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July 1st, 2014 04:00
Raid configurartion question
Hi,
Last week we bought a new Poweredg R910 with 6X900 GB SAS drive, colleague of mijn did use 4 of these 6 Drives to confiure a RAID 5. we also sepretly bought 2X400GB SATA drives and he build a RAID 1 for the OS. After I did install the Dell server manager on this server.
I have 2 question:
1. When I go to the Server Administrator console - Storage Connector 0 I can see 6 phsyical disks the 4 disks that are in the RAID 5 and all of them have a green check marks but the 2 disks in the RAID 1 has a yellow triangel. What this means?
2. Also again under the storage coonector 0 I can see all the 6 disks, shouldnt we use the connector 0 for the raid 1 and the connector 1 for RAID 5? or we can use the same connector to for more then one RAID confiuration?
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DELL-Chris H
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July 1st, 2014 06:00
Mrshahin,
If you hover over the ! does it state the alert.? The first thing I would look at would be the driver and firmware version on the controller and those drives. Also if the firmware is older then it may be flagging them as non Dell branded drives. What is the current revision on the controller and drives?
Let me know what you find.
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July 2nd, 2014 02:00
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your update,
If I hover over it it says Non-Critical.
In my first screenshot you can see the revision of the Drive.(is this what you mean?)
This is the the controler version:
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July 2nd, 2014 06:00
Is it also showing the firmware version as well, and not just the drivers?
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July 2nd, 2014 07:00
This is the only information I can see! where can I find the firmaware version?
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July 2nd, 2014 09:00
When you highlight the controller on the left it should be listed in the information to the right.
mrshahin
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July 3rd, 2014 01:00
I see this:
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July 3rd, 2014 08:00
Click the plus in front of physical disk 0:0:4 and 0:0:5.
Most likely the yellow exclamantion marks are due to having non-Dell SSDs in your server (they don't have a Dell branded firmware). If you did buy PowerEdge certified SSDs (with Dell firmware and a Dell label/partnumber on the drive), the firmware may just be out of date and you should update the firmware. Expanding the plus in front of the drives will probably show you what it's complaining about.
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July 7th, 2014 04:00
Sorry for delay but I thought you talked about the RAID controlere and not the drive. as in the my first post u can see that I did open the + beside the drive and I cannot see anything that syas why it is complaining.
so how can we check the firmware? and which firmware should we download and install?
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July 10th, 2014 04:00
Any update???
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July 10th, 2014 06:00
Mrshahin,
Follow this link and use it to update the drives. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=N36TG&fileId=3368488753&osCode=WS8R2&productCode=poweredge-r910&languageCode=EN&categoryId=AS
If the drives firmware is still non-Dell based then it is likely what is causing the bang. Update and then restart OMSA to verify.
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July 17th, 2014 03:00
Thanks for the update,
We have 3 Raid configuration on this server, and the problematic drives are in a Raid configuration, should we consern regarding the data lost?
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July 17th, 2014 09:00
There shouldn't be any data loss from updating the firmware to the Dell version. Just to be safe though whenever working with the raid arrays it is always a good idea to have a data backup.