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Dell Shared PERC 8 manual available for free PDF download: User Manual
Dell Shared PERC 8 User Manual (35 pages)
Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 8 User's Guide
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Dell
| Category:
Computer Hardware
| Size: 1.26 MB
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
3
1 Overview
5
Supported Operating Systems
6
Related Documentation
7
Locating Your System Service Tag
7
Contacting Dell
7
Documentation Feedback
7
2 Shared PERC 8 Card Features
9
Physical Disk Power Management
9
Consistency Checks
9
Virtual Disk Initialization
9
Background Initialization of Virtual Disks
9
Full Initialization of Virtual Disks
10
Fast Initialization of Virtual Disks
10
Disk Roaming
10
Using Disk Roaming
10
Fastpath
11
Configuring Fastpath-Capable Virtual Disks
11
Virtual Disk Migration
11
Migrating Virtual Disks
12
Virtual Disk Cache Policies
12
Virtual Disk Write Cache Policies
12
Virtual Disk Read Cache Policies
13
Fault Tolerance
13
The SMART Feature
13
Patrol Read
14
Physical Disk Failure Detection
14
Physical Disk Hot Swapping
14
Auto Replacement of a Virtual Disk Member and Revertible Hot Spares
14
Controller Cache Preservation
15
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle
15
3 Deploying the Shared PERC 8 Card
17
Removing the Shared PERC 8 Controller
17
Installing the Shared PERC 8 Controller
18
4 Driver Installation
21
Accessing the Device Driver Media for Windows Driver Update
21
Downloading Drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools Media for Windows
21
Downloading Drivers from the Dell Support Website for Windows
22
Updating Existing Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012
22
5 Management Applications for Shared PERC 8 Card
25
6 Troubleshooting
27
Controller Boots into Safe Mode
27
Degraded State of Virtual Disks
27
Performance
28
General Issues
28
Shared PERC 8 Card Has Yellow Exclamation Mark in Device Manager
28
Shared PERC 8 Card Not Seen in Device Manager
28
Physical Disk Issues
28
Physical Disk in Failed State
28
Unable to Rebuild a Fault Tolerant Virtual Disk
28
Fatal Error or Data Corruption Reported
29
Physical Disk Displayed as Blocked by Management Application
29
Multiple Disks Become Inaccessible
29
Rebuilding a Failed Physical Disk
29
Virtual Disk Fails During Rebuild Using a Global Hot Spare
30
Virtual Disk Fails During Rebuild Using a Dedicated Hot Spare
30
Virtual Disk Fails Rebuild Using a Dedicated Hot Spare
30
Physical Disk Takes a Long Time to Rebuild
30
SMART Errors
30
SMART Error Detected on a Physical Disk in a Redundant Virtual Disk
30
SMART Error Detected on a Physical Disk in a Non-Redundant Virtual Disk
31
Auto Replacement Member Errors
31
Source Disk Fails During Auto Replacement Member Operation
31
Target Disk Fails
31
General Disk Fails
32
Disk Carrier LED Indicators
32
7 Appendix: RAID Description
33
Summary of RAID Levels
33
RAID Terminology
33
Disk Striping
33
Disk Mirroring
34
Spanned RAID Levels
34
Parity Data
34
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