- 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
SMART Error Detected On A Physical Disk In A Redundant Virtual Disk
- Issue:
- A SMART error is detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk.
- Corrective Action:
- Perform the following steps:
- Back up your data.
- Physically remove the physical disk that detected the SMART error.
- Replace the disk with a new physical disk of equal or higher capacity.
- Perform the
Auto Replacement of a Virtual Disk operation.
- NOTE: The Auto Replacement of Virtual Disk operation allows you to copy data from a source physical disk of a virtual disk to a target physical disk that is not a part of the virtual disk. For more information about the Auto Replacement feature, see Auto Replacement Of A Virtual Disk Member And Revertible Hot Spares .
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\