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Hi,

Have installed a new SSD off an LSI Megaraid 9265-8i RAID controller and the MegaRaid BIOS recognizes it as an SSD but ESXi 5.0 does not; it considers it non-SSD in vSphere Client and vCenter. What am I missing?

I have a FAS 2040 with 12 - 1TB SATA drives and a DS4243 with 24 - 450GB SAS drives. I am new to NetApp. How can I cable these? I will be using iSCSI. I plan to use the SATA drives as CIFS for Windows users. For the SAS shelf I plan to connect...

I am kind of new HP's management tools.  I am trying to figure out how to get Insight Manager working.  When i browse to http://esxi:2381 it fails.  What am I missing??  Here is what I've done:

- I downloaded the HP/ESXi 5 integrated iso from...

I have a topology with four Windows Server 2008 R2 servers with Hyper-V forming a Failover Cluster. I have attached 4 CSV LUNs to the cluster. Cluster Validation wizard does not produce any errors, however in the Cluster event logs I am receiving...

Hi All,

I need some advice regarding a HP SmartArray P800 RAID 5 array the doesn't rebuild.

A little while ago one of the array drives failed in a RAID 5 array.  The server is out of HP warranty but is under hardware support so we contacted...

We have a Proliant ML150 generation 6 tower server.  It is already running Win2008 R2 server with one HD.  This server has an embedded B110i SATA RAID controller which supports Raid 0, 1 and 1+0.  We wish to reconfigure this server with 3 SATA...

Hello All,

This is my first ML110 G7 server install, although I have installed about 50 G5 and G6 servers in the past so I am familiar with the general process used.

This is a brand new ML110 G7 server straight from the box, with the...

Hello Experts,

I am looking for a good documentation to learn how to install and configure a storage netapp FAS2240

Hi All,

I have a management server which I use for things like Backup Exec, Syslog and my Symantec EndPoint Protection Management server which is a HP Proliant DL160 G6 runnig Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise.  It has been running EndPoint 11.1 for...

I wonder if someone could offer some advice/assistance.
We have several HP Proliant Servers (ML/DL) which have the cached accelerator board, which have shown as the battery failing.

We have replaced the battery, only for it to show as failed...

Hi,
we are using ESXi 5.0 (free licence) where SBS2011 and S2008 is running.
Now we want to set up fax on the SBS20011 machine.

How should we do that?

Because there are often problems to use PCI-Cards in virtual machines my idea was to...

Hello, I need to setup an HP  DL120 G6 server. I want to set it up with 2 HDD's in RAID 1 When  I enter the BIOS I have 4 options for the setup of the integrated SATA controller, AHCI, RAID and Disabled. Whichever one I select, the RAID setup...

I have 2x Dell servers (PowerEdge 2800 / 2900) and I have used Dell System Builder DVD's to install the operating systems.  The operating systems are Server 2008 32 bit and Server 2008 R2.  I have noticed that the Open Manage admin tools are not...

I have downloaded the .scexe file but do not know how to extract the .bin file I need to update the iLO. I copied it down to the ESXi server and ran sh ./CP015685.scexe.  I get an error - Make sure these programs are on the path: tar gzip tail...

I have a new Dell R720 server with 4 1Gb NIC ports.  Both the server and the network adapters are on VMWare's compatibility list.  When I begin the install from the burned ISO Image downloaded from VMWare, it stops at this error and I can only...

Hi Everyone,

Have a Dell Poweredge R710, that i am trying to add some RAM to.

Currently has 24GB in one of either two configurations that works:

1) 4xx-4xx-4xx CPU CPU xx4-xx4-xx4  in optimized mode
2) xxx-222-222 CPU CPU 222-222-xxx in...

Hi Guys,

I have a problem with accessing Netgear ReadyNAS from Windows 2008 domain controller.
it says \\192.168.0.201 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network source. Contact the administrator of this server to...

Received an message from hp proliant alrert.:

Source:             Storage Agents
Type:               Warning
Category:           (4)

Description:
An 'Accelerator Board Battery Failed' trap signifies that the agent has detected a battery failure...

I downloaded and burned a the DVD for Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard without Hyper-V (x64) - DVD (English). (from MSDN Subscriptions)
The comptuer boots to it (no other OS installed) and begins the installation.  The...

I've found very sparse and conflicting information on what CPUs support Extended Page Tables.  I have HP Proliant DL360 G6/7 servers, all with Nehalem CPUs.  The model numbers are 5540 and 5565.  

I'm running VMware ESXi 5.0, and within the...

I've got a HP thin client T5565Z

I am having trouble connecting to our external server and so I am trying to update the certificates.

The problem i am having is how do I access Administrator mode on these thin clients.

When I power it...

Hi,

I am trying to set up a cluster using an MD3200 (Not the MD3200i).  I have been following the directions as per http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/powervault-md3200-series-hyper-v-implementation.pdf I have the cables...

I have a new Dell R310 with an idrac6 express and can't access the idrac web interface after configuration. I've configured the idrac through BMC Configuration Utility (Ctrl+E at startup) with the following settings:

IPMI Over LAN = ON
NIC...

Hi,

HP ML350 G5

I want to replace my 146GB spare number : 418399-001

I want to install sata2 Corsair GT SSD Drive in the server with 2.5 HP Hard drive caddy.  

This should be "Plug and play" or I need to order a connector for the SSD...

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to use hardware raid on an external array enclosure?  The external enclosure will be connected by fibre channel adapters to the server.  The server is an IBM x3650.  There will be two fibre adapters that will be...

Please advise howto install ssd s in hp microserver.
I have brackets but they don t fit, brackers in Microserver don t fit either.
I could use second motherboard/sata -cable but it has to be possible to fit them in the (non hotplug holders?
...

Hi!

Just some quick (I hope) questions...

Have a new DELL PowerEdge T410 Server to install windows Server 2008 R2 on. System has 6 HDDs with a 1TB pair of HDDs for RAID1. The RAID configuration was specified on order as 2x RAID1 and 3x...

I just acquired a server for my 1st ever start up. Yay! Unfortunately, I am the techie in the group and the owner (a software engineer). So, I'm stuck doing sys adminy stuff. I ordered the server with 2 CPUs (Intel® Xeon® Processor E5620), and...

I have a decomissioned Poweredge 2600 server (BIOS A14) with 6@73GB RAID 5 that i thought I would install Free ESXi 5.0 on to play around with.  Am using Free ESXi 4.1 in production.
the PE2600 is not on the ESXi HCL, but I thought I would give...

Hi All,

We are a SMB and in the process of purchasing a SAN Solution.

Some considerations are that I plan on implementing VMWare Essentials Plus Kit as I believe that 3 hosts will provide appropriate redundancy for our operation. Initially,...

I had to recover a Dell Poweredge server recently that started life with 2 x 150GB SATA drives in a mirrored configuration. One drive failed after a few weeks and the 'Dell' engineer replaced it with a 250GB drive.

Anyway, the system became...

I have a hardware dilemma so I am turning to the sharpest group of tech people I know.
 
I am purchasing a new 2U server.  This server will be running VMWare 5.0 esx for the OS, and the main VM running under that will be a windows server 2008...

I have a Dell poweredge 1900 Server, with a 4 hard drive array.
I am use to HP servers that have indicator lights to show if a hard drive in the array  has failed and is off line.  How does the PowerEdge do it or does it?

I am looking at buying a new Dell T310 for our company to use for a new company-wide service program.  I am only looking to have 2 HD with RAID1 since I am on a tight budget.  Can someone explain their options shown below under both the Internal...

Our VNX5300 pool is RAID5, and from what I recall it had to be that way because it was the first pool?  The first 4 disks are RAID5 for the ISO image storage only.  The last disk is a hot spare but the rest we are using also are RAID5 and from...

Hello Experts!

I need some up to date advice about backups and what I should be investigating/buying to last the SMB I work for, for the next few years.

We are looking at getting SBS 2011 and currently have 5TB of data knocking around on...

Hello Experts,

I have asked this question before and I got a semi complete answer.

First some background...

I have a Dell PowerEdge T110II  that has a PERC S100 RAID controller. I understand that this is a software/fake RAID but I need...

When the Server is turned on from scratch & the post reaches the perc 5/i screen it then initializes the drives but they take longer to spin up than the raid card allows so it thinks there is a problem but if you then CTRL/ALT/DELETE at that...

Hi

I currently have a Netapp 2020 box that I may look to upgrade later this year, my reseller has given me a price and recommended a 2040A. My only concern is I dont wont to upgrade that and find out thats going to get phrased out/EOL and...

I have a BladeSystem c7000 in which there are ProLiant BL460c G7 blades.  I cannot kickstart one of the blades as the NIC appears to be unavailable for booting.  When I check the configuration, 'F9' it does not present the Mezzanine Slot 1 NIC in...

I have a Dell R710 with boot to SAN (Compellent) and am now getting random crashes. WinDBG  shows the text below but I can't figure out what exactly to do about this.

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable...

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to add a standalone drive (raid 0) to a perc 6i without losing the data thats on the drive (without formatting, etc.). In OMSA, the create virtual drive wizard seems to nuke the drive, and then requires formatting in...

I have a dell 2950 and I want to put 4 SATA disks 3 TB on it. I am not sure if it will support it.
is there any document or place where I can check if this storage is supported. For HP servers I am using HP buletin, where I can see for which...

I have installed a server sbs 2011 (close match of server 2008 R2 core)
Have four physical HDD ( two * RAID 1 )built using inbuilt RAID card on ufi enabled IBM x3400 M3 server

First RAID set is meant for OS & must be independent to data disk...

We are evaluating between 2 systems
1.ISCSI (10GB) Equallogic 4810
2. EMC Clarion Cx4 (or VNX 5300) - 8gb fiber

having a mixture of SS drives and 15k sas.

We need the most out of IOPS - Reads, we have one very heavily used financial SQL...

I had an HP DL360 G4 completely crash yesterday.  I have several others including an ML350 G3.  How should I monitor these and get warnings that something is failing?  All of them are Windows 2003 server.

Much to my chagrin, I have an LSI SAS6160 SAS Switch in house.  I've connected to an Areca 8026 expander and an LSI MegaRAID 9280-24i4e controller card.  I simply want to zone a set of disks attached to the Areca Expander to the controller card...

Hello, I have a question about converting a single disk on a Dell PowerEdge 2600 (PERC 4/Di embedded) seen as RAID-0 to a RAID-1 spanning two disks. I have an idea on how I want to do this, but I am seeking validation or any pitfalls.
     Right...

Hello,

I have a PE R300 Server that I just replaced two hard drives. It was initially setup for a RAID 1 with two 73 GB HD. Now, I have two 300 GB HD, however when I insert them and run a new Windows Server 2008 R2 installation I see two 300...

Hi everyone,

I am still new to ICT, so every day I am learning more and more. Today I came with some problems with connecting a DAS from Dell (Powervault MD1200) to a Windows Server 2008 R2.

The Dell Powervault has 2 exits for a SAS cable....

I need to add two additional hard drives to an already configure raid 5 array. the machine is a dell pe2850 with perc 4e/di raid controller. I tryed to install dell Open manage server adminstrator where I'm told it's a snap to use and complete...

I just got a used Clariion and I have reconfigured it. I disocovered the issue i am having when i went to connect to my Windows 2008 Backup server using iSCSI. I have registered the host in the Navisphere software, Created the Raid Groups, Luns...

I have two HP ProLiant DL380 G7 servers with the optional second drive cage installed and connected to the HP SAS Expander Card. On both servers when I go to configure the raid by booting off the CD that came with the server I do not see any of...

Since 2007 I've been running SBS 2003 on a Dell Poweredge 840 using a RAID 1 array on a SAS 5/ir controller, which is imaged up nightly using Acronis True Image Server. Initially, the RAID 1 array was comprised of two 300mb drives. On running out...

Hi Guys,

I have an HP ML150 G3 running SBS2003 R2 premium SP2 and also have a new Synology DS411 NAS box (running DSM 3.2, with 4 320Gb drives in Synology Raid 5 config) which we want to expand to.

I want the DS411 to be the main storage as...

Dell server 2003 - DC, file server
RAID 1 (PERC Card) - Two - SAS - Drives - 300 GIG 15k

Drive 0 - Has predicted a fail. Error in event log and Dell System Manager
Dell can no longer sell the drive, some shortage in Thailand from flooding....

Hi.

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 that I would like to attempt to install SSD's on. I have attempted to install Server 2008 R2 onto one of the SSDs which is SATAIII. However, the problem I have is that it will not install onto the HD despite...

I have a WD Elements USB drive I can see in "My Computer" (Windows Server 2008 R2), but is not listed in "Disk Management". Not a big deal normally, but I need to attach it to a Hyper-V virtual machine and can't do that if its not mounted and...

Have 8x HDD's at present, looking at the cage and sas expander.  Will this give me a 16x HDD single array or an additional/second array?

Any performance issues to worry about?

Thanks

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade my ESX 4.1 HP BL460 blades to 5.0.0 or 5.0.1.

My vCenter is 5.0.1.

When I attached the baseline, and scan, it says that it is imcompatible.

I tried with VMWARE's own 5.0.1 and HP's own 5.0.0. Same message....

I have a brand new cisco MCS 7800 server and what to use it as a media server for ciscos DMS and show and share applications for digital signage . I have a co worker who suggests 2003 server 32 bit for it

This seems to me to be archaic

I...

I am looking for a hardware protection appliance for my small business.  I have had many issues with software on server driven solutions and looking for an affordable and direct hardware solution.  My business has four servers including a web...

I have an ML350 G6 with the P410i RAID controller currently setup in RAID-5 using 3 SAS drives.  I loaded the OS and then found out the current configuration isn't going to provide enough storage so I added 3 more SAS drives but cannot expand the...

I have a question about how long it typically takes a RAID 5 to rebuild. I have a Windows 2003 R2 server on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 that has 3 36 GB drives and 3 73 GB drives, 4 GB of RAM, and an Intel Xeon 3Ghz multi-processor. One drive has...

Hi, one of the IT guys in my company wants to buy two servers for his department with the following specs

2x Proliant DL380 G7
96GB RAM each
two X5690 6-core CPU's on each
4x 600GB HDD's local storage on each (RAID5)
10GbE NIC's (is this...

Is it possible to raid a raid config say I get four 2tb hdds and stripe two of them to make 4tbs then can I raid mirror the two 4tb drives?

This doesn't seem possible even talking about it but I thought id ask

Cheers

I have a Dell PowerEdge T100 with the SAS 6/IR card and a mirrored pair of SAS 15K drives. I need to wipe the machine of Windows 32 bit and reinstall Windows 2008 64 so I was wondering if there was a proper cached card that will work with this...

I have a two head setup on our FAS2040 setup with iSCSI. The unit is fully populated with 15K drives. My Maximum sustainable transfer speed off each head is roughly 320Mb/s. I have a new shelf coming which will also have 15K drives. I'm going to...

Hi experts

I plan to use Sata SSD in HP server in Raid1 for a ts server and a MS db server.
Do you know if there any compatibility issues with third party SSD (ex, intel,kingston..)
with those servers.
I know there's HP ssd but those are...

On Sunday, I shut down my server which has 8 vms on for maint. I restarted six of them which i need for production and five of them have a red excamation point by them showing alarm.On the cluster, it said that they were going into failover mode....

Hi,

I am installing Windows 2008 R2 Standard on my new R310. I see following partitions.
Disk 0 Partition 1          OEM (Reserved)
Disk 0 Partition 2: 0S    System

 

What are they used for? Is it safe to remove them?

Thanks,
Veljko

I have a dell powervault md1000 full of 750gb satau 7.2k drives that has a failed drive, i cant seem to find an exact replacement for this. The closest i can find is a 1TB drive of the same speed and form factor. Are these interchangeable? will...

Hello Team,

I have a silly yet very puzzling question.
I've done a reasonable amount of research on the subject but I cant seem to get my head round it. Since most of the research is coming from forums, alot of the questions are situation...

Hello experts I have an  HP ProLiant  DL380  G5 server I have 4 SCSI drives running on the sas controller and also 4 extra empty Bays. I would assume these extra 4 Bays are running on the same controller these are 2.5 inch hard drive bays. My...

Hello,

I would like to build a Raid 0 using two Intel SSD drives.  I setup the raid and it worked fine, but one of the SSDs failed.  

I'd like to purchase another matching SSD to recreate the Raid0, but have a question concerning matching...

Hi,

I have a c7000 enclosure.
presently 2 bl460c G1 in it.

One is ok for now (firmware 1.82)
The other one, I'm trying to upgrade the firmware from 1.26 to 1.82.
I know those are old firmware, but it's working fine on the first one and...

im doing a MCTS course and im trying to import some computers into active directory useing ldifde.exe code below

dn: CN=SERVER10,OU=Servers,DC=contoso,DC=com
changetype: add
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass:...

I have a Dell 2950 server with a Perc 5/i RAID card installed. Recently, I have been getting a warning that the BBU is no longer providing sufficient charge for it to function properly. This was not a terribly serious concern until we had a...

I recently purchased a Poweredge T410 from Dell with a SAS 6/iR RAID controller. Because of the hard-drive shortage, Dell did not offer the drives that I was looking for and the higher-end drives offered in their place were extremely expensive...

Hello Experts,

I have a brand new IBM x3200 M3 server and when I turn it on, it gets stuck at a screen that says "EFI Starting". I left this on overnight and found it still stuck at the same place.

I have noted that this takes place before...

Hi.
Have a HP ML 350G6 with a P410i Raid controller and 3 x 146 GB hotswap SAS drives.
One is defect.

Have swap theese drives many times  (have many customers with this server type)
Some times hot-swapped while server is running and checked...

Hello,

We are currently using Symantec System Recovery to backup our physical servers and Veeam to backup my virtual servers. What happens is we use these two applications to backup of our servers multiple times during the day and then we use...

Hi Guys,

I'm currently working on gathering RDBMS server specs that will use MS SQL Server 2008 R2 which will host geospatial data in the region of 3-5TB with the following general conditions:

- There will be only 1 RDBMS server without HA...

Dear Experts:

We are having 02 servers, 1. HP  DL380 G5 Server 2. Dell power edge 710 Rack server. Installed ESXi 5.0 on the bare metal and running with few VM's on each of the ESXi host.
On each ESXi host 04 nic were available and 02 are...

I need the URL to download the driver for IBM ServeRAID 7T SATA Controller. It's part number is 71P8648. I need the driver for Server 2008 R2.

Please provide me with the exact URL hyperlink of where I can download this driver from.

Hello:

We had a hick-up this morning and it had to do with a bad hard drive on our HP Storage works MSA 20 Hard Drive cage.  more specifically 1 of the hard drives went bad (display is showing "84 Drive Failure Box#1 Bay 11")

This area...

I accidentally pulled the plug on this array device this morning when I was reconnecting some other devices to a UPS. I turned it back on and received error messages that the logical drives have failed. I ran the array diagnostic utility and this...

Old Cluster:
ESX 4.0
Clariion FC SAN

New Cluster:
ESXi 5.0
NetApp - NFS Datastores

We have a few VMs with Mapped Raw LUNs attached in "Physical" compatibility mode. We managed to attach one of our hosts in our new cluster via FC to our...

I have an HP EVA 4400 san that is shared with 3 Windows servers via a StorageWorks 8/8 SAN Switch (Fiber Channel). I have a 4th server that I need to attach to the EVA.  I've never worked with Fiber Channel before and am looking for instructions...

Just bought the server and ATI V7800P video card but can't run it. I need extra PCI-e power lead but inside of this server there is no 12V. any idea? already wasted 3 hours with AMD and HP support.

Hi,

I am looking for a very good powerpoint presentation about storage area network technologies.

Can you please help?

Picked up a Dell T410 server to move to another office.  On boot I get a message "Invalid SAS address present in MFC data.  Please program valid SAS address and restart your system.

I try using Ctrl R to get in the controller but no go.  I am...

I swap two hard drives in a USB dock. The dock appears as removable hardware but the drives apear as regular hard drives, not removable media in My Computer and Device Manager. Windows SBS 2003 assigns the same drive letter to both drives....

Nowadays laptops don't come with DB9 serial ports anymore but
USB ports.  I've lost my USB to DB9 adaptor 2 years ago & don't
intend to get another one.

I have a pair of C3750X-48 switches mounted & just directly beneath
these switches are...

On my EMC Clariion I noticed a sticker on the FC drives 0-4 that says those drives have the array software on them. Can i still use them in my raid array for production. I have noticed most people still use those drives in their raid array's so i...

Hi,
We have inherited an IBM HS21 Blade Centre with a DS4000 SAN. I am trying to Map Hosts to Logical Drives to Create LUN's. Unfortunatly, I can only see the 4 Hosts (Blades) that came already discovered on the SAN. I can't get the SAN to...

Hello, I have an SBS 2003 server that is running a RAID5 array with four 160gb Western Digital WD1600JS hard drives (one is a global hot spare).  I would like to purchase another Western Digital hard drive to have on site in the instance a hard...

Hi,
I have successfuly attached my external USB to a W8 VM as per hanccocka's instructions in Tutorials.
However if possible I would rather format my 2 TB USB external hard drive and connect to ESXi so I could copy either a Clone or Template of...