T320 with redundant raid controllers & arrays
I'm going to purchase a T320 to upgrade a small office system. I've got my integrator quoting a system for me.Normall I like redundant raid array's for my windows server set ups.BOOT/OS on a 2 drive...
View ArticleT620 SAS cables for H710
Will this work?WF2JF Mini SAS cable from PERC/SAS to X8 BPDo I need two per H710?
View ArticleServer 2003 R2 SP2 and OMSA
I am getting a lot of issues installing OMSA on this host. The error:An error occured while attempting to execute a Visual Basic Script. Please confirm that Visual Basic files are installed...
View ArticleWhich hard drive to use on PowerEdge 2900 upgrade
Hi Guys,I had a post earlier about running Esxi on my 2900 and was advised that I can use 2TB per bay. I asked my Dell account manager to quote me on that and the sales lady came back and said they...
View ArticleWhat cables for H700 in R710
I had a Perc 6i failure and figured I'd take the opportunity to upgrade.I bought an H700 to find that the cables are not the same.What cables do I need for an H700 in an R710 with 6 x 3.5" drive?
View ArticleR200 RAID help
Hello. I just acquired an R200. I installed windows 2012 datacenter. It has 2x160gb sata hdd. I dont even know if this server has a raid controller. Its not like the 2850 I had.Can I configure RAID...
View Articles100 perc raid controller problem
Hello. The company I'm working for had purchased dell poweredge r210 II, equipped with s100 perc raid controller. When I try to install windows server 2012 r2 it asks for raid drivers. For this product...
View ArticleUpgrade disk space RAID 5 with H310 Controller
Hi, I have a Poweredge T320 server with an H310 controller in RAID 5 with three 500gb disks. I have room to add one more 500gb drive to the array, but would like to get more disk space. With the H310...
View ArticleInterpret Hard drive position
Hi! My company have a Dell 2900 server. Can I know how to interpret the Hard dive position. What does it mean : Failed drive(s) are in slot (Physical 1:0:4) What does each number mean? Does it mean...
View ArticleImproving Performance with a PERC H310
Can I get some advise on improving performance on a Dell T420 with a PERC H310? I have 2x15K SAS drives in RAID1 with a dedicated hot spare. Unfortunately, the bottleneck is the PERC H310 as I have...
View ArticleAdding Hard Disk to PowerEdge R310
Dear All,I have a Dell PowerEdge R310. But now its Hard disk space is very low. I found that one of that hard disk bay is empty. My question is that, can i add one more hard disk to get the enough...
View ArticleLow speed reading from the cache with H700 integrated RAID
Hello!I have a server Dell R510 with H700 integrated card.The configuration of the disk subsystem is the following: sda - 4x300 SAS 15k RAID10 sdb - 2x240 SSD RAID1There is a very low reading speed...
View ArticleCan I mix SAS and SATA drives on my server?
Hello all,We have a poweredge 2900 server which currently has 6x73gb SAS and 2x146gb SAS. We've run out of storage space and for costs reasons would like to add SATA drives to the server.It has a PERC...
View ArticlePE 1900 with Foreign disk
HiI have a PE 1900 with perc 5i raid controller card and 3 disks in raid 5 array. Recently one of the disks (the 3rd) has vanished from the Raid 5 in Dell System Administrator and turned up as a...
View ArticleH310: 6Gbps or 3Gbps
Hi,We have an R520 with integrated H310, 3 HDD and 1 SSD. The HDDs are 3Gbps, but SSD is 6Gbps capable, which gets negotiated down to 3Gbps.I suspected this was happening because they were all on the...
View ArticleReplacing SATA disk in PERC S100 RAID 1 configuration
I have a Windows 2008 server (32-bit, T110) with two 500GB SATA disks in a PERC S100 RAID 1 config. One of the disks is showing signs of failure so I am going to replace it. OpenManage is installed if...
View Articlec2100 backplane speed 6gb/s with ssd drives?
Hi,Is the c2100 backplane passive? would it support ssd drives at 6gb/s on an LSI 9260-8i? I'm looking to install 6x ssd drives in a raid 10 configuration and would like to confirm that they would run...
View ArticleDell Poweredge 1950 problem
Hi guys,The problem is after pulling out the hard drives( 2 hdd ) and putting them back, the computer could not find boot disk. Is this normal? I really need help about this.Thanks
View Article2950 WONT BOOT
Hi, we have a 2950 with PERC5i, 6 total drives in raid 5 setup. Drive 2 is blinking , showing fault in bios. Drive 1 is listed as missing, not sure why, didn't setup original raid. In PD MGTdrive 1...
View ArticleReplacing a non-hot-swappable drive on Perc 6/i
I had a server go down this morning. It wouldn't boot - kept hanging on "Some configured disks have been removed from your system, or are no longer accessible...". In checking the RAID configuration...
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