- 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
- 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
- Multipath and clustering setup
- Management applications for Shared PERC 8 card
- Troubleshooting
- Performance variations between write-back and write-through cache modes
- Shared PERC 8 card boots into safe mode
- Degraded state of virtual disks
- General issues
- Physical disk
issues
- Incorrect Number of Virtual Disks Displayed In Windows Disk Manager
- Physical Disk In Failed State
- Unable to rebuild a fault tolerant virtual disk
- Fatal Error Or Data Corruption Reported
- Physical Disk Displayed As Blocked By Management Application
- Multiple Disks Become Inaccessible
- Rebuilding A Failed Physical Disk
- Virtual Disk Fails During Rebuild Using A Global Hot Spare
- Virtual Disk Fails During Rebuild Using A Dedicated Hot Spare
- Physical disk takes a long time to rebuild
- Controller cache issues
- SMART Errors
- Auto Replacement Member Errors
- Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns
- Getting help
Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 8 For Dell PowerEdge VRTX Systems User’s Guide
Replacing a Shared PERC 8 card
When replacing an existing Shared PERC 8 card in the PowerEdge VRTX system, perform the steps in this chapter to ensure proper functionality of the shared storage after the replacement process is complete.
- CAUTION: Shared PERC 8 cards are not hot-swappable. Do not remove or install Shared PERC 8 cards from the system board while the PowerEdge VRTX system is powered on.
In the Single Shared PERC 8 card configuration, the shared PERC slot is labeled as INT_STORAGE_1 on the PowerEdge VRTX system board. In the Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 card configuration, the shared PERC slots are labeled as INT_STORAGE_1 and INT_STORAGE_2 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.
Controller firmware package 23.8.10-0059 is the minimum firmware package version required for fault tolerant Shared PERC 8 configurations on PowerEdge VRTX.
- NOTE: Write-back caching in a fault tolerant configuration is not supported with firmware version 23.8.10-0061 and the earlier versions.
- NOTE: For write-back caching capability, ensure that all the storage solution components are updated with the latest firmware.
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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