PERC is a Dell branded RAID card.
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Managing PERC 6/i and P800 in the same system under CentOS
I have a CentOS/Xen VM server running on a PE T710 with a PERC 6/i, which has a 6 disk RAID 10 + 1 hot spare. The chassis only holds 8 3.5" disks, and so I'm looking for an aftermarket (used/eBay) ...
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Dell PERC H700 and 8 disk slots : what are my options to increase disk fault tolerance?
We've got a Dell PowerEdge T510 which has 8 disk slots in the front. It is currently utilising 6 of these slots, and the disks are controlled by a PERC H700 controller. The disks are currently running ...
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Dell Perc 4/DC controller - managing it from Windows 7 on a not dell workstation? [closed]
I've installed a Perc 4DC on a non dell workstation with windows 7. I have
no issues with the drivers (used the 2003 ones), but I'm not sure what kind
of disk management tool I could and should ...
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Can I extend RAID5 or RAID0 array?
Setup:
Dell PowerEdge 1950 with Perc 6/E Expansion Controller
Dell PowerVault MD1000 (15 hard drive slot)
I want to start with 3 hard drive and later add some hard drive. Is it possible?
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Reconstruct deleted virtual disk in PERC 710 RAID Array
Today, I did the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life. I have a PowerEdge server with a PERC 710 RAID controller. I had 4 drives in RAID 5 configuration (1 2.7 TB Virtual Disk) and I wanted to ...
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Resize virtual disk raid 0 MD1000 Perc 5/e
I've created virtual disk raid 0 of total size 2TB (one physical hdd), what if I will want to add next 2TB hdd into my storage dell powervault MD1000? Can I resize my existing virtual disk without ...
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Dell Perc5/E not recognized in Dell Poweredge 1950
I'have ordered new Dell Perc5/E and new PCIe risers to my server Dell Poweredge 1950 III. I am trying to connect MD1000 to the server, but the server does not recognize Perc5/E, nothing to see in boot ...
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Dell PowerEdge R510 SATA drives appearing as SAS
I have a Dell PowerEdge R510 with the following:
PERC H700
2 x 500GB cabled SATA drives (RAID 1)
6 x 3 TB SAS hot swap drives (5 in RAID 6)
I was testing an online expansion of the RAID array ...
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PERC - Create RAID1 from single drive without losing data
I have a PowerEdge 2950. I have one 1TB drive with critical data on it that has been running alone for months, and I want to add a second 1TB drive and make a RAID1 out of these 2 drives, but without ...
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Dell Perc5/E and Poweredge 1950 PCI-X
Today I have been to my datacenter and could not put Perc5/E into PCI-X card, there is like 0,5mm difference in card length, so physically it does not fit.
Do I need PCIe for this Perc?
Btw. when ...
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Beeping on Dell Poweredge Server (RAID Fault)
I've a Dell Poweredge 2850 that is beeping continuously - 2s beeps with 1s intervals. I'm sure this is because of a degraded RAID - but there's nothing in the Dell OMSA to say so. In fact, the PERC ...
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MD1000 + PERC 5/E SATA III support? Interposer on sata?
Does Dell MD1000 + perc5/e support SATA 3 HDDs? Will I need interposer for my tray/caddy to support sata II/III hdds?
Thanks in advance!
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How can I keep an offline disk mirror with a PERC 6/i?
I have a server (Dell PowerEdge 2950) with a PERC 6/i and six disks. Two of the disks are in a RAID-1 with a third as a hot spare. I have been asked to make a copy of the RAID-1 data on one of the ...
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Dell Perc 6i raid5 array: replace drives and expand VD?
I have a Dell T300 with a Perc 6i, to which 3 500Gb drives are connected. The are assembled into a raid 5 ~1000Gb VD. This setup is working fine, however system is filling up and I would like to ...
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How to find if there is an expander in my controller
I have 2U PowerEdge R510 with PERC H700 Integrated and 8 installed disks, can someone tell me how to find if my disks are using the expander in the backplane or there are all directly attached to the ...
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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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smartctl not actually running self tests?
I want to run the smartctl self tests to check the health of the drives in my RAID array (PERC 5/i). The array is on sda and comprises six drives. I can check the status using
sudo smartctl ...
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New harddisc in RAID fails after only a few days
Last weekend I had to replace one harddisc in a RAID 1 on a PERC/5i controller because it reported it as failed.
After replacing the disc it worked for 5 days and then the controller started ...
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Replace RAID1 Disc - things to consider
One of my RAID controllers is complaining about a harddrive failure:
-- Controller informations --
-- ID | Model
c0 | PERC 5/i Adapter
-- Arrays informations --
-- ID | Type | Size | Status | ...
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Performance of unsupported 3TB drives
We recently purchased a number of 3TB drives, only to realize later it was for a server running a Perc 6i, and that >2TB drives are not supported. Based on the amount we paid though, the restocking ...
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Bad Blocks Exist in Virtual Device PERC H700 Integrated
I have a DELL server with PERC H700 Integrated controller. I've made RAID5 with 12 harddrives and the virtual device is in Optimal state, but I receive such errors under linux:
sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] ...
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Added drive to PERC6/i raid5 array instead of replacing - is there a way to fix this?
This is a 3 drive RAID5. The disk in slot 1 failed. After the disk was replaced, I ran:
MegaCli64 -LDRecon -Start -r5 -Add -PhysDrv[32:1] -L0 -a0
Obviously that was not the correct command as now ...
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Is it possible to install Windows Server 2012 on a Dell PowerEdge with PERC S100 card?
According to Dell's own website, the Windows Server 2012 media driver "inbox" does not contain drivers for the Perc S100 controller that is in a Dell PowerEdge T110 II server we'd like to evaluate ...
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RAID1 rebuild fails due to disk errors
Quick info: Dell R410 with 2x500GB drives in RAID1 on H700 Adapter
Recently one of drives in RAID1 array on server failed, lets call it Drive 0. RAID controller marked it as fault and put it offline. ...
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Can I flash a PCI-E device's Firmware in a VM if the VM has exclusive IOMMU access?
I have a PCI-E Dell Perc 6/i RAID card that I'd like to flash with the latest firmware. Apparently I need either a Redhat / Centos OS or Windows in order to flash the firmware, but I have a ...
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Dell Perc H700 accidentally zeroes large portion of virtual disk
I upgraded RAM in 2 of our R610 servers. (1 has 6-SSD RAID5, the other 6-HDD RAID10) Upon restarting, the Perc H700 controller reported 1 virtual disk as expected, but then the machine would not ...
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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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How to set up RAID 1 on Dell PERC S300 With Existing OS Install
We have a server that is being used in production, but it was not originally meant to. The main thing I want to add to it is a Dell PERC S300 RAID Card to have the main hard drive (Windows Server 2008 ...
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Reset MegaCLI error count
I have a system where MegaCli64 -PdList -a0 shows media errors on one disk. After investigating the errors, I've decided not to take any action for now. I'd like to reset the error count, so that ...
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Dell Poweredge 1950 with Perc 5i keeps losing raid config -> “Foreign Configuration Found”
The quick and dirty: the machine is a Dell Poweredge 1950, dual xeon quad cores, 8GB of ram, 2 2TB seagate SATAs in (supposed to be raid1) using a Perc 5i raid card. They are hot-swappable with a ...
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Very slow disk performance on Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ PERC 6/i running RAID 10
I recently set up a server running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server - it has 6 500 gb 7200RPM SATA drives setup in a RAID 10 config.
I am seeing extremely poor disk performance - the ...
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Install MegaCli to Monitor Perc 5/i in Nexentastor 3
I have a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i Raid controller that we've already installed Nexentastor 3 Community Edition on. We setup a raid-10 array that and put a ZFS pool on top of the hardware. As I ...
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Dell PERC 4 (PowerEdge 2850): Unresolved configuration mismatch between disks(s) and NVRAM
We had an extended power outage (almost four hours); now I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server which is giving me this error (from a PERC 4e/DI) on boot up:
All drives are listed in the PERC ...
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Expand PERC 6/i RAID 10 SSD array, or add new VD for SQL Server?
On a Dell R710 server running Window Server 2008 R2 there are currently 4 50GB SSDs in a RAID 10 array, and I'm adding 2 additional 50GB SSDs. This server runs SQL Server and not much else. If these ...
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Dell PERC 4/DC (PowerEdge 2850) and ZFS
I understand that ZFS prefers to have as much data about the drives as possible, and that the best thing to do is turn off RAID.
The hardware environment is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with PERC 4/DC 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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Resize NTFS System Partition on Perc 6/i RAID
I've inherited a Dell server that is running out of space on C:. I'd like to quickly and painlessly resize the C drive with partitioning software. However, the RAID card is causing me some troubles. ...
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dell PERC 6i monitoring utility from within VM guest?
I got a Dell PowerEdge 9500 which is running VMware ESXi 4.1. The server has a PERC 6i controller in it, and there are two RAID-5 volumes running. All the RAID config was done via the PERC 6i BIOS. ...
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Dell Perc 5/i battery replacement - how long until it registers as good?
So I replaced the battery for my Dell Perc 5/i controller since the machine had an error code that it needed to be replaced. I ordered the battery directly from dell based on the service code and ...
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Perc 4 Configuration - Drives not showing up
Hello I am trying to configure raid on a PERC 4 running in a PowerEdge 1850. When I go into the bios configuration for the raid controller the drives I have attached are not present. Specifically ...
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Upgrading Raid Card - import configuration - Perc 5
I am upgrading my Perc 5 to a Perc 5i (allegedly lets me have hot spares and power management). When I put the 5i card in and connect the drives, it does not recognise the previous RAID ...
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Using X25-E SSD on Dell R710 w/PERC H700
I noticed that StackExchange/ServerFault is using a Dell R710 with PERC H700 controller and Intel X25-E SSDs for a database server. We're trying to do the same thing!
We're currently running the ...
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VMware installation error on Dell PE R715
We have just purchased 2 x Dell Power Edge R715 with the PERC H700 raid contoller, each machine has 6 x 300GB SAS drives.
I have set 2 drives up in raid 0 and 4 drives in raid 10 on each machine, but ...
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Dell Poweredge 1850 Raid setup
I have a Dell PE 1850 that I am trying to get RAID setup on. During boot the system sees two hard drives at HBA 0 and 1 but then when it prompts me for Raid setup press Ctl-M and I do and enter the ...
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Can I do a Raid 5 with a SAS6i/R?
I have a PowerEdge 2970 server with a:
SAS6i/R Integrated Controller for PowerEdge 2950/2970, x6 Backplane
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How to over-provision an Intel SSD RAID Array via the Dell H700 PERC RAID Controller
I would like to set up a RAID10 array of 6 Intel SSD 320 SSDs, but over-provision them to enhance their performance and duration as per this PDF:
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How do I migrate disks from one Dell PE 2850 to another?
I had a Dell PE 2850 die and I need to move its SCSI disks over to another PE 2850. These disks were in RAID1. I tried moving them over and just hoping the PERC would do the right thing, but it ...
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Replace faulty Dell PERC 5/i controller without losing data
Is it possible to replace a 5/i controller without losing the data on the array? Can I import this as a foreign configuration? Any "gotchas" or tips to make this smoother?
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R710 & MD1220 PERC questions
I'm purchasing a new database server (R710) with a direct attached storage (MD1220) device behind it. I'm not up to date on the latest RAID technologies and needed some advice. The MD1220 I've ...
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Adding a drive to a Dell Poweredge 2950
I'm trying to add a drive to a dell poweredge 2950 running RedHat, which already has two drives in RAID 1. The third drive is intended to be separate and without RAID. I've added a virtual drive ...
