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HOW TO USE THE DELL PERC H200 CONFIG UTILITY DRIVER
HOW TO USE THE DELL PERC H200 CONFIG UTILITY SOFTWARE

I believe the server is up to date with all BIOS and driver versions. Is it possible the controller doesn't recognize them as available to create a volume because they have partition tables assigned? If so, is there some means to set them back to "completely blank" so the controller will? They are unformatted, but I cans see that they have a GUID partition table assigned if I review them in the OS under properties in Disk Management. They show up in the Configuration Utility as individual drives under the SAS topology menu.

I am wondering how I was able to previously have 3 volumes and switch back and forth between two active volumes.Īlso you asked about the state of the two drives. Nor can I "deactive" the second volume I now have so I can create a new volume.Ĭan you clarify that the H200 LSI configuration Utility will not even show the options for " Select New Volume" " Create New Volume" and " View Volume" if there are already two active volumes? The only option I see is to " Manage Volume" if I go into the " RAID Properties" Menu. What I can't seem to accomplish is to get a condition again where I can create a volume from these two drives. What I see in the LSI configuration utility is the two volumes that are active on drive 0-3, I also see the two drives in question in slot 4 and 5. Probably a mistake given where I am at now with them. So what I did a few days ago was delete the volume in hope of recreating it to make it active. I assume because there was already two volumes on the controller and I now see that the PERC H200 can only recognize a max of 2. When I went to activate the volume, I was unable to. They have been in the system, but not as an active volume. Shortly after purchase, I was able to create a volume from them on this server using this same H200 controller. They were purchased last year, so were not part of the original system. The two drives that I am not able to create a volume for are Dell part number: WD9001BKHG-18D22V0. I believe this will finish up and provide me with the new replacement volume I was looking to create.

Volume 1 needed consistence check, and Volume 2 needs to be initialized.

Now Volume 1 is on disk 0 and 1 and Volume 2 is on new disks 4 and 5.

Used Ctrl + C to go into LSI Config Utility.

Finally, the LSI Config Utility would let me create a new volume out of disks 4 and 5.

Removed volume one’s - Disks 0 and 1, and for volume two - Disks 2 and 3.

Here are the steps I took to finally resolve the short comings of the controller. Once the third has been created, it will show all three and one must remain inactive. If two volumes are created it will not let a third be create even if it is set to inactive. This appears to be tied to the limitation of the H200 Controller. With the disks for the first two volumes inserted, the utility would never show these options. These menus now display once you select the " RAID Properties" Menu. In other words, once I removed the physical disk drives associated with volume one and volume two, The LSI Configuration Utility displayed the menu options for " Select New Volume" " Create New Volume" and " View Volume". Then removing the physical drives associated with Volume one, which caused the LSI Configuration utility to allow another volume to be added.

HOW TO USE THE DELL PERC H200 CONFIG UTILITY SOFTWARE

If I can’t resolve this issue, I may be forced to use these as individual drives and just create a software RAID in the OS. I did this since this card appears to only allow for 2 volumes at a time. This seems to be disabled in the version of the utility. Third, in the past I was able to "Active" and "Deactivate" the volumes. Second, is it possible the controller sees these two drives as "dirty" and will not allow them to be created into a volume? If so how do a rectify that state? Perhaps this newer version or the Config Utility (7.11.10) is missing those menu options? If so can I roll back to a version like with the menus I need to create a volume I was in the process to make the volume active, but couldn't, so I deleted the volume and was going to recreate it.įirst, why do I not get the menu to options to " Select New volume Type" or " Create New Volume" like is mentioned in the Perc H200 Manual/documentation.

The strange thing is that these two drives were once an inactive volume on this controller. However, the Configuration Utility does not give me the options menu screen under the volume screen to Create a new volume. What I am trying to accomplish is create the new RAID 1 volume from these drives. If I drill down into the SAS Topology menu I can see volumes and two additional drives. What happens when I enter the LSI configuration utility using Ctrl + C. I know its not a very good controller, but it has worked up to now. I have a Dell R715 server with a Perc H200 Raid Controller.