We have a PowerEdge R610 using PERC 6/i Integrated (Embedded) controller. There is a RAID 1 and a RAID 5 (3 disk). One of the disks failed on the RAID 5, So we purchased additional 300GB disks (1 to replace the defunct, the second to introduce as a hot spare).

The first disk was added successfully into the RAID 5 array. The second disk was inserted, and after trying to add it as a global hot spare, the status changed to 'foreign'. I have been unable to change the status from 'foreign'.

I have attached some screenshots to assist.

Can anyone assist with this please?

Thanks

Hi Folks,

I'm a Server Admin albeit for a small company with a Single Gen 9 HP Prolinient Server that is Virtualized.

The storage is RAID 10 (8 x 1.2TB Drives).

Am running low on space so need to increase.. want to add another (4 x 1.2TB Drives) giving me an extra approx 4TB of space.

Looks like this is all I need to do? Start an Expand and once started I can boot up server? Do it on a Friday night probably let it go over the weekend.
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03510253

I received a E1810 Hard Drive 4 Fault. Review & Clear SEL on my Power Edge T610 server hardware display. This server is out of warranty, and is no longer support.

I am also receiving the following pop ups generated by Dell Open Manager:

         Predictive Failure Report: Physical Disk 0:0:2 Controller 0, Connect 0

      Predictive Failure Report: Physical Disk 1:0:4 Controller 0, Connect 0

      Command Time Out on physical disk: Physical Disk 1:0:4 Controller 0, Connector 1

I have 2 146 Seagate SAS drives configured in  a RAID 1 housing the OS - Windows Server 2008 R2, and 4 configured in a RAID 10 for data. It is the RAID 10 that is showing the failed/predictive fail drive.

I'm feeling all I really need to do is pull the bad drive (hot swap-able) and insert a new Seagate Cheeta SAS drive (same drive as original) to start an auto RAID rebuild. But, nothing ever goes that easy.  I would feel a lot more secure in my pursuit if I had expert advice.

Should I be safe and shut down to change the bad drive, then enter the RAID interface? Should I shut down, replace the drive-boot, then attempt the build from within the Dell Open Manger? Or, can I just hot swap the drive and let the existing RAID perform it's own rebuild?

The user does video editing with Adobe Premiere on an iMac with Thunderbolt.
They are looking for a well-priced 16TB RAID 5

Would the following configuration be good?

• Drobo 5Dt: 5-Drive Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Array with mSATA SSD acceleration - USB 3 and Thunderbolt 2 ports (Empty) DRDR5A21-T  (3.5 stars on Amazon)
• Seagate 4TB IronWolf NAS SATA 6Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (ST4000VN008)  (5 of these)

The cost looks to be about $1100.00

Is there another manufacturer that we should look at?
Any problems with Drobo?


Thanks

I have a client with a windows 2012 server r2 with data drive that fragmented with 1.8 terabytes of data. It's taking forever to defrag, i mean days. This is very nice server with raid 5 (LSI card with 6gbs support and all shows optimal in the web gui) Two 8 core Zeon CPU's, 64 gigs of ram. it has has 6 1 terabyte seagate serial attached scsi drives in it. it has been running fine for a long time. Now it's not. when I noticed the drive was fragmented at 82 percent. Has anyone got any ideas to share?

Hello, I'm looking for a good local backup solution. I'm considering either direct attached storage or a NAS device. I'm looking for something that has the ability to utilize NTFS permissions using my existing AD user/security accounts so that various users within our domain would not be able to access this data without being given specific access. Can anyone recommend something preferably in the "under $500" range with around 4TB of usable space? I'm not real concerned with RAID configurations as this would just be a local redundant backup (already backing up to Carbonite).
Thank you!

Hi Guys, we are a small business we are trying to implement a file server using windows server 2016, we can't afford a h/w raid for now to have a proper NAS. so i'm researching the alternative. so for the data experts out there what file storage NAS can we use in a windows server 2016 AD environment. so far we are comparing unRaid, FreeNas, stablebit drivepool and windows native RAID.

We have to serve 50,000,000,000 requests per day, our app can handle that, but we're not sure if our database skills are there to pick this up. We have a database server with 256gb of ram and 512GB SSD RAID using percona edition. Some of the data needs to stay on the database for 30 days, the transaction table where all requests are stored. what approach do we need to scale this horizontally? each endpoint requests runs about 4 queries...

Hello Experts,

I need to manage a partition in Proxmox.

I have Proxmox working with a SD drive 500 Gigabits.

I added a RAID 1 12 Terabytes disk volume for storage. I need to manage this RAID 1 volume and make it available for the VMs.  I need to partition the Disk and make it available for the VMs.

I am reading about a BIOS change for the VMs and also LVM management.

Not able to make sense of my Google findings:



BIOS and UEFI
In order to properly emulate a computer, QEMU needs to use a firmware. By default QEMU uses SeaBIOS for this, which is an open-source, x86 BIOS implementation. SeaBIOS is a good choice for most standard setups.

There are, however, some scenarios in which a BIOS is not a good firmware to boot from, e.g. if you want to do VGA passthrough. [6] In such cases, you should rather use OVMF, which is an open-source UEFI implementation. [7]

If you want to use OVMF, there are several things to consider:

In order to save things like the boot order, there needs to be an EFI Disk. This disk will be included in backups and snapshots, and there can only be one.

You can create such a disk with the following command:

qm set <vmid> -efidisk0 <storage>:1,format=<format>
Where <storage> is the storage where you want to have the disk, and <format> is a format which the storage supports. Alternatively, you can create such a disk through the web interface with Add → EFI Disk in the hardware section of a VM.

When using OVMF with a …

Hi, trying to replace a failed disk on a Dell Perc S110.  When I try to hit insert to assign the global hot spare as I have done in the past I get the following message/errro.

Not selectable: Disk is in use by a virtual disk

The two hard drives that are still OK are 500 gig Dell drives, I tried a 1 and a 2 T Toshiba, same error.

Thanks all

Hi, I'm looking for a decent RAID card for around 200 or so.  I wanted a Perc controller, but not stuck on it.  I wanted to run RAID 5 with 3 drives and a 4th as a spare.  I just want it to have sata drives, I don't need the SAS connections, and I really don't want a battery, just something better than the onboard connections and software raid.

Thanks a ton all.

Hi. I have a question regarding a predictive failure on a RAID 1 drive on a Dell Poweredge T620. The specifics are that the T620 hosts 2 server VMs, and has a RAID 1 and RAID 5 array, A drive in RAID 1 indicated a predictive failure, and I'm wondering the viability of adding a new drive (NOT the same model as this server is out of warranty), that is a 600GB drive replacing this failing 300GB drive. Is it possible to plug in the new drive, initilize it via the BIOS, then set it up as a hot spare so that the array rebuilds itself using the new drive? If this is possible, do I have to manually use Dell Openmanage to tell the old drive to turn off (it seems to have options for that), or will it automatically rebuild the array upon detecting the failing drive? Thanks.

The main concern is if using a different drive is possible. Is using a larger one okay? I want to hopefully minimize downtime.

I am still somewhat new to Virtualization and I am currently in the process of upgrading/expanding my VM server farm. I was going through some documents and in of the documents it mentions that I should have a separate disk array for each virtual machine on a multiple virtual machine system.

My question is what do they mean? I have a 6 disk server and would like it to host 3 VM's. From how I read the statement above I should configure server into 3 RAID 1 configurations where normally I would configure either a RAID 5 or 10 then split the array into however many disks I need for the 3 VM's.

What is the correct way? Right now I have all of my VM servers configured as RAID 5 the chop up the array into drives for the VM machines