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January 30th, 2022 23:00
RAID Configuration with LifeCycle Controller
We just bought 3 Dell EMC PowerEdge R550 servers with PERC H345 Controller. Every server is equipped with 4 x 960GB SSD vSAS 2.5in hard drives. All firmware are updated including BIOS.
Problem:
I am able to configure RAID 10 from BIOS and iDRAC but when I try to configure RAID from LifeCycle Controller then HDDs are not shown for selection. All 3 servers are behaving in the same manner. Our local vendor says, if you are able to configure with BIOS or iDRAC then this is enough. But, I believe there is some configuration related or RAID Controller issue and all options to create RAID should work.
Anyone, please guide me.
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Dell- Maria J
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January 31st, 2022 07:00
Hello Ibadat,
Thank you for choosing Dell.
Usually it is possible to configure RAID using Lifecycle Controller too. I can suggest that you cannot create VD in Lifecycle Controller, because LC doesn't support Virtual Disk creation when the controller is in eHBA mode.
Source:
https://dell.to/3s3zN6S
Enhanced HBA mode (eHBA mode) is a new operating mode available with H740P, H745, and H745P MX cards. eHBA provides the following features:
Create virtual disks with RAID level 0, 1, or 10.
Present Non-RAID disks to the host.
Configure a default cache policy for virtual disks. The starting default is write-back with read ahead.
Configure virtual disks and Non-RAID disks as valid boot devices.
Automatically convert all unconfigured disks to Non-RAID:
More information about eHBA mode and how to check it you can find here:
https://dell.to/33XZOfT
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Thanks.
Ibadat
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February 19th, 2022 04:00
Thank you for your reply.
As I earlier mentioned that we are using PERC H345 Controller and I didn't find any option related to eHBA mode. .
Ibadat
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February 20th, 2022 22:00
Hi, Young
https://ibb.co/xhqxGKx
This is the screen shot of available settings
DELL-Young E
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February 20th, 2022 22:00
Hi, we can't see your pic for some reasons. Would you be able to re upload?
DELL-Young E
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February 21st, 2022 05:00
Hi from what we see, it's on RAID so it looks good. Did you try though Lifecycle controller yet?
Ibadat
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February 21st, 2022 23:00
Yes, we are able to configure the RAID with BIOS and iDRAP but can't do this from LifeCycle Controller.
DELL-Joey C
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February 22nd, 2022 01:00
Hi @Ibadat,
Would you be able to confirm the firmware level of the server's BIOS, iDRAC/LifeCycle and HBA? Are they up to date?