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Adding a H710 to an existing server
Hi,
I added a H710 mini to a production R720 server along with two 10TB drives. After the controller was installed, I configured RAID 1 with the two new drives. Now I see the boot drive in the controller configuration utility listed as "unconfigured" and I cannot select it as a boot drive. I want to use the original boot drive for the server and I'm wary of adding it to the controller configuration because I don't want to lose data on the boot drive. What needs to be done to set the original boot drive as a boot drive after the installation on H710?
Thank you, Alex.
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October 3rd, 2018 13:00
Hello
The H710 does not support non-RAID or pass-through mode. All disks must be part of a virtual disk before the controller will present them to the system. If this is a single drive RAID 0 that was created on a PERC then you may be able to migrate it. It would be detected as foreign if migration is possible. You can read more about migration between PERCs in the OpenManage Server Administrator Storage manual.
http://www.dell.com/openmanagemanuals/
If the disk was written while using a pass-through controller then there is not a supported migration method. You can try creating a single drive RAID 0 without performing an initialization. It will likely corrupt the data on the disk, but it may work. You may just need to recover the boot loader, I'm not sure.
Thanks