Perc H740 Supported Drives
I'm trying to find documentation on supported drives for the Perc H740 controller.
View ArticleCRITICAL: PE R710 PERC 6/E MD1000 Offline
Hi,our MD1000 disk array on a PER710 connected via PERC 6/E goes offline under heavy read operations like during backups. Here is the error:10/03/17 6:41:10: mfiIsr: idr=00000020 10/03/17 6:41:10:...
View ArticleR210 II PXE boot: General question
I'm trying to set up a PXE boot server and I seem to be having issues with trying to PXE boot up a Poweredge R210 II. I found an old post about updating the BIOS and network interface firmware. I...
View ArticleiDRAC no longer accessible
Hi,lately I wanted to restrict the ssh access of my iDRAC 8 to a particular ip. So I thought of:racadm config -g cfgRacTuning -o cfgRacTuneIpRangeEnable 1racadm config -g cfgRacTuning -o...
View ArticlePERC H710P: Manually replace member
Is possible, with PERC H710, to replace a (working) member with another (newer) disk, without loosing redundancy during the whole rebuild phase?Almost all software raid (ZFS, MDADM) does this. During a...
View ArticleRAID Settings on PowerEdge R430
Hi there!I'm trying to understand how RAID work on R430. (PERC H730 mini)The first question is: Why in SATA mode AHCI (I mean "embedded sata") i can create RAID 10 virtual disk and install OS? In SATA...
View ArticleHarddisk shows fault on poweredge R610 server when it runs in another R610...
Hi,I have a Poweredge R610 server at a remote location and another at the datacentre that I work at.Recently the idrac logs showed fault detected on drive 5 on the server at remote location , the drive...
View ArticleHow to upgrade a R720 with H710P Controller
Hi all,I have a R720 with a Perc H710P controller running two RAID sets, 1- Presently installed are: 2 x 300GB RAID 1 system (C:, E:) + logs & 8 x 300GB SQL (D:).2- I would...
View ArticleExchange 2016 Best Practices by Dell
We have purchased Dell PowerEdge R730xd for Exchange services and are looking to best practices document for Exchange 2016 implementation by Dell.We are following the dell reference architecture for...
View ArticleR310 Drive caddies ?
Hi All, I have an R310, it has the SAS back plane, presumed to be the hot swap?Tag is <removed>I'm trying to install DELL enterprise SATA drivesI've tried both OF238F and OX968D caddies but they...
View ArticlePE T710 memory is configured but not usable
Hi. I moved office recently and when I plugged my server back in I received the "memory is configured but not usable" error on the message LCD on the front of the server and the server will not even...
View ArticleR420 won't boot to OS
I have a brand new build on an older R420 where I have two SSD's in RAID1 with the OS and two SATA drives in RAID1 for my data. I was able to successfully install the OS (Windows 2016 Std) using the...
View ArticleR620 PCIE training error with E5-2660v2
Hi, all Dell docs say the R620 is compatible with Xeon E5-2660v2 processors, so I updated Bios and PERC H710 mini firmwares to latest, then installed the processors. However, it insists on System Halt-...
View ArticleR720 failed and removed HDD shown as "Spun Up"
We had a drive fail in an R720, and when we went to replace it, it didn't attempt to rebuild the new drive. We removed the new drive and left the slot open, and Server Administrator shows the slot as...
View ArticlePE T710 memory is configured but not usable
Hi. I moved office recently and when I plugged my server back in I received the "memory is configured but not usable" error on the message LCD on the front of the server and the server will not even...
View ArticleExchange 2016 Best Practices by Dell
We have purchased Dell PowerEdge R730xd for Exchange services and are looking to best practices document for Exchange 2016 implementation by Dell.We are following the dell reference architecture for...
View ArticleR420 won't boot to OS
I have a brand new build on an older R420 where I have two SSD's in RAID1 with the OS and two SATA drives in RAID1 for my data. I was able to successfully install the OS (Windows 2016 Std) using the...
View ArticleH710 Mini Battery
Does the H710 mini have a replaceable battery? MY R420 keeps indicating that the battery is low. Shortly thereafter, it goes back to operating normally. I have confirmed that the controller has...
View ArticleChassis Management Controller CMC 6.0
Hi,Under Compatible Systems, several blade models are listed for this release.Does that mean if a blade model is not listed it will have problems if the chassis is updated form 5.22 to 6.0? e.g....
View ArticlePoweredge t430 possible puncture?
A few weeks ago, our t430 experienced some pretty fun drive failure issues, while I was away on vacation.My coworkers were able to get the server repaired and back up and running. However, today, I...
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