A friend had an old Windows Home Server NAS with 4 drives. He experienced a power outage which seemed to wipe out his NAS (no UPS). He tried to access the drives in a caddy, but couldn't see any data (he thinks it was setup as mirrored or as RAID - not sure). For some reason he formatted the drives and attempted to recover the data (mostly family pics). When images are recovered they are not shown and look corrupted.

Is there anyway these can be recovered?

I can obtain an old Poweredge 1950 III server with an Intel Xeon 5420 processor installed  and a SAS6ir raid controller. The spec sheets says it supports virtualization, I plan on using 2012R2 as the host. Are there any issues I need to be aware of as this is obviously an old platform. This config is for testing purposes

Hello,

We have a old windows 2003 server with 4gb of ram with hardware raid 5. We are going to retire this server, but before we do so we need to transfer/clone/mirror about 900gb of data.  The problem is that it has almost 6 million files and any type of data transfer I have tried runs really slow.  I am thinking if there is a way to do with clonezilla or any other software that you guys can suggest.

Thanks

I purchased four HP DL 380 G7 servers off ebay. The final goal is to eventually load ESXi 6.0 on each, but my question here is about the first step -  configuring the RAID array.

I've looked through some youtube videos and it appears the folks are using HP SmartStart Setup and Install CD (ver8.70) and using the Maintenance/HP Array Config & Diag utility to control the P410i in creating the array.

I had a very hard time finding this software CD. I had to choose HP DL 380 G7 and then choose an O/S in order to see it listed. I saw it listed under Windows 2003 and Windows 2008R2.
Windows 2003      - Shows a 32 bit version
Windows 2008R2 - Shows a 64 bit version

Does it make any difference which "HP SmartStart Setup and Install CD" I choose? I downloaded the 64 bit version from Windows 2008R2  thinking it doesn't matter if all I'm doing is using the RAID utility. Does it matter if its 32 or 64 bit version? Again the end game is to install ESXi 6.0.

I had a healthy 2012 server with 8 (RAID 5/software RAID) sata hard drives and two raid 1 c hard drives with the Operating system on the C rive/raid 1critical data no back ups. The server crashed and had to rebuild the server. Problem is when I finished building the server and tried to import the drives instead of coming up 8 of 8 drives they come in two sections. One is 4 of 4 disks and the other is 4 of 4 disk. In each of the times I attempted to import it sees the total size but says  and  I am paraphrasing "data incomplete and will be destroyed if ok is selected. I dread importing the data 4 disk at a time because it would destroy the data. Anyway to get the disk computer management to display 8 of 8 and help save all my data.

Hello,

Dell Disk storage  array was attached to the sever, I removed the cable  storage to server  and when I boot got this message.

Foreign configuration(s) found on adapter
Press any key to continue, or 'C' to load the configuration utility.
 
All of the disks from your configuration are gone.  If this is an unexpected message, then please power off your system and check your cables to ensure all disks are present.
 
Press any key to continue, or 'C' to load the configuration utility

I believe it found RAID info on the disk, we just need to  import the config. Am I right?

Dell R710 - 4 disks in a RAID5
Disk in Slot 3 - Predicted Fail - status light blinking green to amber, back to green to amber..
NO IDRAC in this server
Host OS - XenServer 6.2
VMs - 1 Virtual Machine running on XenServer

Using MegaCli ran the following command to force the drive offline
./MegaCli -PDOffline -PhysDrv [32:3] -a0
(returned that drive was offline)

Verified drive was offline by running
./MegaCli -PDInfo -PhysDrv [32:3] -a0

*** NOTICE LINE BELOW THAT SAYS Firmware state: Offline ***
Enclosure Device ID: 32
Slot Number: 3
Drive's position: DiskGroup: 0, Span: 1, Arm: 1
Enclosure position: N/A
Device Id: 3
WWN:
Sequence Number: 3
Media Error Count: 21
Other Error Count: 0
Predictive Failure Count: 34
Last Predictive Failure Event Seq Number: 17284
PD Type: SAS

Raw Size: 279.396 GB [0x22ecb25c Sectors]
Non Coerced Size: 278.896 GB [0x22dcb25c Sectors]
Coerced Size: 278.875 GB [0x22dc0000 Sectors]
Sector Size:  0
Firmware state: Offline
Device Firmware Level: 0008
Shield Counter: 0
Successful diagnostics completion on :  N/A
SAS Address(0): 0x5000c50048669fa9
SAS Address(1): 0x0
Connected Port Number: 3(path0)
Inquiry Data: SEAGATE ST3300657SS     00086SJ3FV95
FDE Capable: Not Capable
FDE Enable: Disable
Secured: Unsecured
Locked: Unlocked
Needs EKM Attention: No
Foreign State: None
Device Speed: Unknown
Link Speed: Unknown
Media Type: Hard Disk Device
Drive Temperature :36C (96.80 F)
PI Eligibility:  No
Drive is …

Hi, I use Dell PowerEdge 2950, controller is PERC 6/i integrated
In OMSA web interface I see a warning related to one of my two virtual disk.
(some times ago I replaced one disk, probably I was not aware that rebuilding failed to start!)

What is correct process (see attachment) to fix this warning ?
In "available task" I have only blink , unblink.
Thankyou
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Hi all,

We've got a server that has a RAID 10 on there and have partitioned the volume into 2, one partition has the OS on it and the other has the data but we've put in a RAID1 pair of SSD's so i was planning on creating the RAID and then cloning the OS onto the new RAID but then how do i get the server to boot from the new drives instead of the current partition ? It's a Dell Poweredge running 2012 R2 ?

Thanks

Ian

We recently started getting a bunch of fatal errors listed on our main server's RAID.  checking the status it shows as no errors and system is optimal, but these errors keep showing up and once I started a consistency check it started listing a bunch more.

not sure what to do next as these errors don't tell me much....

and am I at any risk of losing data at this point?

Thanks

Denten
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My client has an HP Proliant ML350G6 server. OS is on a pair of mirrored 145GB drives. Data is on a RAID 5 array of 1TB drives. The OS drives are getting really full after years of updates. These are 2.5" SAS drives. What would be the best way to get the OS on to larger drives short of a new server? Is it even possible? OS is Server 2008 R2.

Hello All,

I am currently setting up a Dell server. I am now in the process of Deploying an OS utilizing the "Deploy OS" option in the life cycle controller and it let me select between UEFI and BIOS. I am aware that UEFI has a lot more options than BIOS, but I am not sure if it will work well in my situation and with the configurations that I have been task with. Some of the configurations that I have to perform are the following:

1) Harden the BIOS by securing it with a password

2) Configure 2 virtual disks (both configured with RAID 10) one for OS and second one for data. Both disks ending with 1.7 TB and 10 TB respectively after the RAID 10 configuration.

so with the requirements stated above, I am left with the questions below:

- if I decide to choose UEFI, can I harden UEFI with a password as I can do with BIOS?

- and if I decide to go with BIOS, will it support the size of my drives?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you!

Hello:

I have 4 drives from our server that was configured in a raid 5.   i want to format this drive on my pc but it is not recognized.  I already went into admin tools and looked for the drive and still does not show up.  they were active in the server.

Thanks