PowerEdge R720 Virtual Disk issue
Hi, our company has purchased a Dell PowerEdge R720. I tried to use the Lifecycle Controller in configuring the RAID. Initially it has 3 HDD all 500GB SAS but I ordered an additional 2x 320GB SAS...
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 ArticleWhere is DOS version A49 of Dell Nautilus Firmware Update Utility for SAS and...
I need to update the firmware using the DOS version A49 release but I cannot find it anywhere on the site. Based on past nomenclature it should be named NautilusA49_ZPE.exe but even google doesn't pick...
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no find raid properties
sas raid is not find raid propertieswhy “raid properties ”is not here？
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Non certified drives throwing Faults
Hello,We have a number of Dell blades running Perc h700 and Perc h710 cards.Most of these are running Samsung 840 pro SSD drives, and Samsung 830 SSD drives - these drives are running perfectly fine,...
View ArticleVRTX perc8
Hi,I just installed xenserver 6.2 on my VRTX server. Now I am not able to see the shared perc8 storage.I tried to install the linux drivers for the shared storage but until now I have no luck to make...
View Articlesecond RAID1 setup on existing server
Hello DellI've got a poweredge R320 with 2X500GB disks configured as RAID1. I am about to place an order with Dell for 2x4T disks to add to the server. My question is:Is it possible to RAID1 the new...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 SAS1068E-IR
Hi,I have a PowerEdge T110 with 2 x 500GB Disk Raid1 config on SAS1068E-IR.I would like to add a second Raid1 array with 2 x 2TB Disks without touching the current config.I noticed that when I see the...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge NVMe MLC Express Flash PCIeSSD, 2.5in, Hot-plug - VMware drivers
Any idea on when VMware drivers will be available for the 400 GB NVMe MLC PCIeSSD ?
View ArticlePoweredgde 2900 Perc5/i Can't seem to get Raid set up correctly
Hello,this is my first time working with this type of system. and only second time with a raid setup.I am helping a friend with his office server. after a "brown out" he sent the drives off for Data...
View ArticlePerc 6/i Foreign config on disk / how to clear a disk
Hello, I have replaced a RAID-5 disk with a spare disk that already has a Foreign Config on it. I want to clear the config by hand, can i zero out the disk so it will be detected as empty? (dd...
View ArticleR720 split backplane / dual RAID option
Hi, were a small business that needs to replace a five year old PowerEdge 2950 server with a newer machine. Buying a server is a big deal for us, and I do not want to spend on components now if I don't...
View Articledell precision t7400 PERC 6/i raid 1 problem
I am using this forum as it seems to be the most active and I couldn't find any other related to raid forum for my device. After a boot my raid 1 was degraded, and started syncing but gave an error on...
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Can't get to BIOS - integrated raid exception detected
See image below, this is the screen I am seeing right now. Can't get past this, just hangs on this.I created a DVD with Dell's Support Live Image Version 2.0 but can't get it to boot to the CDNeed some...
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Raid configurartion question
Hi,Last week we bought a new Poweredg R910 with 6X900 GB SAS drive, colleague of mijn did use 4 of these 6 Drives to confiure a RAID 5. we also sepretly bought 2X400GB SATA drives and he build a RAID...
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Disk managment question
Hi,We have a new poweredge R910, my colleague has configured 2 RAIDs on this server one RAID 5 with 4 disks and one RAID 1 with 2 disks. today I check the disk managment and see something strange I can...
View ArticlePowerEdge R620 and H710 Integrated Card Cable
I recently purchased 3 R620's with the integrated software RAID S110. We decided to add a hardware RAID and purchased the PERC H710 Integrated RAID Controller (342-3534) , which attaches to the...
View ArticleBest Stripe Element Size -Perc 6I
After two weeks of research and different sites, I still haven't found an adequate answer to my question.I have a R-610 with a Perc 6I, 4-Seagate ST9146853SS, 146GB,15K,64MB drives for a Raid 10. I...
View ArticleDrive Failure and Rebuild
Hi everyone, I have a dell powerdege 2950 I have 2 73GB drives that are in a RAID1 config. One of the drives shows degraded. we got the hard drive with the degraded status swapped out with a new drive....
View ArticleH710P
I'm looking to upgrade a Dell R520 - (3) SATA 1TB drives from S110 to H710P. can someone please tell me which cables I will need. Dell suggested the H710p (342-3536).Thanks
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