OpenManage 5.3 or later supports the PERC5 card (OpenManage 5.4.x is the latest I believe).
You didn't mention your OS, but there's an OpenManage for Windows and some distros of Linux (there may be version requirements).
Once this is installed, you can go to http://servername:1311 and log in. Under storage you can configure virtual drives.
Note: only Windows 2003 SP1 and later supports virtual disks over 2TB (after you initialize the disk, right click it and convert to GPT and you can then use the space after the 2TB point or grow above 2TB if you ever decide to expand). If you're running linux, I know that Red Hat 4 and later and SuSE 9 and later support large disks. In Linux you do have to use parted to partition the disk though; find the diskid, do "parted /dev/sd
x", and then "mklabel gpt". Now you can make a partition up to the max of your filesystem of choice (ext3 seems to have an 8TB limit).
We have a windows2000 server installed in the PE2800. Also we have existing 3 disks of 750GB installed along with the perc4 card. We are using this system as an archive (PACS). Since the exisiting space was full we are in the process of upgrading the existing system by adding more harddisk(MD1000) with a perc5.
After installing the above we were not able to locate the array in the dell open manage.
"we have existing 3 disks of 750GB installed along with the perc4 card"
This isn't possible. The PERC4 only supports SCSI drives and no 750GB SCSI drives exist (largest SAS drives are 450 (not counting the SATA drives that have a SAS controller on them), but I'm not even sure the 450's were ever released as SCSI).
Which version of OpenManage are you running? It sounds like either OpenManage 5.2 or older, or OpenManage wasn't installed with the storage option.
To check the version at the top right click "about".
If it's 5.4.x, go to add/remove programs and select to add/remove OpenManage. I believe it has a modify option. If you don't see this, just run the install executable again. From the modify option select/check the storage option.
In my experience installing/uninstalling or changing the OpenManage setup doesn't require a reboot.
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OpenManage 5.3 or later supports the PERC5 card (OpenManage 5.4.x is the latest I believe).
You didn't mention your OS, but there's an OpenManage for Windows and some distros of Linux (there may be version requirements).
Once this is installed, you can go to http://servername:1311 and log in. Under storage you can configure virtual drives.
Note: only Windows 2003 SP1 and later supports virtual disks over 2TB (after you initialize the disk, right click it and convert to GPT and you can then use the space after the 2TB point or grow above 2TB if you ever decide to expand). If you're running linux, I know that Red Hat 4 and later and SuSE 9 and later support large disks. In Linux you do have to use parted to partition the disk though; find the diskid, do "parted /dev/sd x", and then "mklabel gpt". Now you can make a partition up to the max of your filesystem of choice (ext3 seems to have an 8TB limit).
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We have a windows2000 server installed in the PE2800. Also we have existing 3 disks of 750GB installed along with the perc4 card. We are using this system as an archive (PACS). Since the exisiting space was full we are in the process of upgrading the existing system by adding more harddisk(MD1000) with a perc5.
After installing the above we were not able to locate the array in the dell open manage.
Please suggest.
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September 12th, 2008 16:00
"we have existing 3 disks of 750GB installed along with the perc4 card"
This isn't possible. The PERC4 only supports SCSI drives and no 750GB SCSI drives exist (largest SAS drives are 450 (not counting the SATA drives that have a SAS controller on them), but I'm not even sure the 450's were ever released as SCSI).
Which version of OpenManage are you running? It sounds like either OpenManage 5.2 or older, or OpenManage wasn't installed with the storage option.
To check the version at the top right click "about".
If it's 5.4.x, go to add/remove programs and select to add/remove OpenManage. I believe it has a modify option. If you don't see this, just run the install executable again. From the modify option select/check the storage option.
In my experience installing/uninstalling or changing the OpenManage setup doesn't require a reboot.