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March 1st, 2010 11:00
adding new drive
Hello all,
I am new to this. So any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 4 x 160GB 7.2K HDs and PERC61 SAS Raid Controller. We got 2 new 2TB 7.2K HDs and plugged them into the server. Light on the drive is green. However under the Server Manager, I cannot see them.
Any suggestions?
ajc
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theflash1932
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March 1st, 2010 12:00
You will need to set the drives up with the PERC 6 before they will be recognized by the OS. If you have OpenManage Server Administrator installed, you can do it there. If you don't have it installed, you can install it (below) or do it from the controller's BIOS (CTRL-R during POST).
OMSA - ftp://ftp.dell.com/sysman/OM_6.2.0_Man_Node_A00.exe
Download and run to extract files, then run C:\Openmanage\windows\setup.exe. Choose Custom install and make sure that Storage Management (and all sub-features) is installed. You can then go to Storage>PERC 6/i and under connectors/backplane>Physical Disks, they should show as Ready. You can then click on PERC 6/i, then Information/Configuration link at the top of the page, then choose Create VD from dropdown menu. The wizard should present you with the new drives and ask you how to configure them. (Hint: If you are wanting to use these drives as stand-alone drives (no RAID), then they must each be set up as one-disk RAID 0.)
impulsesigns
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March 1st, 2010 13:00
thanks,
Worked like a charm
ajc