I was having some issues with my poweredge 710 that I got from a friend, tried putting new drives in with a fresh copy of windows server 2019 and the drives would not show. Turns out reading on some forums that a pre-exisitng raid set up could cause this issues. This video helped me out so much and I was finally able to start the OS install. Absolute life saver!
Just wanted to tell you that this video is exactly what I needed to get my R710 Server's Raid configuration in BIOS up an running. Clear, to the point and instructive if you are looking to get the R710 to handle 2 drives that are not showing up when installing ESXi, in my case. Thank you so much!
Just letting ya know r710 raid controller only can compute 2.5tb per VD. I found out the hard way. Great video! I have 4x1tb+4x250gb it wouldn't compile them all into RAID0 1 VD. I had to split into 2 VDs 1 VD for the 4x250gb, 1VD for the 4x1TB. So why cant i get all 4TB working in 1 vd but not stacked together?
this is about the best i seen so far on using The PERC 5, thank you. But just a question real quick, when you do initialization, if there is a operating system on the drives, does the fully wipe it, where you can do something like install a fresh copy of windows server 2003?
thanks a lot dude! I have a further question. Is it possible to install 2 new hard drives and make them RAID 1 while the original HD running the OS without any RAID?
I got a cheap R610 server with just a 1.2 TB 10K SAS disk, but the performance of the vms are very slow. Can i improve the performance attaching more drives?
I have a Dell poweredge R510 with a Perc 6/I raid controller. I have 5 drives (2TB per Drive) in RAID 5 with 1 PD as a dedicated hot spare. I need to now make the partition in windows. It’s over 2TB so I assume I select GPT vs MBR? Do I create the partition in disk management as a simple partition or what partition do I select? Thanks!
Hi sir i have problem on my dell R710 server . I have a three drive on my server on of them is damage i put a new one drive on server . The new drive is ready state the old two drive is online . What can i do farther. Plz help me
Hello Sir, You video is really awesome but I get an error when I hit ENTER, the error says "Virtual disk creation failed". For your information I am using brand new hard drives and in PD management it's showing as READY state. you advice will be of great help.
Hi, really cool video!, i have a question, if i make a Raid 1(with 2 hdd) and whant to take out 1 of the disk from the Raid 1 and use it for extra space, how i can do this? i look for this over the internet for a week without geting a clear answer, Note: i cant loose the info, just whant to format 1 of the disk for extra space. Thx!
I have a question. Just purchased a Poweredge t610 (the tower variant) - for home usage............ How reliable do you reckon the RAID system is on this old hardware? I'd hate to set up RAID and have it fail. I guess it's a difficult question to ask, but would you know what the failure rate is after 10 years? Thanks.
Its actually not bad I've ran old units for a long time and everything in a server is meant to be redundant. If the controller fails the drives are still active and the cache keeps the RAID configuration. I suggest keeping a spare RAID controller to prevent any down time and a spare drive
Could you please show us how to change the hard drive status from the Blocked to the Ready I am stuck on this one. I am trying to GPART hard drive using GPARTED Live for that I need to make RAID 0 on each hard drive to be able to see in GPARTED but few storage devices are coming up as Blocked so I can not apply RAID on it. I have tried with the firmware updates but still the result is same. I am not sure what I am missing here. I am using R630 and PERC is H730. I would really appreciate if you can enlighten me with the procedure of to unlock the storage device in PERC H730 Dell R630. Thank you for your time :)
Hi there .. Could really use your help. I am trying to set RAID 0 on the Dell T7500, using its onboard Marvell SAS controller for a backup drive and use an SSD as my boot drive. The system anyhow is not working as it expects me to load the OS on the raid drive. Can i set up SSD for boot and the RAID drives as a backup ? Is this a valid option ?
Do you have the model number of the onboard SAS controller. in order to run a back up you would have to run to partitions one RAID independently for the SSD and one RAID for the back up drive
Hi, I have a problem with my R710. I bought 4TB HDD and i want make a new VD, but in RAID configure console it just shows me 2TB of my HDD space. what should I do. I update every possible firmware by the way. Thanks
is there a way for the computer to see the 2 drives as two separate drives like on a normal PC? I have 2 1tb drives in the r610 that i want to store 2 separate libraries on. in a raid they backup to each other correct?
RAID-0 would be close. It just does striping, but I'm guessing it might show up as one large drive. What you want is JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) or "no RAID". I might look around for that option. Unfortunately, my two R610s are currently in production on a work day, so I'm not going to reboot one just to look at the config. Sorry. :-) I just thought of a possible way. Just configure two VDs, each with one drive in it. That ought to do.
I was having some issues with my poweredge 710 that I got from a friend, tried putting new drives in with a fresh copy of windows server 2019 and the drives would not show. Turns out reading on some forums that a pre-exisitng raid set up could cause this issues. This video helped me out so much and I was finally able to start the OS install. Absolute life saver!
Just wanted to tell you that this video is exactly what I needed to get my R710 Server's Raid configuration in BIOS up an running. Clear, to the point and instructive if you are looking to get the R710 to handle 2 drives that are not showing up when installing ESXi, in my case. Thank you so much!
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Finally a fast and simple one for configuring my server
For those who are newbies, you must press Ctrl R to access the Virtual Disk Management.
thank you
Thanks for the informative video. you have helped me where I was stuck for an hour of operation.
Sweet bud, very clear and concise. Easy to follow, subbed!
Thanks for the video, especially the fast initialization. I have done some regular init's and it took over 24 hours for the drives to be cleared.
Many, many thanks! Exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you. This video has very helpful, and not excessively talky at all. Well done!
Really enjoy your video keep up good work it's really help me a lot to configure the VD
Thanks for making this video. It made it a breeze to set this up on my Dell PowerEdge R520.
Thank you very much!
Fast and simple way.
How wonderful, very, very, very wonderful explanation method, do more videos
Excellent video, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this video, greatly helped
Super thanks for the video. Worked perfectly on my PowerEdge R610
Thanks this really helped me get my server running, so much different then setting up a desktop pc.
Pls hep me dell server Reid configuration
Thank you for this video! Could you make another video and hit the keyboard a little more harder? It's not loud enough. LOL
Awesome and easy to follow thank you!
Crisp and spot on video..cheers
Thank you for a great video, keep up the good work!
that was super helpful~ thanks!
Thank you very much 😊
Thanks for the video! Good Blessed you!
How to enter the virtual disk management page? What key i should press during startup?
Just letting ya know r710 raid controller only can compute 2.5tb per VD. I found out the hard way. Great video! I have 4x1tb+4x250gb it wouldn't compile them all into RAID0 1 VD. I had to split into 2 VDs 1 VD for the 4x250gb, 1VD for the 4x1TB. So why cant i get all 4TB working in 1 vd but not stacked together?
Thank you bro
Thanks bro 👍👍👍👍 great work
Simple and Easy
Thanks,was of great help
Thank you. This was grate.
Succinct and useful. Thank you.
Great Video worked great for me, Thanks
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Nice Video. Answered a few of my questions. As long as I don't Initialize the VD, can I delete a VD to create a different RAID config?
Perfeito, direto ao ponto.
Good value
this is about the best i seen so far on using The PERC 5, thank you. But just a question real quick, when you do initialization, if there is a operating system on the drives, does the fully wipe it, where you can do something like install a fresh copy of windows server 2003?
If you delete the whole RAID Config. and start the initialization you will loose all data so you have to install the OS new (fresh)
Dave Terry
Great video.
Smash that enter key,punch it in the face.
Lol
thaanks for the video ! why is the VD Size less than the PD disk size ?
awesome video!
Thank you so much!
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Ola meu amigo Muito obrigado você me salvou esta em apuros com esse systema que não tinha conhecido parabéns !!!
thanks a lot dude! I have a further question. Is it possible to install 2 new hard drives and make them RAID 1 while the original HD running the OS without any RAID?
i love it soo much plese and make video how to install
WINDOWS init
Great Video
Great video -- Thanks! Also, what is that terminal screen host that you are using to see your boot-up?
It appears to be IDrac
any ideas as to why I cant set a raid level? it's just greyed out for me
great tuto !
I got a cheap R610 server with just a 1.2 TB 10K SAS disk, but the performance of the vms are very slow. Can i improve the performance attaching more drives?
I have a Dell poweredge R510 with a Perc 6/I raid controller. I have 5 drives (2TB per Drive) in RAID 5 with 1 PD as a dedicated hot spare. I need to now make the partition in windows. It’s over 2TB so I assume I select GPT vs MBR? Do I create the partition in disk management as a simple partition or what partition do I select? Thanks!
Hi sir i have problem on my dell R710 server . I have a three drive on my server on of them is damage i put a new one drive on server . The new drive is ready state the old two drive is online . What can i do farther. Plz help me
thanks you
Works the same for the Dell R 920 with E7 chipset.
A question, how do I get the mouse cursor out, is there in that part I have to use a parallel port mouse, I hope for your help, thanks
I have the same problem, how did you solve it?
Hello Sir,
You video is really awesome but I get an error when I hit ENTER, the error says "Virtual disk creation failed". For your information I am using brand new hard drives and in PD management it's showing as READY state.
you advice will be of great help.
Hi, really cool video!, i have a question, if i make a Raid 1(with 2 hdd) and whant to take out 1 of the disk from the Raid 1 and use it for extra space, how i can do this? i look for this over the internet for a week without geting a clear answer, Note: i cant loose the info, just whant to format 1 of the disk for extra space. Thx!
Thanks sir. very useful for me. 5star
I have a question. Just purchased a Poweredge t610 (the tower variant) - for home usage............ How reliable do you reckon the RAID system is on this old hardware? I'd hate to set up RAID and have it fail. I guess it's a difficult question to ask, but would you know what the failure rate is after 10 years?
Thanks.
Its actually not bad I've ran old units for a long time and everything in a server is meant to be redundant. If the controller fails the drives are still active and the cache keeps the RAID configuration. I suggest keeping a spare RAID controller to prevent any down time and a spare drive
ty so much
Could you please show us how to change the hard drive status from the Blocked to the Ready I am stuck on this one. I am trying to GPART hard drive using GPARTED Live for that I need to make RAID 0 on each hard drive to be able to see in GPARTED but few storage devices are coming up as Blocked so I can not apply RAID on it. I have tried with the firmware updates but still the result is same. I am not sure what I am missing here. I am using R630 and PERC is H730. I would really appreciate if you can enlighten me with the procedure of to unlock the storage device in PERC H730 Dell R630. Thank you for your time :)
How do I bypass this? I want the OS to see all drives directly. When I removed all the virtual disks, the OS saw nothing.
Did you find an answer?
10Q I really love it
if im putting freenas on the server should i do this in the controller setup like this or within the freenas UI
i followed your video, but i am still having trouble finding the disk drive and installing windows server
Did you make this using the iDRAC/iLO or does dell have an simulator?
Hi there ..
Could really use your help. I am trying to set RAID 0 on the Dell T7500, using its onboard Marvell SAS controller for a backup drive and use an SSD as my boot drive. The system anyhow is not working as it expects me to load the OS on the raid drive.
Can i set up SSD for boot and the RAID drives as a backup ? Is this a valid option ?
Do you have the model number of the onboard SAS controller. in order to run a back up you would have to run to partitions one RAID independently for the SSD and one RAID for the back up drive
How do you get into the RAID? You vide start in the RAID.
How do you add another drive if you need more space, for Raid 10?
Can I make with a Dell T630 16bays model 2 RAIDS 6 with 8 drives 6TB and stripe the togheter in Windows Server 2012 R2?
My disks show as Ready, how do I get them Online please?
Yo, if anyone has fixed this issue, please respond
How can i make two seperate virtual drives from the two seperate drives?
My new drives show up as READY? howto make them go online?
I also need to make 2 of my 4 drives get to ready. How???
Hi,
I have a problem with my R710.
I bought 4TB HDD and i want make a new VD, but in RAID configure console it just shows me 2TB of my HDD space.
what should I do. I update every possible firmware by the way.
Thanks
You need to switch the drives to GPT and change the BIOS to UEFI in order to recognize 4TB drive
If I had 8 drives could have 4 of them in RAID 1 in 4 groups, or is there a limit on the number of groups ?
no. you can't have the RAID 1 for 4 hard drive, but you can have RAID 5 or 10. But for 8 hard drive I would choose RAID 10.
I don't see why you couldn't. 8 disks 4vds in raid 1
is there a way for the computer to see the 2 drives as two separate drives like on a normal PC? I have 2 1tb drives in the r610 that i want to store 2 separate libraries on. in a raid they backup to each other correct?
RAID-0 would be close. It just does striping, but I'm guessing it might show up as one large drive. What you want is JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) or "no RAID". I might look around for that option. Unfortunately, my two R610s are currently in production on a work day, so I'm not going to reboot one just to look at the config. Sorry. :-)
I just thought of a possible way. Just configure two VDs, each with one drive in it. That ought to do.
will this work on the t710
Yes
I guess it's the same with a H700 ?
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hi can someone advise
me on this as i have new R730 server and not sure which one to configure OS or RAID? what is the best practice and the impact
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I got error invalid SAS MSF server doesn't start up it doesn't even accept ctrl+r
my drives show up but they wont let me put them online
perfect tutorial, but please don't press the enter key that hard
my esxi still cant detect the HD Storage. !!
What button / key do you press to access the perc raid configuration to set up raid on your hard drives
T310 compatible tutorial can anyone help
Could you hit the enter key any harder? LOL Press enter BAM SMASH the enter key! Easy on those keys man
Why are you slamming on your fucking enter key