Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller 10 User’s Guide PERC H345, H740P, H745, H745P MX, and H840
- Contents
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Features
- Controller features
- Virtual disk features
- Hard drive features
- Fault tolerance
- Operating system device enumeration
- Controller mode
- Non-RAID disk
- Deploying the PERC card
- Removing the PERC H345 adapter
- Installing the PERC H345 adapter
- Removing the PERC H345 front card
- Installing the PERC H345 front card
- Removing the PERC H740P adapter
- Installing the PERC H740P adapter
- Removing the PERC H740P mini monolithic
- Installing the PERC H740P mini monolithic
- Removing the PERC H745 adapter
- Installing the PERC H745 adapter
- Removing the PERC H745 front card
- Installing the PERC H745 front card
- Removing the PERC H745P MX adapter card
- Installing the PERC H745P MX adapter card
- Removing the PERC H840 card
- Installing the PERC H840 card
- Part replacement of a PERC card in eHBA mode
- Part replacement of a PERC card in RAID mode with another in eHBA mode
- Driver installation
- Creating the device driver media
- Windows driver installation
- Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation
- Installing the driver after Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer installation
- Updating PERC 10 driver for existing Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer
- Linux driver installation
- Firmware
- HII configuration utility
- Entering the HII configuration utility
- Exiting the HII configuration utility
- Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility
- HII Configuration utility dashboard view options
- Configuration management
- Controller management
- Virtual disk management
- Physical disk management
- Hardware components
- Security key management in the HII configuration utility
- Security key and RAID management
- Security key implementation
- Local Key Management
- Creating security key
- Changing Security Settings
- Disabling security key
- Create secured virtual disk
- Secure non-RAID disks
- Secure preexisting virtual disk
- Importing secure virtual disk
- Import secured non-RAID disk
- Dell EMC OpenManage Secure Enterprise Key Manager
- Troubleshooting
- Single virtual disk performance or latency in hypervisor configurations
- Adapter at baseport not responding error message
- BIOS disabled error message
- Configured disks removed or not accessible error message
- Dirty cache data error message
- Discovery error message
- Drive Configuration Changes Error Message
- Windows operating system installation errors
- Firmware fault state error message
- Extra enclosure error message
- Foreign configuration found error message
- Foreign configuration not found in HII error message
- Degraded state of virtual disks
- Memory errors
- Preserved Cache State
- Security key errors
- General issues
- Physical disk issues
- Physical disk in failed state
- Unable to rebuild a fault tolerant virtual disk
- Fatal error or data corruption reported
- Physical disk displayed as blocked
- Multiple disks are inaccessible
- Rebuilding data for a failed physical disk
- Virtual disk fails during rebuild using a global hot spare
- Dedicated hot spare disk fails during rebuild
- Redundant virtual disk fails during reconstruction
- Virtual disk fails rebuild using a dedicated hot spare
- Physical disk takes a long time to rebuild
- SMART errors
- Replace member errors
- Linux operating system errors
- Drive indicator codes
- HII error messages
- Appendix RAID description
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Table 4. Read policies (continued)
Feature Description
Adaptive read ahead Adaptive read ahead is no longer supported. Selecting adaptive read ahead is equivalent to selecting
the read ahead option.
Virtual disk migration
The PERC 10 series supports migration of virtual disks from one controller to another without taking the target controller offline.
The controller can import RAID virtual disks in optimal, degraded, or partially degraded states. You cannot import a virtual disk
that is offline. When a controller detects a configured physical disk, it flags the physical disk as foreign, and generates an alert
indicating that a foreign disk was detected.
Disk migration pointers:
● Supports migration of virtual disks from PERC H330, H730, H730P, and H830 to the PERC 10 series except for PERC H345.
● Supports migration of volumes created within the PERC 10 series.
● Does not support migration from the PERC 10 series to PERC H330, H730, H730P, H830, H310, H710, H710P, H810.
● Does not support migration from PERC H310, H710, H710P, and H810 to the PERC10 series.
NOTE: The source controller must be offline prior to performing the disk migration.
NOTE: Importing non-RAID drives and uneven span RAID 10 virtual disks from PERC 9 to PERC 10 is not supported.
NOTE: Disks cannot be migrated to older generations of PERC cards.
NOTE: Importing secured virtual disks is supported as long as the appropriate local key management (LKM) is supplied or
configured.
NOTE: RAID 5, 6, 50, and 60 virtual disks cannot be imported in eHBA mode.
NOTE: Virtual disk migration from PERC H740P, H745P, H745, H840 to H345 is not supported.
CAUTION: Do not attempt disk migration during RLM or online capacity expansion (OCE). This causes loss of
the virtual disk.
Virtual disk initialization
PERC 10 series controllers support two types of virtual disk initialization:
● Full initialization
● Fast initialization
CAUTION:
Initializing virtual disks erases files and file systems while keeping the virtual disk configuration
intact.
Full initialization
Performing a full initialization on a virtual disk overwrites all blocks and destroys any data that previously existed on the virtual
disk. Full initialization of a virtual disk eliminates the need for the virtual disk to undergo a background initialization (BGI). Full
initialization can be performed after the virtual disk is created.
You can start a full initialization on a virtual disk by using the Slow Initialize option in the Dell OpenManage storage management
application. For more information on using the HII Configuration Utility to perform a full initialization, see Configuring virtual disk
parameters.
NOTE: If the system reboots during a full initialization, the operation aborts and a BGI begins on the virtual disk.
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