source for drive caddy screws, Dell R900, 2 1/2" cadd
I have a Dell R900, need some replacement screws for the 2 1/2" drive caddies. Does anyone have a source?
View Articlebare metal restore source PE 2800 - target PE 2900 III
I try to recover a SBS 2011 Windows from PE 2800 to a PE 2900 III (TAG <ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed per privacy policy>) with perc 6i.No success with Symantec System Recovery 2011 and same...
View ArticlePERC 6i Controller shows all drives as failed
Hello,I have a R410 server with a PERC 6i RAID controller which has currently 4 x 250G SATA drives installed. Everything works and life is good. However, I need to replace these drives with bigger...
View ArticleDell Server R210 RAID1
Trying to do a RAID1 with a Hot Spare. I just purchased:WD Red 1TB NAS Version which says it's RAID-ready. But when I go to SAS Configuration Settings to turn:Drive1 into PrimaryDrive2 into Secondary...
View ArticleCheck storage RAID level remotely
Hello,I am new to Dell server series, and I have to setup/reconfig some Dell server including 2950/R410/R420/R710 models. Since those servers are in production state (some are virtual machine host) at...
View ArticleR510 12 bay system with 2.5" drives
On most PE systems there is a way to split the drive backplane to use both SAS channels. How is this accomplished on a R510?
View ArticleReemplazar disco SAS dañado en arreglo RAID 1
Hola que tal buenas tardes, voy a reemplazar un disco duro dañado en un arreglo RAID 1, de un servidor Poweredge R620, quisiera saber cual es el procedimiento correcto de realizarlo.SaludosJuan Carlos...
View ArticleCache batteries do not show good in OMSA 7.0
We have hundreds of PowerEdge R910 servers with H700 Raid Controllers where the batteries are reaching the end of life. We are in the process of replacing these batteries as OMSA reports them as being...
View ArticleHow to upgrade the Drives in my H200 RAID to larger size and SATA to SAS
We are upgrading the hard drives in our Dell Poweredge T110 outfitted with a PERC-H200A and two 1TB SATA drives in mirrored RAID. We run the Dell T110 version of ESXi 5.1 and a single Windows Server...
View ArticleHow to avoid from losing data of RAID disks
We have got new 2 dell PE R720 servers with 4 hard disks each and H310 RAID controllers. We have installed Windows server 2012 R2 on both servers.I have configured same RAID config on both servers,...
View ArticleSSD DISKS
HiHas anyone configured ssd disks in the PowerEdge R730xd for VMware Virtual SAN Setup .When I go into the vsan setup i cant see any of the disks.If i got inoto the bios I can see the 4 ssd and 4 sas...
View ArticleHow to get HDD S.M.A.R.T information from MD1200
Hello,Does anyone know how to get full detailed HDD S.M.A.R.T information of each disk in the system.System Configuration R710 + H700 + 4 x MD1200 dual controllerWin 2008 R2Open ManageThanksAmi
View ArticleRaid 1 / Raid 5 / virtual disks
I am working on a PowerEdge T610 server with Raid 1 & Raid 5 using a Perc 6/i controller. I am preparing to install a new disk to increase the raid 5 array. I am aware that I need to install...
View ArticlePoweredge 2900 - Maximum external USB drive size
Hi,I inherited responsibility for a Poweredge 2900 server last year. Recently I was asked to mount an NTFS 5TB external USB drive.This failed with the following message:$ mount...
View ArticleDegraded Virtual Disk RAID 1
I have a PowerEdge R200 that is reporting a degraded Virtual Disk (RAID 1). I replaced the failed drive with a new one, and I still do not see in Dell Server Manager. It's still reporting a degraded...
View ArticleAdding Second Virtual Disk / RAID Array
Good Day Dear Colleagues! I need your Help, may be somebody knows I have the Domain server Dell R420 with Perco H710 controller. And there is 1 Tb HDD inside. It is in RAID 0. System working and...
View ArticleT320 with PERC H310 - 2012 Server desktop app to monitor/config PERC?
New to Dell. Good stuff. Just put into production a new T320 with a PERC H310.Is there a Windows desktop app/interface to allow me to see and/or monitor the PERC?YEARS ago I managed servers that use...
View Articledisks information
we have several dell servers- Poweredge R710, T410, T310 and others.Iwould like to know if there is a way i can disks and raid infirmation from servers installed with ESXi without restarting the...
View ArticleRAID-5 array is degraded, OS will not start. Need some HELP!
One of our server went down, we need to get some data of it as the backup is outdated.Server: PowerEdge T110 IIRunning a Raid-5 array with three 500gb Seagate drives. The PERC s300 controller setup...
View ArticleLooking for the right part number for an R415 H700 integrated raid card
Hello,I have an R415 server with an S300 integrated RAID card and I'm looking for:Dell PERC H700 Integrated RAID Controllerto install in the integrated RAID controller slot. I don't want to use the...
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