wanted to see if I could get some assistance here. Original server HD was a 250gb SATA with C: at 40G and D: for data. I purchased a 2TB SATA drive, and was able to clone with...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1950 SAS 5/i Maximum Hard Drive Capacity?
Hi Guys,I am planning on doing an upgrade on one of our PowerEdge 1950's which has the SAS 5/i controller.Currently it as 1 x 80GB SATA II Drive and 1 x 250GB SATA II Drive.The upgrade I am wishing to...
View ArticleDrive problems
Hi Guys,I have a poweredge2900 with Raid5 on it, they seem a problem with one of the drives and giving errors, i restart and now everything seem to work fine but still i want to check the drives and...
View ArticleAdding Physical Disk to Server
Here's my situation and I'm hoping you can help. I am tasked with upgrading one of our PowerEdge R520's with a new hard drive. The server itself is a simple file server and has 4 2TB drives in a raid 5...
View ArticleDell Poweredge 1800 Raid 5 accidental removal of HDD
I was trying to see the HDD type of the Raid as i wanted the upgrade the server. Out of 3 HDD, 2 were disconnected. i powered down the Server and reconnected the HDD. The Raid is offline now. It shows...
View ArticleDell Power Edge T110 II along PERC S100. Raid Does not Show HDD in Virtual...
Hi Guyz..facing same problem as umerhabib mention in his subject regarding Raid Configuration Issue.(I have T110 II Server and 3 SATA WD Hard-disk 1 TB each.And having RAID Controller PERC S100When...
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Server T110 II RAID configuration Issue
HiI have T110 II Server and 3 SATA WD Hard-disk 1 TB each.And having RAID Controller PERC S100When Server load RAID controller card it shows 3 HDs on Host adopter.While configuring RAID with Virtual...
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PE2950 won't see sata ssd's
I'm not sure what's going on, they were jbod in my hp dl380 g5 and worked fine. I backed up the data and they can be wiped, and I can see them in the screen, but I can't seem to *do* anything with...
View ArticleHow to check firmware and Driver version details on Dell
I have to upgrade the firmware and driver version on a Power Edge 2950 Server. Please let me know is there any commands to get those information. I am using Windows 2008 R2 64 bit version.
View ArticlePowerEdge R510 memory upgrade
I'm looking to do some memory upgrades on my R510 and need some clarification on some statements in the docs. It says for single or dual ranked DIMMs, 1 module per channel supports 1333, 2 per channel...
View ArticleFailed Drive in RAID 5 with Multiple VD
I have a PE T310 with PERC 6/I hot plugs. I have 4 hard drives (Hot Plug) setup with RAID 5 and created 4 Virtual Disks and one of them is the OS. I have a Failure Predicted on disk 0:1. I got the new...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 Server hardware RAID
Hi,I am not sure SAS hard disks are in hardware RAID on our server. how many SAS disks can I add to the server?What we have now:146GB 3.5-inch 15K RPM SAS Hard Drive ( three disks but when I opened the...
View ArticleRaid 10 not available
I have a T300 with a SAS6/IR setup and I can get raid 0 and raid 1 but it does not show raid 10. Can you not run raid 10 on this setup?
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