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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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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 using Perc, and initialized it. Now /dev/sdc is…
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VMWare ESXi and PERC H200, storage over 2TB

I need to create a 6TB RAID10 array for one of our applications. On our server, the Dell R515, we have (6) 2TB drives configured in RAID10. I know that VMWare only suppors 2TB per LUN. I'm wondering if there's a way to directly pass the 6TB…
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RAID 5 setup not being noticed with Windows Server 2008 R2

I have just received a new DELL PowerEdge R310 Server and according to my job I need to set up all 4 500GB drives to run using the RAID 5 configuration. When I go into the controller configuration screen and set the drives up and the configuration I…
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PERC 5/i and SSD

I have a PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i and 4x 300GB 10K SAS drives in RAID 10. I want to add a secondary RAID 0 virtual disk using 2x SSD in the extra two slots. I know I'll need a 2.5" -> 3.5" adapter for each SSD, but I have read conflicting…
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SATA drive not recognized when installing RHEL 5.1 on PowerEdge R410

Here's my setup: Dell R410 with Perc S100 (software) raid controller on an Intel ICH10R chipset The first problem is that the Perc S100 is only supported on windows. I'm trying to install RHEL 5.1. It boots from the cdrom, but later the installer…
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How do I identify a DELL PERC RAID controller?

I have a PERC RAID Controller (PCI-X) installed in a Dell Precision 670 workstation running Windows Server 2003. The controller is hooked up to a PowerVault 221S. The system sees the card as a "RAID Controller" (unknown). I have tried all known…
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Upgrading T410 w/Perc 6i to Windows Server 2022

I have a PowerEdge T410 with a Perc 6/i configured with a Raid5 array. It is running Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and hosts several Hiper-V vms. Due to contractual obligations, we need to upgrade to Windows Server 2022. When I try to do the…
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How can I regain access to a RAID volume that I deleted from PERC in the Dell Life Cycle controller?

I'm using a Dell PowerEdge R820 with PERC H710 adapter I had RAID 0 configured across two 1TB SSDs, Drive A and Drive B. I recently bought a 5TB HDD, Drive C. Today, I was attempting to create a RAID 0 volume for Drive C in the LifeCycle controller,…
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RAID10 Performance on newer hardware slower then RAID5 performance on older hardware?

I am currently trying to figure out a performance issue with a new server compared to a old server. Performance should be better but it's not and I'm having trouble figuring out why. Old server is a Dell R640 (2x Xeon Gold 5218, 128Gb RAM) with a…
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Using a RAID Controller as Pass-thru vs RAID0

I have a server with DellPerc H750 Storage controller. I want to use the controller as Pass-thru/Non-RAID but I have the below questions: A) Is it possible in the future to replace the controller with a HBA one without losing data ? B) If I used…
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Create vdisk in PERC H710 Mini under Debian 11

I have a refurbished Dell R720 server with the PERC H710 Mini raid controller. I can assemble vdisks from physical disk in the BIOS. However, I'd like to create a vdisk without rebooting. I've installed Debian 11 and added the srvadmin tools using…
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how does a striped RAID work with large number of disks?

still trying to configure my large (24) array of disks (2.4TB) for an archive/nas of mixed huge and small files. But apart from this, I am now more focused to understand how striped RAIDs work under the hood but more I read and more I get confused…
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smartctl "Elements in grown defect list" vs. RAID controller "Media error count"

I am using a hardware raid50 with PERC810 controller in my server and recently encountered a metric I am not sure about. Until now, I have been using a smartctl metric "Elements in grown defect list" as a hint that drive is failing and should be…
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is the PERC controller limited to 1M of stripe size?

I have a dell powerdge linux (CentosOS8) server with a perc h740p controller and I am testing different strip/chunk sizes for a 10+2 RAID6 array of disks. For what I understood after spending days reading docs on the internet, under linux the stripe…
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disks for a small esx-host: ssd raid5 or hdd raid10?

I am about to replace an ESXi host that runs some 20 VMs (mostly idling). Today around only 800Gb is used on an external iscsi-box, raid6 (total 7Tb). The new server will just simply have internal disks. 2Tb will be plenty. It will most likely be a…
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