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PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) is a Dell-branded RAID controller that is manufactured by LSI.

PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) is a Dell-branded RAID controller that is manufactured by LSI.

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Is there anyway to manage HDD behind a Dell PERC H330 controller?

I recently took over ownership of a PowerEdge T330 in my company. With this server, I realize that the previous administrator did not install many of the drivers and/or management tools. I was tasked with maintaining the server as well as putting up…
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Confusion over RAID controllers for Dell R620 - what will work?

I have a (remotely located) R620 server with an H310 PERC controller (Described as "405-1110 : H310 Adapter, low profile", part R1DNH - What I've got is definitely a PCIE card. First question - What SAS connector interface is this? (According to…
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Dell R610, Perc 6/i SSD SATA drive slow speed

Before buying an SSD for the server I've tried to use SSD from my notebook: SSD disk (TRANSCEND 2.5" SSD370S 128 gb SATA III MLC TS128GSSD370S) has speed at my notebook 350-400 MB/s. I installed it to the Perc 6/i of R610. No any other disks in the…
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Powervault: MD1200 EMMs in an MD3200 enclosure?

I have two MD1200 EMMs (Dell part #3DJRJ). Can I use them in an MD3200 enclosure (which is available at an economical price than an MD1200 enclosure). If it would work, would I lose any functionality? This will be connected to a poweredge R910 using…
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Single disk failure on RAID10 making data unavailable

I have an odd situation here. I have a Dell R620 with the PERC H310 mini controller. There are 2 RAID arrays, a 2 disk mirror for the OS and a 6 disk RAID 10 for the DATA drive. When a single disk fails in the RAID10 my data becomes unavailable…
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Does R710 with PERC H700 auto rebuild single drive in raid 5?

I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 with PERC H700 Integrated BIOS Configuration Utility 2.02-0025.1 I have a raid 5 setup, and recently I noticed one of the hard drives blinking amber/green, which according to this documentation means the HDD was getting…
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Dell OMSA Predicted Failure column is missing

I have a PowerEdge R210 II with OMSA 8.4 installed. When I go to check the HD status, under Storage>PERC H200 Adapter>Virtual Disks, I have the two (dell) HD but only with the columns up to "Revision", the most important one, "Predicted Failure", is…
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windows-server-2003 missing logical drives after HBA SAS card was replaced

Both servers run windows-server-2003 x64 in a Active/Standby Microsoft Cluster with shared Disk Resources. Server1 Server2 Server1 suffered hardware issues needing HBA SAS card replaced. Disk Management no longer detects the shared logical drives on…
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Recover missing RAID 1 virtual drive on Dell Perc h330 controller

Ok, I added a couple of new HDDs to a Dell t430 server. I went to configure the new drives in a RAID1 array in the RAID controller. I think my mistake is I went in through "Lifecycle management" instead of through setup configuration. I told the…
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best raid level for backup server

I'm building a Centos 7 server to hold Postgres backups (using Barman). The Dell PowerEdge server has a Perc-8 controller (H710P), and there are 12each 3TB 7200rpm SAS drives available for a raid set to store the data. I'd use the Perc to do the…
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On Clean Server 2003 Install, Windows Cannot Find Any Drives

Apologies, as I'm sure this is a newbie-style question -- I just inherited a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with a couple of 73GB drives that I think I've configured for RAID 1 (using its PERC 4/Di RAID controller BIOS utility), but when I attempt to boot to a…
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How to map a virtual drive (RAID 0, PERC) to Linux

I have two different RAID arrays on a server. The first virtual drive is a RAID 10 with 4 disks and is already mapped to the OS. Now I have created another array with RAID 0 and one disk. Because the first virtual drive was created and mapped…
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Migrate/Extend raid1 volume to larger disks on Dell PowerEdge 2950 with perc 6/i - OMSA

I have a dell PowerEdge 2950 with perc 6/i running raid1, there were 2 250GB drives in which have been replaced (one at a time) with 1TB drives. So now I have the a virtual disk that is 232.25GB and 698.75GB (Free) that I would like to…
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PERC H200i "ignoring" some disks in RAID 10 resulting in slow IO

I have a Dell PE T710 with a PERC H200i that has a single array of 6x 500GB SATA disks +1 hot spare. This server (and its disks) have been running flawlessly for a few years. Today I began getting alerts for high IO wait times on that server. I…
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Creating a 2nd virtual disk with PERC H700

I currently have just 1 virtual disk set up with raid 0 for my OS, and would like to create a 2nd virtual disk for just storage. Will I have any data loss/issues with the existing virtual disk by creating a 2nd VD and adding just the new unassigned…
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