Failing Hard Drive
I have a PowerEdge with a flashing amber light on one of the hard drives. I don t see any error on in the server event logs. The SCSI congroler is PERC 4e/Di RAID Controller and the hard drive is...
View ArticleSSD Cache with c2100 & LSI 9260-8i
Hi,On a C2100 with an LSI 9260-8i, what are the requirements for ssd cache to work? I'd add 2 ssd drives (internally) to enable this feature but I'm not sure if besides the ssd drives I'll need...
View ArticlePerc S110 and Raid 5 don't work well together - Suggestions
Just deployed a PowerEdge T420 with a Perc S110 and RAID 5. After noticing allot of lag and searching the forums it seems I made a bad choice.I'm thinking about switching from RAID 5 to Raid 10 and...
View ArticlePowerEdge T310 PERCH200
A bit stucked, and trying to read manual. We have a Dell PowerEdge T310 server and was/is configured with PERC H200 Controller.I am not that familiar with the RAID setup using the "lsi perc h200 6gbps...
View ArticlePERC 4e/Di Freezes on Config
Good afternoon, folks. We've got a legacy system that's been giving us trouble today, and I'd like to get a second opinion on the matter. We have a PE 2850 that refuses to boot. It'll go through all...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 II intrusion status cannot be reset
Hi,I have a PowerEdge T110 II that has the Health Status indicator blinking amber. At the OMSA, the problem was the intrusion alert. I did opened the cover before but now it is closed. How do I reset...
View ArticleMegaRaid Event ID: 446?
Over the weekend one of my servers started bringing up errors on the megaraid array, the error is;Controller ID: 0 Transient error detected while communicating with PD: -:-:2Event ID:446According...
View ArticlePowerEdge R710 and perc h700, drive not visible in OS
Hey,We have PowerEdge R710 with perc h700 raid controller running 5 physical drives under raid6. We added recently a sixth drive which is much smaller (512 against 4 TBs) that we just want to format...
View ArticleSAS as hot spare for NL-SAS and/or vice versa on h310?
I couldn't find the answer to this by searching. Can a SAS drive be used as a hot spare for a NL-SAS drive on a PERC H310?I'm guessing this might work with the SAS drive performing at the NL-SAS...
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Dell R520 Slow harddisk performance with 6x 600GB SAS 15K
Hello,We are experiencing verry poor write performance on our R520 with 2012 R2.For example, installing a 2012 R2 VM is faster on my home computer than on this server. As we wanted to use this server...
View ArticleAsk : About RAID in DELL T620
I have Dell Server T620 with 3 HDD SASI want to configure HDD 2 & 3 as RAID 1 ( I can create it)and HDD1 as NO RAID, and i want install windows 2008 into this drive.But every time i install windows...
View ArticleDell R710 "A non-Dell supplied disk drive" WD3001
Hi,I have Server R710 with PERC H700 controller (raid6 configuration). Last time i changed orginal DELL hard disk to WD3001BKHG. Then the second disk status lights permanently turn to green and after...
View ArticleReplacing failed hard disk in T300 server ...
Hi everybody: I recently purchased a 500gb hard disk drive for our Dell T300 server. I thought we had a bad drive, as we had a blinking amber light and a degraded array. We have four drives,...
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PowerEdge R410 Help required virtual Drive Problem and additional drive
Hi All,I Currently have a Problem with a PowerEdge R410 Server which is used to store CCTV footage for a Lenel Video SystemThe problem started when we Noticed the 3rd drive or disk 2 was flashing...
View ArticleDell-supplied SSD's show in OMSA as non-certified
Although I contacted Dell chat support to ask about this, I thought I would try here, also.I have two Dell R420 servers, both came with 4 x 480GB SSD (Dell-supplied Intel 520's). The problem is, on...
View ArticleNew server question (RAID & Partitioning)
I need to purchase a new server for a 3rd party vendor. The requirements are (4) 300 GB hard drives in (2) different RAID 1 groups. But I also need a 100 GB OS partition.The online configurator shows...
View ArticleBattery for MD1000 PERC 5/E Controller
Hi,I need to replace the battery on the MD1000 controller PERC 5 / E. I have a battery in stock DP / N NU209, the controller supports this?
View ArticleRAID 5 Powervault NX300 adding a drive
I'm trying to add a drive to a RAID5 on the above for capacity expansion. It has a PERC H700 adapter.The verified answer in another thread on here for what sounds to me like what I'm trying to do...
View ArticleSelf-encrypting drives and controller question
We are looking to start getting Self-encrypting drives on all our new server purchases.Doing some research and I see the authentication key, is stores on the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700...
View ArticlePerc 6/i Poweredge R710 Driver is out of date
OMSA is showing the caution message that the driver version is out of date on the PERC 6/i in our R710.Driver Version2.23.00.64Minimum Required Driver Version2.24.00.32Storport Driver...
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