- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Features
- Controller features
- Virtual disk features
- Hard drive features
- Fault tolerance
- Linux operating system device enumeration
- Controller mode
- Non-RAID disk
- Deploying the PERC card
- Removing the PERC H345 adapter
- Installing the PERC H345 adapter
- Removing the PERC H345 front card
- Installing the PERC H345 front card
- Removing the PERC H740P adapter
- Installing the PERC H740P adapter
- Removing the PERC H740P mini monolithic
- Installing the PERC H740P mini monolithic
- Removing the PERC H745 adapter
- Installing the PERC H745 adapter
- Removing the PERC H745 front card
- Installing the PERC H745 front card
- Removing the PERC H745P MX adapter card
- Installing the PERC H745P MX adapter card
- Removing the PERC H840 card
- Installing the PERC H840 card
- Part replacement of a PERC card in eHBA mode
- Part replacement of a PERC card in RAID mode with another in eHBA mode
- Driver installation
- Creating the device driver media
- Windows driver installation
- Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation
- Installing the driver after Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation
- Updating PERC 10 driver for existing Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer
- Linux driver installation
- Firmware
- HII configuration utility
- Entering the HII configuration utility
- Exiting the HII configuration utility
- Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility
- HII Configuration utility dashboard view options
- Configuration management
- Controller management
- Virtual disk management
- Physical disk management
- Hardware components
- Security key management in the HII configuration utility
- Security key and RAID management
- Security key implementation
- Local Key Management
- Creating security key
- Changing Security Settings
- Disabling security key
- Create secured virtual disk
- Secure non-RAID disks
- Secure preexisting virtual disk
- Importing secure virtual disk
- Import secured non-RAID disk
- Dell OpenManage Secure Enterprise Key Manager
- Supported controllers for OpenManage Secure Enterprise Key Manager
- Managing enterprise key manager mode
- Disabling the enterprise key manager mode
- Managing virtual disks in enterprise key manager mode
- Migrate of drives from local key management to enterprise key management (with supported firmware for PERC and iDRAC)
- Transitioning of drives from local key management to enterprise key management (without supported firmware for PERC and iDRAC)
- Troubleshooting
- Single virtual disk performance or latency in hypervisor configurations
- Adapter at baseport not responding error message
- BIOS disabled error message
- Configured disks removed or not accessible error message
- Dirty cache data error message
- Discovery error message
- Drive Configuration Changes Error Message
- Windows operating system installation errors
- Firmware fault state error message
- Extra enclosure error message
- Foreign configuration found error message
- Foreign configuration not found in HII error message
- Degraded state of virtual disks
- Memory errors
- Preserved Cache State
- Security key errors
- General issues
- Physical disk issues
- Physical disk in failed state
- Unable to rebuild a fault tolerant virtual disk
- Fatal error or data corruption reported
- Physical disk displayed as blocked
- Multiple disks are inaccessible
- Rebuilding data for a failed physical disk
- Virtual disk fails during rebuild using a global hot spare
- Dedicated hot spare disk fails during rebuild
- Redundant virtual disk fails during reconstruction
- Virtual disk fails rebuild using a dedicated hot spare
- Physical disk takes a long time to rebuild
- SMART errors
- Replace member errors
- Linux operating system errors
- Drive indicator codes
- HII error messages
- System reports more drive slots than what is available
- Backplane firmware revision not changing in PERC interfaces after an update
- Appendix RAID description
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 10 User’s Guide PERC H345, H740P, H745, and H840 Series Controllers
Fast initialization
A fast initialization on a virtual disk overwrites the first and last 8 MB of the virtual disk, clearing any boot records or partition information. The operation takes only 2–3 seconds to complete, but it is followed by BGI, which takes a longer time to complete. To perform a fast initialization using the HII Configuration Utility, see
Configuring virtual disk parameters.
NOTE: During full or fast initialization, the host cannot access the virtual disk. As a result, if the host attempts to access the virtual disk while it is initializing, all I/O sent by the host will fail.
NOTE:When using IDRAC create a VD, the drive undergoes fast initialization. During this process all I/O requests to the drive will respond with a sense key of
"Not Ready" and the I/O operation will fail. If the operating system attempts to read from the drive as soon as it discovers the drive, and while the fast initialization is still in process, then the I/O operation fails and the operating system reports an I/O error.
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