I just bought this server refurbished.
I installed linux on this and ended up corrupting its recovery disk which has windows 2012 server.
I want to remove linux and install windows 2012 again any idea how to do that? I do have license tag on the machine.
Thanks,
Sandip
Greetings,
I am trying to get a H710 controller installed into an R320 chassis, but ran into a couple issues. Where the device plugs in on the right hand side it seems to need a slim line IO plate but one was not included with the card and will not secure to the rear of the chassis properly. Does anyone know how to obtain one?
Also with the unit going in on that side, the SAS cabling does not reach that far over. he cabling that is currently in the case has a SAS A label on the connector that goes into the motherboard and also does not fit the raid card. Is there any additional cable harnesses or extensions that are available? T
Thanks in advance
I've just found an "affordable" 'lease-return' Power Edge R320 for an acceptable cost, and I'd like to consider "re-building" this into a relatively capable "VM" host machine (what my assistant is most often referring to as a 'hypervisor'...). But I want to run Proxmox (Linux) on it and for this, I'd want to create a hardware RAID setup to (hopefully) obtain the best possible performance from the 2TB W/D SATA-3 6GB/s hard disks I'd like to install in this. Apparently the original hardware did NOT include a hardware RAID setup, so I need to find and obtain a true hardware controller (no doubt, this little-bitty 1U rack system originally had just PERC S110 software RAID under Windows Server). But I'm having a difficult time understanding WHICH RAID controller 'card' that I might require.. As I believe I understand it, the PERC H310 "mini-mono" card is the 'value' level hardware RAID controller that is installed into the onboard 'internal storage' connector (which I presume would then allow use of the "SAS A" and/or "SAS B" connector, correct?) I also believe the PERC H330 "mini-mono' is a somewhat 'better' RAID card that is also 'recommended' for this little guy ... Also correct? Right now, I can find both on Ebay at an affordable cost, but knowing my capacity to purchase the absolute WRONG thing, I'm here "seeking understanding" before I make the purchase. However... if I'm all wrong on this, what suggestions might anyone have that would allow a true 'hardware RAID' at an "affordable cost"? Not made of bucks here, y'all, but I would like to "tune this bad boy up" a bit, if it is at all possible... Thanks in advance for the help anyone might suggest...
My PowerEdge R710 server has Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise installed with license. And I want to update everything i.e., the BIOS, all the firmwares, etc and reinstall Windows Server 2008 or 2012. I have questions:
1. What do I do to reset everything to factory defaults before I update anything? Is there any Dell server software for this? I find the 3GB Recovery partition on the hard drive. When I reinstall Windows 2008, do I have to keep this partition?
2. I do not have the setup & installation DVD. Can I download all the latest softwares from Dell?
3. I don't think the R710 originally came with a physical Windows DVD. Then what do I do to reinstall the operating system? I do have separate Windows Server 2008/2012 images with licenses, so this is virtually not a real issue, but I am just curious.
My T100 is nearly 8 years old and even though it's still running fine, I would like to know which RAID 1 add-on card is a natural upgrade from the SAS 6IR? Is it the PERC S130? I don't need anything fancy, just a basic RAID 1 for my small business server. Thank you.
Greetings Everyone, I desire to repair a PowerEdge 2850 Server with a "no boot device available" message. We cannot boot to the Windows 2000 Server desktop due to no boot device available. Macrium Diagnostics reveal: RAID Controller VEN_1028 DEV_0013 HDC No driver loaded.The original Win2K emergency disks are unavailable, as are the original install and drivers CDs that came with the PE2850 server in 2006, and Dell offers no assistance since the contract has expired.
4 - SCSI HDDs in a PERC 4e/Di RAID 5 configuration.
I want to remove the failed drive, replace it with a new drive, but can't get rid of the failed one in the array. However, the main problem is fixing the no boot device availability. I've been searching literally for 4 weeks for the drivers needed for the PERC 4e/Di (5B2D). But the driver diskette does not install with the < F6 > and later the < S > functions within the Win2K installation. I've also used OpenManage 5.2 to no avail. The drivers were supposed to be .zip, but they can .exe from Dell's download site. All the other driver apps found run under Windows, BUT... we can't boot to Windows 2000 Server to run the repairs. I would think the MBR has challenges and/or the ntldr, boot.ini and ntdect files are not longer there or corrupted.
Kindly provide a sense of direction to
Thanks Much,
Rob
I need to update my INTEL SSDSC2BB160G4T from firmware version DL13 to DL16.
When trying to create a bootable ISO CD with Nautilus A16 tool it shows an error: "Image creation error: 51"
How to resolve this ?
I also tried booting old Nautilus utility A49, but it says my firmware is up to date since there no DL16 in that version. Can you release A50 ?
I have a Poweredge R320 server with a raid controller Perc H310mini. The server has 8x500GB disks in a raid 5 array. I have 2 partitions setup on this array. The first partition is a 100GB (formatted as MBR) for the OS. The second partition is a 3TB (formatted as GPT) partition.
I needed to replace the drives, so now there are 8x1TB drives in the system. I replaced each disk one at a time and let the array rebuild to the 500GB size.
Now that all the disks are replaced. I want to expand the array to see the extra space with the new drives. When I use OSMA and go to virtual disk the expand option is not there. Did I miss a step? Or is this not supported?
Thanks for the help.
Hello there,
I would like to know how to use or install the (integrated) RAID Controller in a PowerEdge T620 server. In the Lifecycle Controller, I get the error code STOR0502, asking for a reinstall of the controller. I have three hard disks installed and the IDRAC interface does not seem to even recognise them, although I have a VMWare ESXi 5.5 system installed and running.
Thank you.
I have a now degraded RAID 5 in a PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC 6/i. It was originally 5 SATA drives in bays 0,1,2,3,7. Bay 2 had a flashing amber for what I understand is a drive failed.
I acquired a replacement drive and hot swapped it into the failed bay (as I believe have once before in the past when under warranty) but it didn't seem to take. I lacked Openmanage and ended up feeling the need to restart in order to use the BIOs utility to declare it a spare. It then appeared to begin to rebuild but didn't actually finish. I tried it again and same issue where it brought the drive offline. The drive carrier light is a green>off>amber>off which when I look up looks to me to be "Drive being spun down by user request or other non-failure condition". The utilities also list the drive as offline at this point.
I assumed the replacement drive I had was a dud so I acquired a different replacement drive but get the same issue. They both fail consistently after 9% rebuild so I'm skeptical the second is coincidentally a dud unless there is some significance to 10% being a certain transition point in the process and not simply 10% of the data copied. I find it particularly frustrating because I have no feedback for what it is doing. It just changes from rebuild to taking the drive offline.
I have tried rebuild from both OpenManage (installed after the initial failure) and the BIOs. Both going from rebuilding to taking the drive offline. I have also tried rebuilding in a different bay. The firmware and driver on the PERC 6/i are current. The Dell Online Diagnostic software tests comes back with the battery requiring replacement and nothing else.
This is outside of my knowledge so it's possible I'm doing or have done something wrong (in addition to restarting which I couldn't figure out a way around). I'm rather lost at this point. Is there something else I should be checking? Should I buy a third replacement drive to try? If it actually thinks the drive is bad, isn't a "predicted failure" error more normal? Could it be related to the lack of battery and using write-through over write-back?
Hello Everyone,
I am newbie here, need some advise and solve some problem.
i use Dell PowerEdge T320 with Perch H310 to control Raid, i use Raid - 5 with 4 HD.
in my case one of my HD is blinking fault and blue screen, try to rebooting but OS don't appear, i install Windows server 2008 R2.
anyone can help me? any solution for this case? cause i need it soon.
Thanks before
OK, so here is the chronology of the events that led to several sleepless nights, packed with stress and tension, numerous walks down to the server room, discussions, planning, tearing up plans, planning again, and so on.
Here is the basic system description:
System: Dell PowerEdge 720
Raid Controller: PERC H710P Mini
8 Drives in raid 5 (0-7) (1.818 TB SATA HDD WD2000FYYX)
(Raid 5 because we had to sacrifice safety for space… I know!)
Symptoms:
Can’t remember if we noticed any other symptoms, but after rebooting most of our production VMs, which did not produced any positive results, we noticed that there are some Xen updates, so we decided, while we think about how to proceed, to reboot Xen. And that is when this whole thing started:
We started shutdown procedure, turning off one VM at time. It was working fine until we sent shutdown command to LastOne. After 15 minutes it was still not going down, so we tried forced shutdown that did not worked either.
At this point, we became pretty suspicious, because we had attacks in the past that we had to deal with, so we decided to go down to the server room and get on the machine and check it out. Turns out it was smart move as we realized that two out of eight drives blink green / amber – predictive failure (call them disk1 and disk6).
Getting right on the machine we still could not shut down the VM! We were getting messages that Xen could not normally shutdown VM and is attempting to force shutdown VM and then it tries again. So it was stuck in a loop. We did one thing we could there, we did hard shutdown on the server…
Rebooted it into Ctrl+R mode (Raid Controller), and put disk1 offline and swapped it with one spare we had (let’s call it OnlySpare). Looking at the Raid Controller, we realized that it starts rebuild automatically, so we were happy. Once we realized it changed from 0% to 1% we got out and went upstairs. When we tried to check it out, we realized that the Xen was in read only mode (or so it was saying). Went down stairs, and what we saw was an image from out of ***:
OnlySpare was blinking green / amber / off - 3s each (Drive being spun down by user request or other non-failure condition.), and disk 6 was flashing amber (Drive has failed.)
And there was nothing else we could do. It was dead. We killed it. Or at least we felt like we did!
Well, we decided to try everything we can to recover it, so we came up with a plan.
Current situation:
Disk1 – predictive failure
Disk6 – failed
OnlySpare – good spare
(Oh, and just a side note: If you try to find a 2TB drive in Bosnia and Herzegovina, during weekend, and especially looking for enterprise grade, you will fail miserably)
So we came up with a plan:
Plan 1:
Took OnlySpare and Disk6, tested Disk6 and since it was readable, used dc3dd to make image out of it to OnlySpare. Took A LOONG time to do it though.
We used all of that time to research online, cry, headbanging, pull our hair, kick the server, curse Dell, WD, Dell and WD, etc.
Once completed, we took it downstairs and put original disk1 in its slot, and OnlySpare as image of disk6 in the slot of disk6.
Raid Controller did not recognized it. It recognized it as a new drive and could not do anything with it.
We've been told that this is not doable, as raid controllers also memorize data from disk firmware, but we at least had data preserved, or we thought so.
Now we started panicking. Stopped for a moment and came up with another plan.
Current situation:
Disk1 – predictive failure
Disk6 – failed
OnlySpare – dd image of disk6 (useless)
Plan 2:
We decided, since we had disk1 not totally dead, to put it back in, take disk6 out and replace it with OnlySpare and try to rebuild it as a brand new drive in slot of disk6. Thought was that it would recognize raid and rebuild OnlySpare as Disk6.
Once the disks were in, it actually recognized the Raid (we did 'import foreign configuration'), and automatically started to rebuild, but only seconds later, disk1 reported that it failed!!!
First thought was, why me???
So I guess this plan did not work
Current situation:
Disk1 – failed
Disk6 – failed
OnlySpare – dd image of disk6 (useless)
Plan 3 (already desperate):
Put Disk1 in disk6 slot and OnlySpare in slot of disk1…
I know, I know, failed.
After we ran out of possible combinations, logical and ones not so logical, we thought about trying one of the more radical suggestions we found online, but one that showed most success.
Plan n:
Take electronics from both disk1 and disk6 and switch them. We’ve been told it might work if it is an electronics that failed, and drives are IDENTICAL. Well our drives were.
While looking for a screwdriver to unscrew boards from the drives, we put original drives into their slots (disk1 and disk6). Imported foreign configuration, and…
*** Xen started to boot normally, like nothing happened!
Of course, drives started reporting predictive failure almost immediately, but we were already up stairs on our machines making backups of all of the VMs configurations…
The rest of the story is all happy end, but another thing was bugging me:
How come this whole thing happened?
Two drive with predictive failure, and once one is replaced, other one fails?
So I did ‘little’ research on this, and found following:
Raid Controller, checks drives for physical issues and once it starts finding bad sectors on drive it registers it and writes information about it in its log. Information that was in that bad sector probably does not get rewritten somewhere else, as in raid it already exists somewhere else on one of the other drives? This is my presumption as it would explain following. So, once the number of bad sectors on one physical drive reaches certain threshold, S.M.A.R.T. on Raid Controller issues predictive failure warning. And in most of the cases it is ok, as information missing from bad sectors is readable somewhere else. You replace one drive and it gets rebuilt, and that is it.
In our case, seems to me, we had number of bad sectors on two disks that existed only on another drive with predictive failure. So once we removed one, it could not rebuild it as it was missing information about locations of data on other drive. So the other drive became unreadable and failed. This would explain why both drives were shown as failed once the other one was removed. And it would also explain why it booted normally once we returned original setup after all of the things we tried.
I guess the odds for something like this are like winning the lottery in USA, UK, EU, Argentina and Russia at the same time! Or at least it feels that way.
So, as a lesson learned, we went to raid 6, told management to deal with it, and now doing more close monitoring of physical devices…
Hope this someone finds useful…
I've been looking for the better part of 3 hours trying to figure out how to add just a simple stand alone SCSI drive to my system. Currently have 2 500GB drives in Raid 1 - and want to leave it that way. Can't I simply plug in a disk or two into the open bays on the front, hit CTRL-R and enter the S110 setup screen and set up virtual disks? Seems that easy, except the physical disks don't show up for me to create virtual disks. I know I'm missing something here...
This is what I purchased for this purpose :
Even when I boot the server, I don't even get a green light blink on the new drive - like it doesn't even get power.
I would really like to add 2 drives and make an additional Raid 1 setup, but again, it seems like the hard drives aren't even powering up.
Any ideas ?
So,
I was onsite to replace a degraded HD in a PowerEdge 2650. WindowsDisk 0 (RAID 1). The wrong drive (the good drive) was identified and pulled. The system immediately went down (of course). It was not until this point that I realized it was the wrong drive. I reseated the drive and replaced the degraded drive (Drive 1) with the replacement drive.
Now when I attempted to boot, I get the error message Container 0 in Critical state. When I go into PERC 3, it shows that virtual disk 0 RAID 1 is missing a drive. I have initialized the new disk.
I understand that I initially removed the container master disk. The OS will not boot.
How do I resolve this issue?
Regards,
Few day ago I have bought new T20 and have found WD Blue (WD10EZEX) HDD inside. I was surprised and upset, as I do not accept this model as reliable server storage. Western Digital seems to have the same opinion and in its product sheet declares this HD as not recommended for business critical RAID.
I have asked the community about supported drives for T20 and got reply that the only 1TB WD supported is WD Black (WD1000XL).
However the local Dell support declared, that WD Blue is supported for T20. I tried to order two new Dell certified "server HDs" and got two more pieces of sh... eh, WD Blue.
Going to order unsupported but reliable WD RE drives.
***? It seems that client's trust is not worth US $20 for Dell...
Ciao,
a un nostro server é rotto un Harddisk.
600GB, SAS 6Gbps, 3.5-in, 15K RPM Hard Drive (Hot-Plug)
Seagate ST3600057SS
Mi potete fare una offerta?
Distiniti saluti
Computerspeed
Good Day,
i have a poweredge 720 with perc 710 raid 5. Original disk Dell cheetah 15k.7 (Seagate ST3600057SS).
I had a predicted disk failure and was shipped a replacment disk which is a 2.5 disk in enclosure item #WPJY9. This disk is 600 GB 15 k like the original.
Inserted disk into bay and it appears to have seated properly, got a good solid "click" when securing the latch.
However, I have no LED on the disk and it does not appear in iDrac.
?
Hi
I recently bought a used PowerEdge R710. Very nice machine.
It has a PERC 6/i in it. Now, I plan to use this server as a Freenas box, so that card isn't ideal. I did some research and found that the SAS 6/ir should be compatible and is better suited for this purpose.
So I ordered the card, but it doesn't seem to work. When I replace the PERC with the SAS 6/ir in the internal storage slot, The system won't boot, I get the message:
PCIe training error: integrated RAID
System halted!
If I plug it into a different PCIe slot it just doesn't recognize the card.
I already tried 2 cards, both with the same problem. One was a 0JW063 and the other one a 0YK838.
I am out of ideas here. Those cards should be compatible, right? Maybe I have 2 dead cards, but that seems very unlikely to me?
I hope someone can help me here.
Thanks already
My problem now I can't select to make raid 5,acceptable choose raid 0 and 1 with 2 hd even connect 3 hd .
