- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- About the Shared PERC 8 card
- Shared PERC
8 card features
- Physical disk power management
- Consistency Checks
- Virtual disk initialization
- Physical disk roaming
- FastPath
- Virtual disk migration
- Virtual disk cache policies
- Physical disk write cache policy
- Fault tolerance
- Multipath support
- Deploying the Shared PERC 8 card
- Firmware and
driver installation
- Downloading drivers and firmware for Shared PERC 8 from the Dell support website for all operating systems
- Downloading drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools media for Windows
- Installing or updating Windows drivers for Shared PERC 8
- Installing or updating Linux drivers for Shared PERC 8
- Installing or updating VMware drivers for Shared PERC 8
- Firmware installation or update
- Multipath and clustering setup
- Management applications for Shared PERC 8 card
- Security key and RAID management
- Troubleshooting
- General issues
- Shared PERC 8 card not seen in Device Manager
- Critical errors or disk warning messages seen in the Windows Event log
- Shared PERC 8 cards fail to function
- Fatal error or data corruption reported
- EMM failure message seen after EMM firmware update
- Erratic drive LED behavior after EMM Firmware update
- Performance variations between write-back and write-through cache modes
- Physical disk
issues
- Physical disk in failed state
- Capable speed of a drive being shown as blank
- Physical disk displayed as Blocked by management application
- Multiple disks become inaccessible
- Rebuilding a Failed physical disk
- Foreign dedicated hot spare shown as global hot spare in CMC’s foreign configuration preview before foreign configuration import
- Physical disk takes a long time to rebuild
- SMART Errors
- Auto Replacement Member errors
- Virtual disks issues
- Driver issues
- Controller issues
- Hard drive indicator codes
- General issues
- Getting help
Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller 8 Cards For Dell PowerEdge VRTX Systems User’s Guide
Replacing a Shared PERC 8 External card
When replacing an existing Shared PERC 8 External card in the PowerEdge
VRTX system, perform the following steps to ensure proper functionality
of the shared storage after the replacement process is complete.
- Prerequisites for removing the Shared PERC External card. See Prerequisites for removing the Shared PERC 8 External card .
- Remove the Shared PERC External card. See Removing the Shared PERC 8 External card .
- Install the Shared PERC External card. See Installing the Shared PERC 8 External card .
- Postinstallation tasks for the Shared PERC External card. See Postinstallation tasks for the Shared PERC 8 External card .
- CAUTION: Shared PERC 8 External cards are hot add supported, but are not hot remove supported. Do not remove Shared PERC 8 External cards from the system board while the PowerEdge VRTX system is turned on.
In the Single Shared PERC 8 External card configuration, the shared PERC External slot is labeled as Slot 5 or Slot 6 (either can be used) on the PowerEdge VRTX system board. In the Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 External card configuration, the shared PERC External slots are labeled as Slot 5 and Slot 6 on the PowerEdge VRTX system board.
To locate the Shared PERC slots, see System Board Connectors in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX Enclosure Owner's Manual at Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
For more information, see the storage subsystem compatibility matrix document at Dell.com/support/home.
For information on removing and reinstalling system parts, see the VRTX Enclosure Owner's Manual of the system at Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
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