Hello,
I need to find out what cable do I need when upgrading Dell R420 - from S110 software raid to Perc H710. I have 4 * 3.5 wired HD. The existing cable is SATA A-D connects 4 wired HDs.
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Dell R420 - upgrade from S110 to Perc H710 - wired 3.5 HD backplane
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Dell Poweredge 2950 no network drivers installed
Yes i have a dell 2950 1st generation that i bought used... Added new hard drives and installed small business server but i don't have any network drivers installed...Im Having trouble finding the drivers where can i locate the drivers and not get a file that does not contain the drivers as that seems to be all i find
thanks
james
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Dell r710 and LSI 9207 4i4e
Hi guys
I have the Dell r710
with latest bios (6.4) and firmware
I also have 2 Samsung 850 Evo drives in the Harddrive Enclosures
I have the LSI 9207 4i4e installed in the non integrated PCI Slots
The LSI 9207 4i4e is on Firmware is version 18
Upon boot the LSI HBA is recognized and and enabled and the 2 Samsung 850 Evo are recognized by the LSI HBA card. I have also formatted the Evo drives in the HBA Config utility (Ctrl C) and made the SSDs bootable
In Dell r710 bios I have also disabled the perc6i integrated controller which came with the server.
Unplugged all the cables to perc6i(The perc6i is still in its integrated slot though)
and the SAS A and B backplanes are connected with appropriate cables to the LSI 9207 4i4e (one 8087 to 8087 (SASB backplane ) cable to LSI card internal slot and one 8087 to 8088 (SAS A Backplane) to LSI external slot.
I have selected UEFI booting so I can install windows server 2012 which is located on USB stick.
The system boots into the windows install files and allows me the build a primary partition on one of the SSDs to install windows too. Everything seems to proceed fine and windows goes into its customary reboot of the server to finalize the installation.
But this is where I hit upon a snag.
Upon reboot the expectation is that windows boots from SSD's connected to the LSI HBA, but unfortunatly it just goes straight back into the USB running the windows installation again. So I enter the Dell UEFI menu and see if i can select the windows boot partition, but unfornately the Dell UEFI says its' uavailable windows boot partiion' and is not selectable
I know this should all work because I originally had samsung 850 evos connected to the perc6i and windows server installed without hitch and i was able to login to windows and see the SSDs under a raid virtual volume.
So i dont if if anybody out can get this working with the 9207 4i4e. My main reasons for going with this card is according to LSI's documentation on their website, this card has been tested and is compatiable with Dell r710's servers and samsung 850 evos. I wanted to take advantage of higher 6GB speed that the LSI 9207 offers over the perc 6i.
Any ideas from anybody out there would be really helpful.
Also I do realise that Samsung 850 Evo are probably not certified with dell r710 as they are consumer grade and the dell 710 is an old server. But I was able to get this working with the perc6i but the read and write speeds were very slow. I know the alternatives are the H700 and maybe H710 percs. But if I could get 9207 4i4e to work It would be great.
Thank you again John
Dell r710
(2CPU Xeon X5660, 48GB, 870 watt PSU)
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PERS S100 RAID 1, 2 drives, one failed system won't boot
PowerEdge T110 II, Server 2008 R 2.
Ran Windows updates, rebooted, system want to do a recovery yet wont, bounde into the PERC and see 1 drive down. this happened on another server with same setup 2 months ago. On that one ended up disconnecting the bad drive and the system woudl boot.
No such luck on this server. "Boot normally" puts the sytems into a reboot. "repair" takes to a page where it wants drivers, I presume the PERC ones, put them on a USB drive, but system won't repair. does see drive "X:" 9the C drive, just cannot get it to boot.
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R730 Non-certified hard disks
Hello,
Does R730 support non-certified hard disks? I thought that it does. I'm trying to put HGST disks into it.
Best,
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omconfig "Operation not supported"
Poweredge M610, Windows Server 2012 R2, OMSA 8.1.0.1
A disk in a RAID 1 would changed after fault but the new disk comes not online.
When I try to bring it online with omconfig I get the error "Operation not supported":
C:\Windows\system32>omconfig storage pdisk action=online controller=0 pdisk=0:0:1
Operation not supported. Read, action=online
Refer to the documentation for more Information.
When I try any other omconfig command, I get the same, b.e.
C:\Windows\system32>omconfig storage controller action=clearforeignconfig controller=0
Operation not supported. Read, action=clearforeignconfig
Refer to the documentation for more Information.
omreport commands function.
What means "Operation not supported"? Is the disk not available?
In the BIOS of the RAID Controller the disk is marked as degraded but I find no way to change this.
Barbara Joost
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Best way to stress test HDD's Pre-OS
I've got a T320 with a H710 card. I want to stress test the drives before I install my OS. Is there a good tool to do that? If not, what can I use with Server 2008 R2 that would test my drives?
If there is no way to test pre-os, what utility should I use after I install Windows Server 2008 R2?
Thanks,
Roveer
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How to upgrade a VRTX with a second Shared Perc 8
Hello,
I'm looking for an "how to" configure the VRTX with a new second shared perc 8.
I like to have a fault tolerant configuration.
Thanks for your help.
Olivier GAUJAC
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How do I break a Raid 1 array so I can assign the 2nd disk as its own VD?
I'm setting up my system and want to stress test the disks. It came with 2 disks in a raid 1 and I temporarily put a windows server on it so I could run some utilities. Turns out in order to get to all of the drives I need to assign them as Raid 0 VD's in order to surface test them.
Can I break the Raid 1, make the first disk that still has the windows server on it it's own VD raid 0 and then assign the second disk to it's own raid 0 VD?
If I can't than I'll just wipe the array, set up the disks and have to reinstall the OS. Not the end of the world. Was hoping to save a few hours.
Roveer
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RAID
I am setting up a new file server on a PE2600. I have 2 36GB drives in RAID 1. I also have 4 300GB drives. My question is what is the best way to "RAID" them? Space is not an issue. I want speed and redundancy. I was thinging of 2 sets of RAID 1 and then span1 and span2. Any thoughts?
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Dell Poweredge R720xd and PERC H730P RAID Controller - What cable to use?
Hi,
I have a Dell R720xd that didn't come with a RAID controller. It came with an LSI SAS 9207-8i host bus adapter. I have since acquired a PERC H730P RAID Controller, which needs to be installed. The RAID Controller didn't come with any SAS cables. I understand that I need a Y type SAS cable to connect the backplane to the SAS connector on the system board as shown in figure 13 at the following link:
My R720xd has a 2.5" backplane. i.e. the front looks like this:
What is the correct part number for the SAS cable that I need to buy to connect the backplane to the SAS connector on the system board?
Currently, there are 2 separate SAS cables that connect the backplane to the LSI HBA 9207-8I SAS Controller. They will not physically fit into the SAS connector on the motherboard. I believe I need the Y type cable as shown in the first diagram above.
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Disk Failure Predicted - how to verify if drive is actually bad?
Have multiple PowerEdge 2950 & 710 servers with 2.5" SAS drives setup in RAID 1 on PERC 5/6 controllers.
One 2950 server had a drive with "disk failure predicted"; I hot swapped the drive out, rebuilt on spare disk.
The "disk failure predicted" then showed up on the replacement disk.
I then swapped out that drive; the replacement to the replacement showed "disk failure predicted".
I shutdown the server, swapped out the hard drive, rebuilt the mirror from RAID BIOS, did a consistency check, and the third replacement disk shows "disk failure predicted".
The predicted failure showed up on a second RAID volume on the same server. I took the mirrored disks and put them into a spare 2950; any disks I add to the RAID volume with a "failure pending" disk also get marked a failure pending.
I took all of the "predicted failure" drives, put them into a different server, did a clear foreign config, did a clear disk. All of the them still show "predicted failure".
Something doesn't seem right with this "predicted failure" indicator. Some drives have actually failed, but to have about 10 drives come down with "predicted failure" after trying to repair RAID volumes that are showing these errors is very strange. The disks are various ages and types (some are 10 years old, some are 2 years, there is a mix of Seagate and fujitsu, some are Dell certified some are not, some have had the firmware upgraded).
Question 1: is there a way to verify a drive is actually good or bad? (ie are good drives being flagged as failed because of problems with the RAID volume)
Question 2: once a drive is marked "predicted failure" is this permanent? (ie the problem is with the RAID volume not the actual drive)
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No ID on 2.5" NVMe PCIe SSDs ?
Hi,
We got 400GB 2.5" NVMe PCIe SSDs (made by Samsung) with R730xd systems.
The NVMe EUI64 field, which is supposed to have a globally unique id, has zeroes instead.
As a result, there are problems with generating WWN symlinks in /dev/disk/by-id/ in Oracle Linux 7.1. The WWNs are generated from EUI64, so they end up the same for all drives.
Is this a known issue? Is there any way to enable or program the EUI64 field?
Thanks!
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PowerEdge T300 disk corruption
Hello,
I have a client with a PE T300 that is suffering from data corruption on a 1TB RAID1 array (used as the data partition) on an SAS6 controller. The server also has a 250GB RAID1 array which is the main OS partition so all four slots on the controller are full.
I'm not sure why the corruption has occurred, but I have just had to replace the power supply as the fan noise was excessive so possibly the server has experienced power issues. The system is suffering from user profile issues - some users cannot retrieve their profiles when logging in, there are also 'file corrupt' messages when accessing some of the user data files.
Event Viewer is reporting 'The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume DATAPART1'. I have tried running chkdsk /f but whilst checking index entries (stage 2 of 3) it quits with 'an unspecified error has occurred' (no error number). Each time I run chkdsk, the repair results are slightly different and it quits in different places. I have run chkdsk certainly more than ten times.
I thought of doing a consistency check on the RAID, but after checking OMSA and much internet searching, it would appear a consistency check is not an option with this controller. The controller reports both physical drives have no failure predicted. The controller firmware is not fully up to date, current version is 00.25.47.00.06.22.03.00, drivers are 1.28.03.01. Would updating increase my options / help chkdsk complete and should I do it while the drive is in this condition?
Please help, where do I go from here? Is it a case of format the drive and restore from backup? Windows Backup is used. I am slightly scared of this as the volume contains the Exchange Store and I've never done a restore of Exchange before.
This has so far ruined my weekend :). Would really appreciate your advice if there is anything I can try.
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Replacing a Defunct Drive
We have a R710 with 8 drives. 1 array = drive 0 and 1 in a RAID 1. 2nd array = drives 2-7 in RAID 5. Lost drive 2 some days ago. Inserted a new equal size drive and it will NOT rebuild. I was instructed to mark the drive as a hot-spare and it should rebuild but it does not. In ctrl-r utility, you can not mark the drive anything but hot-spare. Cant force it online, force it offline or nothing! Should i not be able to while the server is running, remove the defunct drive and insert a replacement drive and it start to rebuild? How do i get this drive to rebuild?
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PERC 6/I on R510 with more than five drives.
I have one of the R510 boxes that's configured with eight bays and I've swapped the PERC 6/iR for a 6/i. I've used the correct longer cable to allow the battery to mount where it's supposed to and I've populated the bays with eight 2TB drives. When I first tried booting I got an error from the controller (firmware version 6.3.0) stating there were too many drives connected. I looked up firmware versions and found that the latest (6.3.3) firmware fixes that specific error. I jumped through all the hoops needed (the built-in management software wouldn't let me update, so I created a VD and installed Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 and ran the update software from Windows. This allowed install of all except one update and the successful ones included the PERC firmware. Now I don't get the message, but I do get the last three drives showing yellow instead of green and when in config I only see five drives.
Anyone know why this is, and how to fix it? The PERC 6/I is supposed to control up to 32 drives, and I believe the backplane is only connecting four to each side of the PERC...
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Format Physical Disk using PERC 6/i BIOS utility
I am using Dell R710 server which has raid controller PERC 6/i BIOS utility. I want to use few old hard disks on this server. As they are old disks, I first want to format them. How can I format those physical hard disks using RAID BIOS utility? I have experience of formatting of physical hard disks on other types of RAID controllers so I am looking if there is a way on PERC 6/i.
Thanks
Rohanil
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Should I replace a disk with identical disk from another server?
Newbie question here: I have a server with SAS drive failure predicted and I hope to retire that server within a month. At the same time I have another 2950 that have been retired recently and (if possible) I'd like to re-use a drive from it for the short period of time that I need it to avoid unnecesary spending on a drive that I won't need anytime soon.
Can I just use any identical drive from the retired system to replace the failing drive? The drive would contain some RAID configuration from the other system as well as data, which all (I hope) would get overwritten when I plug in the drive and rebuild the array.
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How can I RAID 4TB drives on my PE 840?
I am a newbie here, but I have been studying the forum for days.
I am determined to make (4) 4TB drives function in my Poweredge 840. I understand that the PERC 5/i controller is not going to do the job. My question is this: Is there any controller card I could buy that would work with the motherboard and do this? Is there any modification I can make to the system that would allow me to use the OEM motherboard?
Just in case someone knows and is willing to share their information, I have one more questions.
Can you recommend replacement equipment that will do the job? I would at least like to use my dual core Xeon processor in an lga775 socket. I've got the money, just not the knowledge. I am having a terrible time finding out the maximum drive size of the various RAID cards.
Can I add a UEFI to my PE 840?
Thanks in advance!!
- Michael
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PowerEdge w/ PERC H730 Mini, Post install configuration
I have a server with a fresh install of 2012 R2. The DHCP, DNS, and AD services have been setup and a few things set in place. The problem is the tech before me did not configure the drives for RAID. There are 5 drives, all the same size. I've never tried it before but is it possible to configure the drives for RAID5 post install without destroying and having to install the OS again. Worst case scenario is I image the partition and image it after RAID is setup but if I don't have to... Thanks for any help.
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