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Questions tagged [h700]

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How can I manage Dell H700 RAID controllers from the Linux command line?

Previous PERC controllers could all be managed/monitored by the LSI MegaCLI tools. The latest release of those tools does not appear to recognize my H700 card: $ sudo /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -adpCount Controller Count: 0. Are there 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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Max drive size for PERC H700 in Dell r610

I'm having a hard time understanding the spec. sheet. It says there is a max storage cap of 12TB for the entire system, but does not specify a disk size restriction. Should I assume the HDD cap is 2TB (* 6 bays)? Any chance this 12TB is a soft cap…
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What does Embedded SATA Controller : ATA mean?

I have a Poweredge R510 server with a PERC H700 Integrated RAID controller that is exhibiting slower than expected disk speeds (RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays) and I'm looking at the configuration of the server. Running the command omreport chassis…
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How to find if there is an expander in my controller

I have 2U PowerEdge R510 with PERC H700 Integrated and 8 installed disks, can someone tell me how to find if my disks are using the expander in the backplane or there are all directly attached to the controller. I am experiencing strange…
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How to over-provision an Intel SSD RAID Array via the Dell H700 PERC RAID Controller

I would like to set up a RAID10 array of 6 Intel SSD 320 SSDs, but over-provision them to enhance their performance and duration as per this PDF: http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/45/95/459555_459555.pdf Is this as simple as creating the array…
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Bad Blocks Exist in Virtual Device PERC H700 Integrated

I have a DELL server with PERC H700 Integrated controller. I've made RAID5 with 12 harddrives and the virtual device is in Optimal state, but I receive such errors under linux: sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Result:…
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VMware installation error on Dell PE R715

We have just purchased 2 x Dell Power Edge R715 with the PERC H700 raid contoller, each machine has 6 x 300GB SAS drives. I have set 2 drives up in raid 0 and 4 drives in raid 10 on each machine, but when installing ESX4 I cannot see any target…
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Crucial C300 256GB SSDs in Dell M605 (or similar) Blade with Perc H700

Does anyone have any experience with 3rd party SSD drives in any of the Dell Blade range? I'm not prepared to pay dell £1000 for a 100GB SSD drive, when I can pick up 2x 256GB drives for £800! I've read this : Dell SSD options and 3rd party SSDs in…
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How can I add a single SAS drive to a Perc H700 on Dell R310 server WITHOUT loosing the data on it?

On a Dell R310 server with Perc H700 RAID controller. I have 1 virtual disk configured as Raid 1 but with only 1 physical SAS disk attached and the other missing. This virtual disk has been configured with fresh CentOS 6.9 and boots normally. I now…
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Repeated disk failure on Dell T610 Server

I purchased a used Poweredge T610 and upgraded it to 2x Hexcore Xeon X5675 processors and 96 GB RAM. Initially, I used 3 WD green 2TB drives in a RAID-5 array (Perc6i controller) and installed Ubuntu server on the virtual disk. This setup served me…
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On R720xd with H710p I want to delete a VD without reboot. MegaRAID Storage Manager gives me "this is an OS drive" and refuses

I'm trying to reorganize VD on Dell R720xd without reboot. iDRAC queues VD deletion for reboot time. A hack with installing LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager GUI refuses to delete VD saying "this is an os drive" The drive is not mounted anywhere.
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Is the PERC H700 controller compatible with a Poweredge 1950 / 1950 III?

I am interested in breathing new life in my old Poweredge 1950/1950 III servers and was wondering if the PERC H700 controllers are compatible. Has anyone attempted such an upgrade and has it been successful? Cheers, Michael.
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Dell H700 SSDs and HDs in different RAID groups?

I am about to purchase a Dell R610 and use a H700 RAID controller. I was wanting to add 2 X SSD (480G) RAID 1, and 2 X HD (2TB) RAID 1. In reading over the manuals I saw: SSDs require the PERC 6/i or PERC H700 integrated storage controller card and…
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Dell R700 RAID card for R210, will it work/fit?

Looking to improve output on VMware. Will Dell F2WGY Perc H700 Modular work in a R210 II server?
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