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PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) is a Dell-branded RAID controller that is manufactured by LSI.

PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) is a Dell-branded RAID controller that is manufactured by LSI.

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perccli: How to check the pdcache status for a virtual drive?

The perccli utility (doc page) has an option to set the "pdcache" option, where pdcache means physical drive cache (although I can't find where that's actually defined). From the docs, the syntax is: perccli /cx/vx set…
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PERC H710 says “Update key missing”

I currently scavenged a thrift shop in japan and picked up a working mint condition poweredge T110 II. It’s already been powered up and have ESXi on it. I recently bought a PERC H710 by LSI to upgrade the drives and as soon as i power it up now it…
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Swapped in new SAS drive, RAID still shows degraded, what next?

I need to replace a failed RAID 1 drive on an ancient PowerEdge 2950. The old drive was throwing amber warning lights with the LED showing error 1810. I have a new SAS drive installed and the controller appears to see it. There are two solid green…
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Dell R620 - problems with boot setup

I have an "old" R620 that in a previous life was used as a ESX host. The machine has a 1GB SD card with which had the VMware software on it. I have installed ubuntu on the HD. No matter what I do the machine always defaults to booting from SD…
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Dell PERC H710 Mini: missing volume; drives now show as unconfigured

After power-cycling a Dell R720 with PERC H710 Mini RAID controller, it lost one of 2 RAID volumes I had configured. The RAID configuration utility now shows the drives as "unconfigured", rather than "foreign". How can I recover or reconstruct the…
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How to securely erase drives on PERC H710 mini in Dell

The controller doesn't let me convert drives to JBOD for some reason, so I can't reach them with hdparm to send --security-erase-enhanced ATA command. So I decided to use MegaCli for which I found two different commands but both fail: MegaCli…
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How can I regain access to a RAID volume that I deleted from PERC in the Dell Life Cycle controller?

I'm using a Dell PowerEdge R820 with PERC H710 adapter I had RAID 0 configured across two 1TB SSDs, Drive A and Drive B. I recently bought a 5TB HDD, Drive C. Today, I was attempting to create a RAID 0 volume for Drive C in the LifeCycle controller,…
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RAID10 Performance on newer hardware slower then RAID5 performance on older hardware?

I am currently trying to figure out a performance issue with a new server compared to a old server. Performance should be better but it's not and I'm having trouble figuring out why. Old server is a Dell R640 (2x Xeon Gold 5218, 128Gb RAM) with a…
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Create vdisk in PERC H710 Mini under Debian 11

I have a refurbished Dell R720 server with the PERC H710 Mini raid controller. I can assemble vdisks from physical disk in the BIOS. However, I'd like to create a vdisk without rebooting. I've installed Debian 11 and added the srvadmin tools using…
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how does a striped RAID work with large number of disks?

still trying to configure my large (24) array of disks (2.4TB) for an archive/nas of mixed huge and small files. But apart from this, I am now more focused to understand how striped RAIDs work under the hood but more I read and more I get confused…
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PERC H700: "Virtual disk creation failed" Why?

I try to create a new VD on a drive from the PERC config. I get: "Virtual disk creation failed" The drive has been used before in another system. What do I need to clear, before I can use the drive?
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Embedded SATA on my PE R440

I purchased a PowerEdge R440 with embedded SATA and am wondering is it possible to set up a different RAID with the drives in them? i.e. RAID 1 for the 480GB drives and RAID 6 for the 12TB drives or do I need to have the hardware (H730P)
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remove raid0 from a dell t710 using perc

I got a dell server with 2 physical harddrives that are seen as one, because the system is utilizing raid0. How do we disable this striping, such that we can see two different drives. I'm well aware that this will cause all the data to be erased,…
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Expanding RAID volume on PowerEdge

I have a PowerEdge T620 and R620 with RAID5 volumes on Perc H710P controllers. Can these be expanded in place with no data loss by adding additional drives? I have seen this demonstrated online, but it's not an option in the RAID management…
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What happens to the disk data if the disk is made RAID ready?

I have a PERC H730P mini RAID controller. I have a single physical (non-raid) disk with important data which I falsely executed as "Convert to RAID capable". Apart from this, I haven't done anything else to the disk. My question is that if the…
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