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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 a linux monitoring utility for Dell PERC H700?

I'm looking for a utility to monitor my RAID 5 setup, the card is a Dell PERC H700 with the following chipset: [root@example.net ~]# lspci -v|grep LSI 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05) The…
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ZFS on enterprise RAID pass-through, and ZFS on FreeBSD root

We've been running ZFS on top of a single hardware RAID on dell poweredge for years. I know most people are against this, but the snapshot/clone, compression and flexible partition of ZFS served us very well. Whenever a drive dies, a dell…
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How to get Newly Expanded RAID to show correct size in Debian

I recently expanded my RAID 5 Storage Virtual Drive from 6TB to 9TB. The Dell OMSA and the bios for the RAID controller both show I'm at 8382GB. Which is fine. But when get into Debian and poke around it's still only seeing the 6TB. When I do an…
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Trim support in Hardware RAID (Perc H700)

We are about to order a dell R610 with a H700. We were thinking of using 2 X Samsung 850 Pro 512Gb drives in RAID 1. The question is does the Perc H700 support TRIM in hardware RAID 1? The answers I have found from googling around seem to indicate…
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Reinserted a RAID disk. Defined as foreign. Is import or clear the correct choice?

I have re-inserted a RAID disk, on a DELL server with Windows Server 2008. The drive-status indicator was changing between a green and amber light, and the monitor gave the following message: There are offline or missing virtual drives with…
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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 MegaCli will show 0 media errors unless there is…
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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 configuration menu: The failed drive does not show any…
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Install of H700 controller in dell R610

We have just brought a refurbished dell R610 2 X 6 Core X5650, 96G Ram, SAS 6ir Raid Controller, 2 X Fujitsu MBC2073RC 2.5-Inch 15K 73GB SAS Hard Drive. We are going to also be installing additional drives: 2 X Intel 730 2.5-Inch 480 GB SSD's…
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Trouble Installing Windows Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge R720 w/ PERC H710 Mini

Just picked up a Dell PowerEdge R720. I created a virtual disk with the PERC H710 Mini BIOS Configuration Utility 4.03-0002 and configured it for RAID 1. When I then go to try to install Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit the virtual disk I just created…
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How to isolate the failed drive on Dell R710 using RHEL5 with a DELL PERC controller?

I've a failed drive reported in my RAID5 running on a Dell R710 using RHEL5 with a DELL PERC controller. Is there a method to determine which drive it is? Can I do this at the command line?
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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 installed it without issue. In open manage it still…
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How to back up RAID (PERC) configurations?

At my site we have several RAID storage servers, mostly using Dell PERC cards. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a way to take automated backups of the PERC configuration? The reason I ask is that Dell support has in several cases told us to…
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Failed Dell PowerEdge T410: Move Hardware RAID PERC H700: 3 x 300GB SAS (1 faulty) to 2nd T410 for Disk Cloning & Boot

Failed Dell PowerEdge T410: Move Hardware RAID PERC H700: 3 x 300GB SAS (1 faulty) to 2nd T410 for Disk Cloning & Boot FYI - PRE QUESTION CONTEXT: We barely got the original T410 up once where it was flagging CMOS battery errors, which we changed…
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Slow writes Dell Server R720

I have a Dell R720 Server with PERC H310 hardware raid 5 and 4 x Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 ST3300657SS 300GB hard drives. Windows Server 2008 R2. The reads look good, but the writes are painfully slow. Running the Atto Disk Benchmark, I'm seeing read…
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4TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 shows as 2 TB with Dell PERC 6/i RAID controller

I just got 2 x HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 4 TB drives, for creating a RAID 1 array in a Dell Poweredge 2950 server with a PERC 6/i RAID controller. According to a Compatibility Summary from HGST, the drive should work with a non-reduced capacity.…
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