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Is There Anyway to Undo a Quick Initialize from a Perc6/i VD?

I stupidly fast initialized an existing Raid 5 Array Virtual disk with 10 Virtual Machines after creating a new Raid 5 Array. The VDs switched order on the list of the Perc Controller. According to Dell, fast initialize only removes the boot files…
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Getting access to physical drives in ESXi v5.5 installation on Dell PowerEdge R710 with PERC 6/i

I've acquired a Dell PowerEdge R710 server a few days ago, which includes a PERC 6/i RAID controller. The server is now fitted with a SATA SSD, one SAS drive and four SATA HDD's, all of which I would like to be passed through to ESXi in an "as-is"…
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256MB vs. 512MB RAID, is there a big difference?

Just got off the phone with Dell, who told me that there's not much difference from 256MB to 512MB on their Perc6 controllers. I'm aiming for a very fast MySQL server with 4 data disks in RAID10 15k, and 2 root disks RAID1. Any advice pls.
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Are there any Windows 7 applications that can veiw RAID status on a PERC 6/e?

I am trying to troubleshoot an MD1000 that is plugged into a PERC 6/e that is in a Precision T3600 running Windows 7. Windows can see, use, and push and pull data on the RAID 50 array on the MD1000, I just can't see the status of the controller or…
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Dell PE 2950 PERC 6/i Controller. How to add 2TB local SATA as a Raw Disk Mapping to ESXi 5.1 VM

Dell PE 2950, PERC 6/i Controller. - ESXi 5.1 installed/Boot from USB drive - 2 x 1 TB SAS drives in RAID 1 - Datastore1 - 1x 2TB SATA drive set as RAID 0 We wish to host all our VMs from Datastore1 and add the 2 TB SATA as a Raw Disk mapping to…
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Dell PERC6/i - Converting from RAID 5 to RAID 6 - Possible?

I have a PowerEdge 2900 III with a PERC 6/i Controller. The PERC has 2 arrays, each one with 3 hard drives and each hard drive is the same size/speed (146GB 15K rpm SAS). I would like to delete the second array and add those disks to the first, so…
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Dell Poweredge R410 replace PERC S100 with PERC 6i

I want to replace the PERC S100 RAID Controller with a PERC6i to be able to use 4 SAS harddrives instead of only SATA drives. What exactly do I need for this, what I've got so far: PERC6i PCIe x8 card. 4 x SAS 300GB 15000rpm drives Some questions…
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PERC 6i With external Enclosure Raid Questions

Okay so I am buying some used hardware on ebay and found a few poweredge servers for a good price. These servers come with a PERC 6i card and 4x 146gb internal SAS drives. I want to purchase a 8 Bay Hard drive enclosure that has 2 SFF-8470 ports. My…
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Can I do a Raid 5 with a SAS6i/R?

I have a PowerEdge 2970 server with a: SAS6i/R Integrated Controller for PowerEdge 2950/2970, x6 Backplane http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/cables/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=corp&sku=330-2277 I just bought 3 hard drives that I plan to…
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Recover data from PERC 6/i RAID5 array using software RAID

I have 4 hard drives from a RAID5 array from a Dell server that suffered physical damage to the PERC 6/i RAID controller card. The 4 disks themselves are undamaged and I've created 4 disk images using ddrescue. Is there a way in Debian to recover…
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Dell 2950 Perc 6/i "physical disk" and "Enclosure(Backplane)" under Connector 1 in OMSA tree- Troubleshoot help

Just looking for someone who might know why this could occur... In OMSA, on my Dell 2950, there usually is only one "Physical Disks" child under "Enclosure (Backplane)" in the tree view. Currently, the tree looks like this: Dell PERC 6/i…
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What is the difference between the intergrated perc controller and the addon perc controller on a Dell 610

I'm looking at the Dell 610. It comes with a PERC 6/I integrated controller card, whats the difference between this and the available add on card which is a PERC6E Raid Controller ? My goal is to have disk mirroring. Cheers, MrT
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Is mismatched firmware on drives in a raid-6 a bad thing?

I recently expanded a raid-1 to a raid-6 with six drives. I ordered all four of the new drives from the same place, and all of them were advertised to be the same drives as the original two--Seagate 15krpm 146gb. However, when I was looking at the…
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Dell PERC6i raid 0 single drive or USB 3.0 external, which will be faster for backups

I have an older Dell R710 for my personal home server with a pair of PERC6i raid cards in it. I have a drive array attached to one of them where the data lives on different RAIDs, the other PERC6 is attached to the R710's 8 drive bays. I'm…
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Expanding Perc 6/E Raid 6 while in use - Can this cause data loss?

There seems to be a lot of information on the 6/i controller but not 6/E. The Dell manual has bit of information on converting from one raid level to another but it does not specifically answer my question. Also, in researching this I saw a post for…
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