Looking for suggestions, experience and a BOM to Convert my (4 year old) 4 bay R310 Server currently fitted w/ 2 x 1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5in to 4 x 500 GB 2.5in.
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Convert R310 Server w/ 2 x 1TB 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5in to 4 x 500 GB 2.5in
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Dell Power Edge 1800 Server with three hot swapable Raid 5 scsi disk drives.
One of the three raid 5 drives went down. A replacement drive from Dell is expected in 5 days. Meanwhile an audible alarm informing me that a drive has failed will not stop. How can I disable the alarm short of bringing down the system.
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PowerEDGE R210 II not detect it HDD SATA 500GB
Dear all,
someone could help me. it happened 2 weeks ago., this server did not detect it HDD, if i plug this HDD to another PC it could detected and fine. the error message is "No Boot Device available"
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DELL PowerEdge 2950 PERC 5/i
Dear Members,
I have Dell PowerEdge 2950 Server Which i need to install Windows 2003 Standard Edition and keep it as File Server for my network.
So i bought 2TB SATA WD HDD, I would like to create RAID 1.
As a try i connected two 145GB SAS and one 2TB SATA in the bay and switch ON to create RAID1.
Please guide me how to create RAID 1 using PERC 5/i configuration utility?
My PERC version 5/i Integrated 5.0.2.0003.
Thanks
Tony
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Degraded Array
I have a PowerEdge T410, with 3 x Sata 931.5GB drives in a Raid 5 configuration with a Perc S300 Controller. Never had a HOT spare.
Within OMSA it shows the Virtual Disks as degraded.
We had a HD fail, and it was replaced, and rebuilt successfully, but the array still shows degraded.
I've tried the clear all the logs, and go to global - and rescan but OMSA does not have that option, nor can I run it by the command line.
Besides going into the Bios Raid config - is there any other way to get the array out of degraded mode, or do I have to go into the Raid Bios to do that? Are there any directions on how to do that?
thanks
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PowerEdge R620 - RAID
Hello Team.
Error PDR1001 , I must buy a new disk to the bay 02 , how can I recover the information with the server RAID ?
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Dell Poweredge 1800, SCSI Controller, 3 Physical SCSI Drives
Hello,
We have a Dell Poweredge 1800 server here that was running on Win Server 2003. We have a RAID 5 configuration with three physical drives. I ejected each drive to see what type of drive they were, and snapped them back in, and now I have two recurring issues during startup:
1) Attached is the screenshot of the error message. It shows that the logical drive is failed but all three physical drives are in the system and they do show up with amber lights.
2) The other message shows the SCSI controller keep spinning but it does not go past it in the boot up. I have only had that error message once in my diagnosis.
I also get the message Error! Adapter Malfunctioning!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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PERC 4/Di in Poweredge 1900?
Hello,
Can you use the PERC 4/Di from a PowerEdge server 2600 into a PowerEdge 1900 or it's not compatible?
Thank you.
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Do we really need to reboot to add a hot spare?
We've got an R420 server with iDrac 7 Enterprise. The four disks are configured in Raid5, and one went faulty. We powered off, replaced the disk and powered up. iDrac showed the new disk as "Ready" but did not use it to rebuild the array. In iDrac, under Storage > Manage virtual drives we then added the new disk as a hot spare for the virtual drive. iDrac said this would be done on next reboot, so we rebooted and the virtual drive started rebuilding. All solved.
My only question is whether it's really necessary to reboot just to assign a hot spare? I have used LSI adaptors in the past and pretty sure they didn't require it and I asked colleagues and they said their IBM servers don't require it and were surprised that my Dell did.
Is there any way to manage the Raid without rebooting? Dell support told us everything needs to be done through the Raid Bios, they weren't even aware that iDrac now has some options to manage the raid. Dell support also suggested installing OpenManager, and they said there is a version that would work on our ESXi operating system. Maybe that's the way to go?
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Dell 1950 Individual C & D Drives
I'm new on this area. With some 1950 servers, I'm able to setup both drives C and D, others I have C and D together due to RAID configuration. Could someone please clarify the technical difference so I could buy the right server for my application?. I need to see both drives.
Thank you
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R620 + PERC H310 Mini with 12Gbps SSD drives
I wanted to know if 12Gbps SAS SSD Sandisk SXKLTK drives (Dell Certified) will work with R620 on a PERC H310 mini card. We are not setting up raid currently and we are in favor of purchasing these drives because they are futureproof (Will switch these drives to R630 in the future).
I am aware that H310 only supports 6Gbps SAS drives. I don't mind the 12Gbps drives running at 6Gbps speed. I just want a confirmation weather they will work or not. I reached out to Sandisk and they said the drives were backwards compatible and will negotiate at 6gbps on older controllers. I wanted a confirmation from Dell.
Thanks.
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Repartition On Mirrored Array
I am working on a T410 server with a 2x1TB mirrored array. I need to increase the size of the OS partition(currently 40GB) on a live server without a reformat. This is a hospital and the window for change is limited(2 hours tomorrow) due to constant use. Need best way to do this as the array was set up by Dell and not myself ASAP. Thanks for any asistance.
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Replace Faulty HDD PowerEdgeR320 PercH310 RAID1
How to replace faulty HDD (blinking green & amber LED) in RAID1 configuration (PowerEdgeR320 Server - PercH310)
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2 disks yellow flagged - one foreign
We had a server crash yesterday and the server paused at the PERC controller POST with a Press Any Key prompt.
The server then booted ok, but the Physical disks on the Perc H710 Mini controller are showing 2 disks with yellow warnings.
The top disk is showing as Foreign and the 2nd disk is flagged yellow but is online. The 2nd disk was replaced a couple of weeks ago and did rebuild fine - you can see it is a different firmware revision.
What's going on here - I'm nervous of resetting the Foreign flag - have I just been unlucky and had a 2nd disk fail?
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PowerEdge R530 - Expanding Raid 5 by adding disks
I have a PowerEdge R530 with Perc H330 mini with currently 3, 300GB sas hard drives configured as one virtual disk. VMWare ESXi 6 is installed with a couple virtual machines running and I am out of room. I have installed an addition 3 of the exact same hard drives and would like to expand the virtual disk with 2 of the drives and set the other as a hot spare. Using OMSA I set the hot spare easily, however before I reconfigure the virtual disk, please let me know if I am doing it correctly.
From within OMSA,
1) select my virtual disk and select "reconfigure" and execute
2) check the two additional drives to add to the virtual disk and press continue (step 1 of 3)
3) switch raid level from the default Raid-0 to the current and desired RAID-5 and press continue (step 2 of 3)
4) verify settings and press finish (step 3 of 3)
I can do this without shutting down my VM's right? This will not destroy my data will it? I have backup, but would prefer not to have to restore.
Thank you for confirming or pointing out my mistakes ahead of time.
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RAID1 degraded after installing ESXi 5.5
I have DELL PowerEdge T100 ii Server
i configured RAID1 (2x HDD 500GB)
When i install ESXi5.5, it see two hard disk not as one hard, mean that caccelling RAID
i checked raid controller, it will RAID 1 degraded after install esxi
i need ESXi work on RAID1 successfully
Thanks
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Dell PowerEdge 2800 - Multiple HDD Failure
We have a PE 2800 with PERC4 - RAID 5. One of the hard drives failed (drive 1 - 2nd drive of the three in the array), so we obtained a replacement drive, powered the system down, inserted the new drive, and rebooted the server. Expecting then to have the system see the new drive and start a rebuild of the array, or knowing that we may have to manually rebuild the array. However...upon the reboot, the first drive (drive 0) in the array now blinks amber and says it has failed and therefore the array is not up. Saw several posts stating to put original bad drive back in so that the original configuration was in place as the "newly' bad drive may not really be bad. Then bring the server up and go into PERC4 utility and force the "newly" bad drive on line, only after checking to make sure it has no media errors. Indeed drive 0 of the array does not have any media errors, so we forced it on line in the utility, but upon rebooting, it still says that the drive is bad.
Any assistance/guidance/experience anyone may have with this or a similar experience would be most welcome. Thank you in advance.
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Dell R720 with PERC H710P Mini Repeating Unexpected Sense for all Paths
All,
My server is running Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. I noticed that my VM's shutdown and while checking the logs I see a lot of unexpected sense errors coming into Windows and iDRAC Alert log. I'm thinking this is what could have caused the server to shutdown all VM's. The unexpected sense errors are not complaining about a single PD but seem to be bouncing around through all of the PD's. The errors come in non-stop when Windows is running. (See attached Alert Screenshot)
I have deleted the both arrays and ran a full initialization on them. My next steps are to remove the 2nd 10 disk array and see if the errors go away.
I have the latest firmware (21.3.2-0005) and latest drivers (6.805.01.00). The hard drives also have the latest firmware. We tried a new controller card, we also tried swapping chassis (moving cpu, disks).
I have a R720 with 2 - 120 GB Samsung Evo 850 and 10 - 500 GB Samsung Evo 850's.
The 2 - 120's are in a raid 1 and the rest are in a raid 10.
Any ideas??
Thanks!
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export PERC raid/array configuration on dellPE2950
is there any way to backup or export the raid configuration. thanks
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