Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question I have Dell PowerEdge R620 Server on which Vmware Esxi host is running but yesterday 2 HDD showing missing and … Read more
I just bought a new Dell R330 with and H330 RAID controller. When I try to install Server 2008 R2, the installation program cant find my Raid setup. The Raid is up & running and if I try Server 2016, it finds the discs and I can install the OS. So there is no problem … Read more
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? Answer Go to PERC config. F2 > Manage Preserved Cache > DISCARD CACHE Insert … Read more
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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 online? Answer The inability to place a … Read more
Problem I have a Dell R610 Server that I am trying to upgrade with some new disks and a new operating system. The server has a PERC H700 RAID Controller with firmware 12.0.7.001 (which is the latest I could find on the Dell site). I ran firmware, bios and driver updates from the Dell support … Read more
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 drives to show up in the RAID BIOS. I have already … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question I have acquired a Dell poweredge R620 that has a PERC S110. I am familiar with my Dell T420 that holds the PERC … Read more
On a Dell R710 server running Window Server 2008 R2 there are currently 4 50GB SSDs in a RAID 10 array, and I’m adding 2 additional 50GB SSDs. This server runs SQL Server and not much else. If these were spindled HDs, from what I’ve read I would be better off to create a new … Read more
A client of ours has a server running Windows that is installed on a PERC S300 software RAID. We want to upgrade this to a larger capacity, so we are also upgrading to a hardware RAID card (PERC H700). Although we have backups of the server, we wanted to know if was possible to take … Read more
