- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview
- Getting started with your PERC card
- Installing the operating system and the PERC card on a base system
- Installing the PERC card on a system with the operating system pre-installed
- Installing the operating system on a system with the PERC card pre-installed
- Setting up the system with the PERC card and the operating system pre-installed
- Configuring settings of a replaced PERC card on a system with operating system pre-installed
- Features
- Enhanced rebuild prioritization
- Redundant path support for PERC H830
- 240 virtual disk support for H830
- PERC 9 personality management
- Secure firmware update
- Improved RAID 10 configuration
- 4 KB sector disk drives
- Physical disk power management
- Types of virtual disk initialization
- Background initialization
- Consistency checks
- Disk roaming
- FastPath
- Virtual disk migration
- Virtual disk write cache policies
- Virtual disk read cache policies
- Reconfigure virtual disks
- Fault tolerance
- Deploying the PERC card
- Removing the PERC H730P MX adapter card
- Installing the PERC H730P MX adapter card
- Removing the PERC 9 adapter
- Installing the PERC 9 adapter
- Removing the HBA330 mini monolithic controller
- Installing the HBA330 mini monolithic controller
- Installing a H730P slim card
- Removing the PERC 9 mini blade controller
- Installing the PERC 9 mini blade controller
- Removing the PERC FD33xD Card
- Installing the PERC FD33xD card
- Driver installation
- BIOS Configuration Utility
- Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility
- Exiting the Configuration Utility
- Menu navigation controls
- Setting up virtual disks
- BIOS Configuration Utility menu options
- Virtual Disk Management
- Creating virtual disks
- Selecting virtual disk parameters
- Initializing virtual disks
- Checking data consistency
- Running a data consistency check
- Importing or clearing foreign configurations using the VD mgmt menu
- Importing or clearing foreign configurations using the foreign configuration view screen
- Break mirror
- Managing preserved cache
- Managing dedicated hot spares
- Deleting virtual disks
- Deleting disk groups
- Clearing the configuration
- Physical Disk Management
- Physical disk erase
- Converting physical disk to Non-RAID or RAID capable
- Setting LED blinking
- Creating global hot spares
- Removing global or dedicated hot spares
- Replacing an online physical disk
- Restrictions and limitations
- Stopping background initialization
- Performing a manual rebuild of an individual physical disk
- Controller Management
- UEFI/HII RAID configuration utility
- Entering the UEFI configuration utility
- Exiting the UEFI configuration utility
- Navigating to Dell PERC 9 configuration utility
- Configuration management
- Creating virtual disks
- Creating profile based virtual disks
- Converting physical disks to RAID capable disk
- Converting physical disks to non-RAID disk
- Viewing disk group properties
- Viewing disk group properties
- Managing foreign configurations on a RAID controller
- Deleting existing configurations on a RAID controller
- Controller management
- Virtual disk management
- Physical disk management
- Hardware components management
- Controller management (Ctrl Mgmt)
- Controller management actions
- Dirty cache data error message
- Discovery error message
- Drive Configuration Changes Error Message
- Security key and RAID management
- Troubleshooting
- Adapter at baseport not responding error message
- BIOS disabled error message
- BIOS configuration utility error messages
- Discovery error message
- Extra enclosure error message
- Missing disks in virtual disk error message
- Previous configuration of disks removed error message
- Missing virtual disks error message
- Dirty cache data error message
- BIOS disabled error message
- Drive Configuration Changes Error Message
- Adapter at baseport not responding error message
- Offline or missing virtual drives with preserved cache error message
- Virtual disks offline error message
- Virtual disks degraded error message
- Virtual disks partially degraded error message
- Memory or battery problem error message
- Firmware fault state error message
- Foreign configuration found error message
- Foreign configuration not found in <ctrl> <R> error message
- Previous configuration cleared or missing error message
- Invalid SAS topology detected error message
- Configured disks removed or not accessible error message
- Discovery error message
- Windows operating system installation errors
- Extra enclosure 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 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 fails during reconstruction on redundant virtual disk
- 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
- Disk Carrier LED Indicators
- HII error messages
- Appendix RAID description
- Getting help
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 User’s Guide H330, H730, and H830
Driver installation
The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9 series of cards require software drivers to operate with the supported operating systems.
This chapter contains the procedures for installing the drivers for the PERC 9 cards.
NOTE:The drivers for PERC 9 for VMware ESXi is packaged within the VMware ESXi ISO image downloaded from Dell. For more information, see the VMware documentation at
Dell.com/virtualizationsolutions. It is not recommended to have drivers from controllers prior to PERC 9 on the same system.
The two methods for installing a driver discussed in this chapter are:
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Installing a driver during operating system installation: Use this method if you are performing a new installation of the operating system and want to include the drivers.
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Updating existing drivers: Use this method if the operating system and the PERC 9 family of controllers are already installed and you want to update to the latest drivers.
NOTE: It is recommended that you update existing operating system drivers after installation. Native driver support is available for Windows 2012 R2.
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