Perc 6 controller error
My PERC (Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller) 6 controller is beeping like crazy but the server is up. This is on a Dell server. How can I fix this?

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2011  2:14 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell servers, PERC Arrays, RAID controllers

Installing Windows 2008 on Dell PowerEdge 2950
When I try to install Windows 2008 on my Dell Power Edge 2950 server it can not find any hard drives. I have a perc 6/i controller and 7 scsi drives. Help!

Answer Question   |  March 22, 2012  2:08 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell Poweredge 2950, PERC Arrays, SCSI, SCSI Drives, Windows Server 2008

Setting up RAID 1 +0 on a Dell Server that doesn’t support it
How can we setup raid 1+0 on a dell server that software does not support it? Poweredge 6600, perc3 raid card. Windows 2003 R2.

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  9:06 PM
Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Dell servers, PERC Arrays, PowerEdge, RAID 1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2

Where can I find default RAID 5 configurations for Perc5/I (or similar) for reconstructing the RAID from disk images?
The specific pieces of info I am looking for are default settings for: Disk Order Raid 5 Parity Distribution, Parity Length, Controller-reserved sector information (Reserved from Start sector), Not sure if it makes a difference but it was originally a 4 Disk raid 5, but later RAID was expanded with a 5th disk)

Answer Question   |  June 7, 2010  6:05 PM
PERC Arrays, RAID, RAID 5, RAID configuration, Storage in 2010

Poweredge 2800 No longer boots
One of the servers I manage is a 4.5TB Poweredge 2800 with a powervault 220s running Windows Server 2003 that no longer will boot and is about 10 months out of warranty. I started having some minor problems last week that I assumed were software related but then I did a reboot of the server [...]

Answer Question   |  August 25, 2009  4:35 PM
Dell, Dell PowerEdge 2800, PERC Arrays, PowerEdge servers, Powervault 220s, Server Hardware, Servers, Windows Server 2003

SNMP OID map for Dell servers
I have some older dell servers with snmp v1 that I am trying to monitor. Specifically, I want to monitor the PERC array. Some of them work out of the box with a nagios plugin and others do not. I’m guessing that the ones that don’t work have an older array and have a different [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2009  1:47 PM
Dell servers, OID, PERC Arrays, Server management, SNMP