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What RAID policies should be used for a XenServer host?
I have a server with a PERC6/i card and a RAID-10 array running XenServer 6.1 with 6x VMs, one of which is SBS 2008 and the rest are a mix of file server, video-on-demand and SQL database server.
The ...
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Insert hot-swappable disks into a running server? [closed]
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC 6/i card and 4 HDDs running a single RAID-10 array. I want to add an additional 4 HDDs into the server and create a new RAID-10 array on those disks, without ...
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Online expansion PERC700 RAID6 server
I have a Dell PowerEdge r510, with 5 HDDs in a RAID6 configuration. I'd like to add a 6th disk (and, in the future, more) to grow the hardware RAID configuration. I have a logical volume, in which ...
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Can a PERC H700 controller card recognize the full capacity of 4TB drives?
For example if I go to create a new virtual disk in Dell OpenManage Server will it see the full capacity of the physical drive? I know it's supposed to be able to use a full 3TB drive but I can not ...
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Bypass perc s300 on R210 II
Trying to install esxi on a Dell R210 II. This is an older machine and as such has Perc S300 controller. Apparently, this controller is only compatible with windows systems and there is no way to ...
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Virtual Disk Degraded
There is a physical DC with a Raid 1 Mirror, 2 Physical Disks, 500GB each. Dell Server Administrator is installed on the DC, and is reporting both physical disks are fine, online, in a good state etc. ...
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PERC 5 RAID disk with foreign data
I have a RAID array built with 5 SAS drives (RAID 5).
I finally got in the last drive the other day, and, not surprisingly, it has some foreign config on it from the last array it was part of.
So I ...
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PERC 6/i will not find my SATA drives
I got a PERC 6/i for our build-system machine running ESXi 5.0update1. The hardware is a MSI X79A-GD65 with Intel X79 chipset, Extreme i7 CPU. I also got a SFF8484->4xSATA cable and connected it to 4 ...
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Virtual Disk Service (VDS) shuts down every three days on Server 2008 R2
Out of many servers all running Server 2008 R2 we have one where the VDS shuts down exactly every three days. The only way to resolve this is to reboot the machine. I have looked in the event logs and ...
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What is the max supported number of SATA devices (using cable adapters) on a Dell SAS 6/iR adapter?
I've got a Dell SAS 6/iR PCI-E adapter. I don't have a multiplier backplane. I'm planning on connecting SATA (non SAS) drives. If I buy cable adapters only (ones that split a SAS connector on the card ...
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Move OS from Software RAID (PERC S300) to Hardware RAID (PERC H700/H800)
A client of ours has a server running Windows that is installed on a PERC S300 software RAID.
We want to upgrade this to a larger capacity, so we are also upgrading to a hardware RAID card (PERC ...
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How to see information about hard drives in Windows Server 2003 using Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller
I just found out one of my servers are reporting hard drive error but I'm having problems extracting the information I want.
I've downloaded Acronis Drive Monitor so I could see hard drive health and ...
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installing linux on dell poweredge T 110 (perc s300)
We have a PERC S300 machine on which we want to install Ubuntu server (or in the worst case any linux distribution). Many web sites say that it is not possible to install linux on perc s300. However, ...
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How to rebuild RAID1 with missing drive on CERC?
I have a CERC/4i on a Dell 750 with two SATA drives. Due to a failing cooling system one of the disks stopped working. This has occurred twice before, so I am fairly confident the disk is not ...
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Replacing a PERC S300
The PERC S300 card that came with our Dell PowerEdge T110 servers is Windows only (see here). As a result, we're looking for an alternative that works under Linux.
We had planned to use software RAID ...
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ESXi 5.0 not showing RAID Health status (DELL PERC H200)
Hi we have installed VmWare ESXi 5.0 on brand new Dell T410 II.
Hypervisor sees storage but we are somehow missing the Health status in VI client.
We have PERC H200 in RAID 1.
We shortly tried the ...
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Dell OpenManage says my firmware is too old?
My Dell OpenManage Server Administrator application has an alert and is telling me my firmware (and driver?) versions are not high enough.
Should I be concerned / what issue might this cause?
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Poor read performance on Dell Perc H200 RAID10 with (4) 1TB 7200rpm 64MB drives
I am seeing only 50MB/s reads:
ensnare@box:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda
[sudo] password for ensnare:
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 4592 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2296.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk ...
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How many RAID “Channels” are on the PERC H700?
How many RAID "Channels" are on the PERC H700? 2? How would I verify which RAID is on which channel, and can I move them from one channel to another to balance the load per channel better?
