Dell PowerEdge User Manual page 4

Raid controller

Troubleshooting manual (122 pages)

Use manual (44 pages)

System management manual (28 pages)

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Deleting the virtual disks................................................................................................................................................. 22

Swapping two virtual disks............................................................................................................................................. 23

Managing the hot spare disks.........................................................................................................................................23

Assigning the global hot spare disks........................................................................................................................ 23

Assigning the dedicated hot spare disks................................................................................................................. 24

Unassign hot spare disks...........................................................................................................................................24

Viewing the physical disks details.................................................................................................................................. 24

Viewing the virtual disks details..................................................................................................................................... 25

Rescan disks..................................................................................................................................................................... 25

Controller Options............................................................................................................................................................25

Continue to boot.............................................................................................................................................................. 26

6 UEFI RAID configuration utility.................................................................................................................... 27

Entering the DELL PERC S140 Configuration Utility................................................................................................... 27

Exiting the DELL PERC S140 Configuration Utility......................................................................................................28

Controller management...................................................................................................................................................28

Viewing the controller properties............................................................................................................................. 28

Changing the boot order of the virtual disks..........................................................................................................29

Stopping the system from booting if there is a critical BIOS error......................................................................30

Converting a physical disk to a Non-RAID disk...................................................................................................... 30

Converting physical disk to RAID capable disk.......................................................................................................30

Rescan disks............................................................................................................................................................... 30

Virtual disk management..................................................................................................................................................31

Configuring Windows RAID....................................................................................................................................... 31

Configuring Linux RAID.............................................................................................................................................. 31

Manage virtual disk properties................................................................................................................................. 33

Viewing virtual disks properties and policies...........................................................................................................34

Deleting a virtual disk.................................................................................................................................................35

Physical disk management..............................................................................................................................................35

Viewing physical disk properties...............................................................................................................................36

Managing the physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives...........................................................................37

Assigning the global hot spare..................................................................................................................................38

Unassign a global hot spare...................................................................................................................................... 38

Assigning the dedicated hot spare...........................................................................................................................38

Cryptographic erase.................................................................................................................................................. 39

Viewing global hot spares......................................................................................................................................... 39

7 Installing the drivers.....................................................................................................................................40

Pre-installation requirements..........................................................................................................................................40

Setting the SATA controller to RAID mode ............................................................................................................40

Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode ....................................................................................................... 40

Creating a virtual disk.................................................................................................................................................41

Checking PERC S140 options and the boot list priority.........................................................................................41

Creating the device driver media for Windows driver installation..............................................................................42

Downloading drivers for PERC S140 from the Dell support website for all operating systems....................... 42

Downloading drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools media for Windows......................42

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