Dell UCPM-800 - Manuals

Specification Description Multipath support Required for systems with Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 card configuration. NOTE: Multipath is not supported on systems running Linux operating system. Controller failover Available only for systems with Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 card configuration. Supp...

• The PowerEdge VRTX Storage Subsystem Compatibility Matrix provides information on the minimum driver and firmware requirements for the components of the Dell PowerEdge VRTX storage subsystem. • The setup placemat shipped with your system provides information on the initial system setup and configu...

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2 Shared PERC 8 Card Features Some of the features of the Shared PERC 8 card are as follows: • Physical disk power management• Consistency checks• Virtual disk initialization• Disk roaming• FastPath• Virtual disk migration• Virtual disk cache policies• Fault tolerance• Patrol read• Multipath support...

Background Initialization Of Virtual Disks Both Consistency Check (CC) and Background Initialization (BGI) correct parity errors. However, CC reports data inconsistencies through an event notification, whereas BGI is an automatic process. BGI does not run on RAID 0 virtual disks. You cannot disable ...

Using Physical Disk Roaming Perform the following steps to use disk roaming: 1. Turn off the power to the system, physical disks, enclosures, and system components. 2. Disconnect power cables from the system. 3. Move the physical disks to the required positions on the backplane or the enclosure. 4. ...

• Does not support migration from any other PERC cards such as PERC H310, H700, H710, H800, and H810. • Supports migration of virtual disks from the Single Shared PERC 8 card configuration to the Fault Tolerant Shared PERC 8 card configuration, but does not support migration from a newer firmware ve...

NOTE: If the virtual drives are created with write-through as selected mode, make sure that the virtual drives are changed to write-back mode. Conditions under which write-through is employed Write-through caching is used under conditions in which the battery fails or is not present. Virtual Disk Re...

Physical disk failure detection Failed physical disks are detected and rebuilds automatically start to new disks that are inserted into the same slot. Automatic rebuilds can also occur with hot spares. If you have configured hot spares, the controllers automatically try to use them to rebuild failed...

Recovering cache data If a system power loss or improper system shutdown has occurred: 1. Ensure all online physical disks are still connected. 2. Restore the system power. 3. Boot the system.Virtual disks are automatically imported and preserved cache (if any) will be flushed to the physical disks ...

Multipath Support Multipathing solutions use redundant physical path components such as adapters, cables, and switches to create logical paths between the server and the storage device. In the event that one or more of these components fails, multipathing logic uses an alternate path for I/O so that...

3 Deploying The Shared PERC 8 Card Follow the documentation in this section to remove or install a Shared PERC 8 card under different scenarios. Installing A New Shared PERC 8 Card For information on how to install a Shared PERC 8 card, see Installing The Shared PERC 8 Card . For information on the ...

Firmware installation or update The VRTX storage subsystem comprises of Shared PERC firmware, drivers, Chassis Infrastructure firmware and the CMC. When updating any of these components, make sure that all the component versions are at a compatible baseline. NOTE: For more information, see the Power...

4 Driver Installation The Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 8 card requires software drivers to operate with the supported operating systems. This chapter contains the procedures for installing the drivers for the Shared PERC 8 card. NOTE: To check operating system compatibility, see dell...

For the list of supported operating systems, see Supported Operating Systems . 3. Click Continue . 4. From the list of drivers displayed, select the driver you require. 5. Select the self-extracting zip file and click Run . 6. Copy the driver to a diskette drive, CD, DVD, or USB drive.Repeat this st...

6 Troubleshooting To get help with your Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller Shared (PERC) 8 card, you can contact your Dell Technical Service representative or see dell.com/contactdell . Performance variations between write-back and write- through cache modes Performance is highly variable across ...

Category Event Reported To the CMC Description of the Failure Corrective Action Critical Error during boot - NVDATA image is invalid - reflash NVDATA image The NVData image is invalid. Contact Dell Technical Support. Degraded State Of Virtual Disks A redundant virtual disk is in a degraded state whe...

Warning event: Event 153, Disk The IO operation at logical block address xxxxxx for Disk x was retried referring to the PercSAS2 driver is seen in the Windows Event log . Corrective Action: These error messages may be triggered under some non-critical cases. See the system status and the CMC logs to...

Fatal Error Or Data Corruption Reported Issue: Fatal error(s) or data corruption(s) is reported when accessing virtual disks. Corrective Action: Contact Dell Technical Support. Physical Disk Displayed As Blocked By Management Application Issue: One or more physical disks are displayed as Blocked and...

Conditions Actions NOTE: Unresolved pinned cache can occur if a virtual drive goes offline for any reason while there is uncommitted cache data in memory. NOTE: Clearing pinned cache means that the pinned data is lost. During a Shared PERC firmware flash, virtual drive transitions to write-through u...

SMART Error Detected On A Physical Disk In A Non-Redundant Virtual Disk Issue: A SMART error is detected on a physical disk in a non-redundant virtual disk. Corrective Action: Perform the following steps: 1. Back up your data. 2. Physically remove the physical disk that detected the SMART error. NOT...

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns Figure 2. Hard-Drive Indicators 1. hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2. hard-drive status indicator (green and amber) Drive-Status Indicator Pattern Condition Blinks green two times per second Identifying drive or preparing for removal Off Drive ready for insertion ...

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