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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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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 http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/cables/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=corp&sku=330-2277 I just bought 3 hard drives that I plan to…
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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 configured comes with the PERC H800 controller. Do I…
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Does the PERC 5/i Integrated controller support SATA II/III?

I have a refurb 2950 with a PERC 5/i Integrated controller. Currently, there are 4x 3.5" SAS drives in use, with two slots available. I want to add two SSDs (using a 3.5" ICY dock) in RAID1 in the extra slots. Are SATA II (or III) SSDs compatible…
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Do I have to buy a SAS hd from Dell to work with a PERC 5 in PE1950

Is it true that for SAS hd to work with a PERC 5 controller it must have a special firmware on it put in by Dell which forces you to buy a hd only from them. The hd that came with the server is a Seagate Cheetah 15K.5, but I don't know if its being…
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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?
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Using udev to create a character device based on a driver being loaded

I'm in the process of setting up RAID monitoring for a number of Dell servers that use the PERC 6i integrated card. We're using Nagios at present and the check_megasasctl plugin seems to fit the bill. However, the plugin relies upon the existence…
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Is it possible to set up R730xd split zoning with HBA330 + PERC rather than 2x PERC?

For an r730xd configured with split zoning backplane (not the flex bay, im talking a 4/20 split zoning of the main backplane with the flex zone option) is it a supported configuration to use (for example) a mini HBA330 and a PCIe H730 rather than 2x…
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Perc H740P: raid5 volume split into two foreign configurations, cannot import

After a power supply replacement we had a cabling issue which caused some disks to be missing, after debugging and fixing this in the BIOS, on the first boot, the preexisting raid5 volume was split into two foreign configurations - one contained 5…
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RAID Recommendation Request: 2x RAID5 arrays, 1 Large RAID5, RAID10?

I just ordered a new PowerEdge R650 which will be the primary server for our company. It will run HyperV with 10 - 12 virtuals on it, mostly Windows but some Ubuntu. All the standards: domain controller, file server, web server, Exchange (hybrid so…
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Dell Power Edge R940 RAID Failure: the foreign configuration cannot be imported since the configuration is not complete

Dell Power Edge R940 RAID 5 Array BIOS version 2.3.10 PERC H740P Adapter Some of our guys pulled of all of our disks, one by one from the server while it`s worked, to rewrite theirs serial numbers. Now UEFI RAID configuration utility shows that 8 of…
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After replacing PERC H310 with PERC H710P the Dell BIOS (and Ubuntu installer) refuses to recognize any (non-raid) physical drives

We had a H310 Mini Mono controller in a completely non-raid configuration and had it replaced with a H710P controller. The controller is installed in a Dell Poweredge r620 system. We have 4 drives attached in a non-raid configuration and the new…
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Iowait on single HDD drive slows/blocks operations on all other (SSD) drives on a DELL R620 w/ PERC H310 Mini Mono controller

As the Dell forums are a veritable disaster I'm trying here in case somebody has some hints for me here :) We have a system with 3 drives: SSD for the OS SSD containing a ZFS pool backing LXD containers A "backup" storage HDD drive The system is…
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How to swap out all hard drives with new hard drives for a Dell R610 Server

We need to rebuild our Dell R610 servers by swapping out all the hard drives with new hard drives that have restored Windows backups on them. Our tentative plan to accomplish this is to use an offline test server for the builds of the new hard…
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Can a HP P2000 G3 SAN with SAS controller direct connect to a Dell PowerEdge Server with a Dell brand HBA

I am building a home rig and have recently acquired an HP P2000 G3 SAN with SAS controllers. I appreciate these are supposed to connect into a DL380 G7 or G8 with the HP branded SAS interface card (sc08e) but I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 server. I'm…
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How do I find the Dell controller and pdisk number given a serial number?

I need to blink a drive that I found out had SMART errors using smartmontools. I have omconfig installed and it looks like it can be used for blinking LEDs, but I don't know how to find the controller and pdisk number it needs As an alternative, I…
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