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Do dell perc 6i cards support online expansion of a raid 1 array when both drives have been replaced with larger ones?

Do Dell perc 6i cards support online expansion of a raid 1 array when both drives have been replaced with larger ones? For example the the Logical Drive 0 (LDO) has two member 73gb drives. We have two new 147GB drives available and inserted into the…
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PERC 6/i | ext4 | raid5 | 4 disks - improve write performance

I am running several fileservers using this controller, filesystem and disk setup. All of them are suffering from poor write performance, once the 256MB BBU Write Cache is full i get really high iowait (>40) and the write speed goes down to a few…
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PERC 6/i RAID on Dell R710: Slow disk... RAID10 on single controller?

There are multiple questions here - but it starts with this: we've a Dell PowerEdge R710 with a PERC 6/i RAID controller (or controllers) in a RAID10 configuration. The system is running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS with MySQL doing a read-intensive…
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Upgrading RAID 5 array drives in a DELL 2950 with Perc 6i controller

We currently have a DELL 2950 with 4 x 400Gb 10krpm SAS drives in RAID 5, and one of those drives has failed. Not having any identical spares (don't slap me, it's not my fault), and not being able to source any identical replacements, we have…
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Dell Perc 6/i Raid Controller Battery Missing

I noticed when I installed the Dell OpenManage that the battery on my Raid controller is missing. Is this something that is critical? What does the battery do?
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Is it possible to run multiple RAID arrays simultaneously on my single dell r720?

I am brand new to the world of servers and system admin., but I recently stumbled upon a used server in good condition: Dell Poweredge R720, 2x E5-2640 12 Cores (2.5 Ghz), 128GB RAM, 8.2TB of drives (two of which are SSDs) I've set up multiple VDs…
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Raid 10 recovery on Dell Server - Perc 6/i

I have a Raid 10 setup on Dell Perc 6/i controller with 4 drives + hot spare. While server was off, new drive was added yesterday in drive 1 slot that was empty for last 2 months. After turning server back on, co-workers say Ctrl+R pages showed…
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Will a 3GB/s SAS RAID Controller (Dell PERC 6/i) support 12GB/s SAS HDDs?

will a 3GB/s SAS RAID Controller (Dell PERC 6/i) support 12GB/s SAS HDDs (Seagate ST2000NM0034)? And: Will this RAID Controller support the full size (2 TB) of the HDDs? Greetz from Austria, Florian Miesenberger
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DELL FS12-SC PERC 6/i replacement with JBOD support?

I have 3 DELL FS12-SC servers with a bunch of 3TB drives (issue number 1, the perc 6/i doesn't appear to support 3TB drives). I'm setting up a ceph cluster and need to run the drives in JBOD mode. The perc 6/i doesn't support that either. The best…
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What is PERC6i?

What is PERC6i? I understand that it's a type of hard drive or raid controller, what makes it special or is it just a brandname controller?
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Dell PERC 6/i configuration SAS/SATA

What limitations are there to the configuration of SAS/SATA drives on a PERC 6/i raid controller. Can I have 2 virtual disks - RAID 1 SAS and RAID 5 SATA, or the other way around? Does it matter that the first VD is SAS/SATA or is it not important?…
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Dell Perc 6/i Raid Monitoring on Linux 2.6.32-2x kernels

I am running an LSI raid (Dell Perc 6/i) on my Ubuntu 10.04 server. I want to monitor the raid array but it seems that there is no software for it. The raid drivers are part of the kernel, but I dont see any tools for it. Software that is available,…
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What is this Cable for? 4 Pin to 2 Pin from Riser to Perc in Dell R410

I got a new raid card for a R410 server since the S300 that came with it doesn't support raid with Linux (No work around for this if SAS from what I could find). The new card is the SAS H200. Anyways, the RAID card has 2 pins on it and there is a…
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Does the PERC6i card support multiple RAID arrays?

I'm looking to expand storage with my PE 2950. It has a PERC6i card that currently runs two SAS drives in a RAID 10 configuration, used as my OS partition. I'd like to add a couple SATA drives (1TB+ each) as a RAID configuration (most likely RAID…
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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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