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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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JBOD with PERC H810

I'm wondering if anybody has ever used Dell storage products like the MD3220 array in a JBOD configuration. From what I can tell only perc h810 will work for external JBOD but that is not terribly specific, and for some reason I couldn't find many…
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Replacing a failed and degraded virtual disk on Dell T110 II RAID 1 PERC S300

We have a Dell T110 II server, factory installed with Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Standard x64 Edition, running PERC S300 RAID Controller (1068E HBA). It came installed with RAID 1 on the 500GB operating system disk. We've since added another 1TB…
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"Repair your computer" option missing when loading PERC drivers on Windows 2008 R2 install

I've got a Dell T310 server for which we have made volume backups of the system drive with Windows Backup. I'm trying to restore one of these, which means I need to boot from the Windows install CD. I also know I need to load the PERC storage…
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Split a Dell PERC 6/i RAID-1 mirror to temporarily to add additional storage

I need to tidy some disk partitions in Windows Server 2012, but don't have enough storage space, and all drive bays are in use. I'd like to split the mirror, use one of the disks as temporary storage while I perform disk maintenance, then put the…
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Windows 2003 Server R2 system partition full - move and/or expand

PROBLEM: My System (C:) and Data (D:) partitions are full and I need to expand them or move them to larger drives. SPECS: Dell PowerEdge 2900 server Adaptec 39320A SCSI adapters Dell Perc 5/i RAID controller 3 Maxtor 10K RPM 73GB serial attached…
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dell SNMP raid disk no data

I'm trying to monitor data with SNMP for disks in a raid attached to some servers. From what I understand the raid is configured with PERC and PERC does have a MIB associated with it. I've downloaded PERC.mib and AryMgr.mib and have tried to browse…
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Dell OMSA Storage Auto Patrol Read Schedule

My Dell servers with Perc H700 Controller are automatically performing periodic Patrol Reads. Is there a way to set schedule for these checks?
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RAID 5 Array A00-01 is "optimal" but not showing when I boot from my RAID 1 Array A00-00 OS

This server was originally setup with RAID 1 mirrored drives for the C:\ primary partition where the Operating System was installed. And a RAID 5 array with 3 drives for the data partitions. The C: drive ran for the last year with little or no…
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Replacing Hard drives/RAID array Dell Poweredge 2900

I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 that I'm upgrading from 4x SATA 250GB Drives in a RAID 5 situation to 2x SATA 1TB Drives in a RAID 1 situation. The box is running Windows Server 2003, with a PERC5/i controller card. As far as I can tell without too…
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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) DAS. (My boss basically allocates me no…
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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 in the following configuration 2x500GB in RAID…
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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 current read/write/cache policies are as…
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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 losing data? Thanks :]
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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 using MegaRAID, in doing so I stupidly added the final…
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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 the current disks are all physical volumes. I…
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