Dell POWEREDGE RAID H700 Manuale utente

Dell PowerEdge RAID

Controller (PERC) H700

and H800

User’s Guide

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

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Model UCP-70, UCPM-70, and UCP-71

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Contents

1 Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

General Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

When Working Inside Your System . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . 12

Battery Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

PERC H700 and H800 Card Descriptions. . . . . . . . . 15

PCI Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Operating System Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

RAID Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Summary of RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

RAID Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3 Storage Controller Features . . . . . . . . . . 21

Physical Disk Power Management . . . . . . . . . 24

Using the SMART Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Initializing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Background Initialization of Virtual Disks . . . . . 25

Full Initialization of Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 25

Fast Initialization of Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Consistency Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Compatibility With Virtual Disks Created

on PERC 6 and H200 Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Migrating Virtual Disks From PERC 6 or

H200 to PERC H700 and H800 . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Write-Back and Write-Through. . . . . . . . . . . 29

Conditions Under Which

Write-Back is Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Conditions Under Which

Write-Through is Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Conditions Under Which Forced Write-Back

With No Battery is Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Reconfiguring Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Fault Tolerance Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using Persistent Hot Spare Slots . . . . . . . . . . 34

Physical Disk Hot Swapping . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Failed Physical Disk Detection . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Redundant Path With Load

Balancing Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using Replace Member and

Revertible Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Controller Cache Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Cache Preservation With Battery. . . . . . . . . . 37

Cache Preservation With

Non-Volatile Cache (NVC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Cache Data Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Battery Learn Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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Patrol Read. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4 Installing and Configuring Hardware. . . . . 41

Installing the PERC H700 and H800 Adapters . . . . . . 41

Removing the PERC H700 and H800 Adapters . . . . . . 46

Removing and Installing the PERC H700 Modular

Card in Dell Blade Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Removing the DIMM From a PERC H700. . . . . . . . . 51

Installing the DIMM on a PERC H700 . . . . . . . . . . 53

Replacing the BBU on a PERC H700 . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Removing the TBBU or TNVC From a

PERC H800 Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Replacing the Battery and Battery Cable Onto

the DIMM of a PERC H800 Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Installing the TBBU or TNVC on a

PERC H800 Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Transferring a TBBU or TNVC Between

PERC H800 Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Setting up Redundant Path Support on the

PERC H800 Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Reverting From Redundant Path Support to Single

Path Support on the PERC H800 Adapter . . . . . . . . 67

5 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Installing Windows Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating the Driver Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Pre-Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2003

Operating System Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Installing Driver During a Windows Server 2008,

Windows Server 2008 R2 Installation. . . . . . . . 72

Installing Windows Server 2008,

Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows

Server 2003 for a New RAID Controller. . . . . . . 72

Updating Existing Windows Server 2008,

Windows Server 2008 R2,

Windows Server 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Installing Linux Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Operating System Using the DUD. . . . . . . . . . 76

Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Using the Driver Update Diskette. . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing the RPM Package

With DKMS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Installing Solaris Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Installing Solaris 10 on a PowerEdge System

Booting From a PERC H700 or H800 Card . . . . . . 80

Adding or Updating the Driver

to an Existing System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

6 Configuring and Managing RAID . . . . . . 81

Dell OpenManage Storage Management . . . . . . . . 81

BIOS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . 82

Exiting the Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Menu Navigation Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Setting Up Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Virtual Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Creating Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Initializing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Checking Data Consistency . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations

Using the VD Mgmt Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Importing or Clearing Foreign Configurations

Using the Foreign Configuration View Screen . . . . 93

Managing Preserved Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Managing Dedicated Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . 97

Deleting Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Deleting Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Clearing the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

BIOS Configuration Utility Menu Options. . . . . . 99

Physical Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Setting LED Blinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Creating Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Removing Global or Dedicated Hot Spares . . . . 109

Replacing an Online Physical Disk . . . . . . . . . 110

Stopping Background Initialization. . . . . . . . . 111

Performing a Manual Rebuild of an

Individual Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Controller Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Enabling Boot Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Enabling BIOS Stop on Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Enabling Auto Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Restoring Factory Default Settings . . . . . . . . . 114

7 CacheCade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

CacheCade Virtual Disk Characteristics . . . . . . . . 115

Configuring and Managing

CacheCade Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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CacheCade Virtual Disk Management . . . . . . 116

Create CacheCade Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 116

Delete CacheCade Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 118

Reconfiguring CacheCade Virtual Disks . . . . . 118

8 Security Key and RAID Management. . . . 121

Security Key Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Configuring and Managing

Secured Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

BIOS Configuration Utility

Security Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Security Key Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Creating Secured Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 125

Securing Pre-Existing Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . 126

Importing or Clearing Secured Foreign

Configurations and Secure Disk Migration . . . . 126

Instant Secure Erase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Troubleshooting Security Key Errors . . . . . . . . . 128

Secured Foreign Import Errors . . . . . . . . . . 128

Failure to Select or Configure Non

Self-Encrypting Disks (non-SED) . . . . . . . . . 129

Failure to Delete Security Key . . . . . . . . . . 129

Failure to Instant Secure Erase

Task on Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

9 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Post Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Degraded State of Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Memory Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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Preserved Cache State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

General Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Physical Disk Related Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Physical Disk Failures and Rebuild Issues . . . . . . . 144

SMART Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Replace Member Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Linux Operating System Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Disk Carrier LED Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

A Regulatory Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

B Corporate Contact Details

(Taiwan Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

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