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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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Embedded SATA on my PE R440

I purchased a PowerEdge R440 with embedded SATA and am wondering is it possible to set up a different RAID with the drives in them? i.e. RAID 1 for the 480GB drives and RAID 6 for the 12TB drives or do I need to have the hardware (H730P)
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remove raid0 from a dell t710 using perc

I got a dell server with 2 physical harddrives that are seen as one, because the system is utilizing raid0. How do we disable this striping, such that we can see two different drives. I'm well aware that this will cause all the data to be erased,…
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Expanding RAID volume on PowerEdge

I have a PowerEdge T620 and R620 with RAID5 volumes on Perc H710P controllers. Can these be expanded in place with no data loss by adding additional drives? I have seen this demonstrated online, but it's not an option in the RAID management…
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What happens to the disk data if the disk is made RAID ready?

I have a PERC H730P mini RAID controller. I have a single physical (non-raid) disk with important data which I falsely executed as "Convert to RAID capable". Apart from this, I haven't done anything else to the disk. My question is that if the…
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Centos 7 - replace Perc 6i with H700

I've installed Centos 7 using a Dell Perc 6i using 1TB drives. I'm interested in replacing the 6i with a H700 to be able to use larger drives. I am looking to understand the process so that I can make a decision about whether or not to do this. I…
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Dell R720 - can't install any operating system

I am trying to install a host OS but whatever I try installing, it always fails with I/O related error. Looking at similar issues described on the internet, everything points to an imminent / existing disk failure. I have tried multiple RAID…
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DELL PERC status needs attention

if anyone is familiar with Dell PowerEdge Raid Controllers (PERC) that are in servers, I have a PERC H740P that when you go F2 into the BIOS then navigate to the PERC device it says STATUS: needs attention. does anyone know how to figure out what…
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Updating the firmware on a PERC 6/i

I am re-installing a DELL PE2950 with an integrated PERC 6/i with 6 4TB SATA Drives. The PERC 6/i can only access 2TB of disk space with the firmware package 6.1.1-0047 currently installed. In various places on the net, you can read that with…
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Restoring VD on Perc 6

PowerEdge server with PERC 6 RAID, two VD, RAID 1 with two drives (mirroring) on each. System went down and when it came back up the four drive status lights all showed green, but a message was displayed about VD 1 missing. I entered the RAID…
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Dell H730 in HBA mode - Why are there issues with performance and SMART data?

I recently purchased a Dell R730xd that came with an H730 RAID card. I would like to bring an existing 6 disk ZFS pool to this server as well as create an additional 6 disk hardware RAID. In my research, I have read that the H730 DOES support HBA…
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How to update PERC H700 when used in a Dell R410 server?

I have a PERC H700 running in a Dell R410 server which works fine. However when I try to update the firmware using the Dell package I get a message "This update package is not compatible with your system..." I tried using the Lifecyle Controller to…
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Installing Dell R710 from Scratch

I am building a Dell R710 server from scratch. I am deploying a bootable USB on the internal usb port. The bootable usb contains esxi 6.x and I can't seem to configure the RAID controller from scratch. When booting (before it boots to ESXI on BIOS…
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Cannot bring new disk drive in dell R610 online

So, I added new drive to Dell R610 and in BIOS management RAID management cannot place it, the only option I have available is HOT SPARE online option are greyed out. As a HOT SPARE DISK is unusable. Any ideas what to do to put the spare disk…
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PERC 6/i will not find my SATA drives

I got a PERC 6/i for our build-system machine running ESXi 5.0update1. The hardware is a MSI X79A-GD65 with Intel X79 chipset, Extreme i7 CPU. I also got a SFF8484->4xSATA cable and connected it to 4 SATA drives (WD10EARX), but I can't get the…
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PERC H700: "Virtual disk creation failed" Why?

I try to create a new VD on a drive from the PERC config. I get: "Virtual disk creation failed" The drive has been used before in another system. What do I need to clear, before I can use the drive?
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