PERC Controllers and RAID Arrays - create, initialize and troubleshoot

Article Summary: This article provides links to helpful knowledge base articles with information on how to troubleshoot various hard drive, PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC), RAID and OpenManage issues

General Info

• How to troubleshoot various Hard Drive, PERC, RAID and OpenManage issues

Creating Arrays on PERC Controllers:

• How to initialize and create a Virtual Disk (VD) with a Dell H700 or H800 controller

• How to create, swap, and manage a Virtual Disk (VD) created with the S100 RAID controller

• How to create, swap, and manage a Virtual Disk (VD) created with the S300 RAID controller

• How to initialize and create a Virtual Disk (VD) with a Dell H200 controller

• How to initialize and create a Virtual Disk (VD) with a Dell H310 controller

• How to use and troubleshoot the S100/300 RAID controller with various Operating Systems

Issues related to the creation of RAID arrays:

• A PERC 5 RAID controller creates concatenated arrays when mixed drives sizes are used when creating RAID 10 or RAID 50 virtual disks