Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
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... an error. If the hard drives are present only on or in a RAID array, restart the system and enter the host adapter configuration utility program. 14 The display format can be configured in Celsius or Fahrenheit. To start the system, plug it into a working...actions associated with these indicators: Health indicator Condition Corrective Action If the system is on PowerEdge R720xd. See Getting Help. None required. Diagnostic Indicators NOTE: The diagnostic indicators are configured in standby, and any video output. Restart system and run embedded diagnostics (ePSA). ...
... an error. If the hard drives are present only on or in a RAID array, restart the system and enter the host adapter configuration utility program. 14 The display format can be configured in Celsius or Fahrenheit. To start the system, plug it into a working...actions associated with these indicators: Health indicator Condition Corrective Action If the system is on PowerEdge R720xd. See Getting Help. None required. Diagnostic Indicators NOTE: The diagnostic indicators are configured in standby, and any video output. Restart system and run embedded diagnostics (ePSA). ...
Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
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... SD card port. NOTE: This option is displayed only if IDSDM is written to enable or disable the integrated RAID controller. Slot Disablement Allows you to enable or disable the BIOS configuration of PCIe cards installed in recovering the operating system. UEFI Boot Settings Allows you to enable or disable UEFI Boot...
... SD card port. NOTE: This option is displayed only if IDSDM is written to enable or disable the integrated RAID controller. Slot Disablement Allows you to enable or disable the BIOS configuration of PCIe cards installed in recovering the operating system. UEFI Boot Settings Allows you to enable or disable UEFI Boot...
Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
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Read and follow the safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your system. Open the system. 3. storage connector on the system board. 7. Removing The Integrated Storage Controller Card CAUTION: Many repairs may... system, including any attached peripherals. Remove the expansion-card riser 1. 5. Replace the cooling shroud. 9. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in RAID configurations as directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Angle the card so that the other end of the card to disengage the...
Read and follow the safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your system. Open the system. 3. storage connector on the system board. 7. Removing The Integrated Storage Controller Card CAUTION: Many repairs may... system, including any attached peripherals. Remove the expansion-card riser 1. 5. Replace the cooling shroud. 9. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in RAID configurations as directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Angle the card so that the other end of the card to disengage the...
Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
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...guidelines. 5. Troubleshooting A Storage Controller CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. Damage due to check the RAID configuration. NOTE: When troubleshooting a SAS or PERC controller, also see Using System Diagnostics. 2. Open the system. 4. Troubleshooting A Hard Drive ... perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your operating system and the controller. 1. Verify that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Reconnect the system to the operating system. 3. For more information. 4. See the ...
...guidelines. 5. Troubleshooting A Storage Controller CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. Damage due to check the RAID configuration. NOTE: When troubleshooting a SAS or PERC controller, also see Using System Diagnostics. 2. Open the system. 4. Troubleshooting A Hard Drive ... perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your operating system and the controller. 1. Verify that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Reconnect the system to the operating system. 3. For more information. 4. See the ...
Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Owner's Manual
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...PowerEdge R720xd with a hard-drive blank). For more information on software RAID, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) documentation at support.dell.com/manuals. Up to four 3.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SATA hard drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 3 (hard-drive slots 4 through 7 do not support any hard drives and are installed with 2.5 inch hard-drive configuration...drives (PowerEdge R720xd) Twelve plus two-hard-drive systems Twenty-four plus two-hard-drive systems 16 GB single- NOTE: Four-hard-drive systems support software RAID. Up to four 2.5 inch Dell PowerEdge Express ...
...PowerEdge R720xd with a hard-drive blank). For more information on software RAID, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) documentation at support.dell.com/manuals. Up to four 3.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SATA hard drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 3 (hard-drive slots 4 through 7 do not support any hard drives and are installed with 2.5 inch hard-drive configuration...drives (PowerEdge R720xd) Twelve plus two-hard-drive systems Twenty-four plus two-hard-drive systems 16 GB single- NOTE: Four-hard-drive systems support software RAID. Up to four 2.5 inch Dell PowerEdge Express ...
Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products
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...320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products 5 About This Document...5 Compatible Hardware...5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns...6 Drive Activity Indicator...6 Drive Status Indicator...6 Controller BIOS Configuration Utility Behavior...7 OMSA Drive Information Page......11 Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool - Linux RAID Environments 11 Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool - Non-RAID Environments 11 Using the Smartmon Tool to Improve Drive Performance 14 ...
...320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products 5 About This Document...5 Compatible Hardware...5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers...5 SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns...6 Drive Activity Indicator...6 Drive Status Indicator...6 Controller BIOS Configuration Utility Behavior...7 OMSA Drive Information Page......11 Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool - Linux RAID Environments 11 Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool - Non-RAID Environments 11 Using the Smartmon Tool to Improve Drive Performance 14 ...
Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products
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... . Controller BIOS configuration utility OMSA Drive Information Page SMART Predictive Failure Notification Support SMART trips for insertion or removal during this page. 7 Drives are initialized after the system is normal behavior and does not indicate an issue with the drive. This is turned on the utility, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller User's Guide...
... . Controller BIOS configuration utility OMSA Drive Information Page SMART Predictive Failure Notification Support SMART trips for insertion or removal during this page. 7 Drives are initialized after the system is normal behavior and does not indicate an issue with the drive. This is turned on the utility, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller User's Guide...
Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products
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...-a -d sat+megaraid,N /dev/sdX - Find the OS name for the storage device. 2. X represents the storage device or RAID array identified in step 1. 3. Non-RAID Environments Note that the specific options in order to issue SMART commands to the drive. For example, a value of 85 means 85...1. 4. Find device ID's for these SMART drive attributes to register. Windows RAID Environments ONLY NOTE: In a Windows RAID environment, an individual SSD device cannot be directly accessed behind the LUN (Logical Unit or RAID configured set) so it must run the workload to be temporarily moved to a NON...
...-a -d sat+megaraid,N /dev/sdX - Find the OS name for the storage device. 2. X represents the storage device or RAID array identified in step 1. 3. Non-RAID Environments Note that the specific options in order to issue SMART commands to the drive. For example, a value of 85 means 85...1. 4. Find device ID's for these SMART drive attributes to register. Windows RAID Environments ONLY NOTE: In a Windows RAID environment, an individual SSD device cannot be directly accessed behind the LUN (Logical Unit or RAID configured set) so it must run the workload to be temporarily moved to a NON...
Dell High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions Using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn
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...2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups The Dell H710 mini-integrated PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) card can add two more details on the customer's specific application requirements. In our test configuration, we used for enhanced performance, increased reliability, and simplified management. Two RAID-10 (10 disks for...the two drives for storing T-Log files. The quorum model and NodeWeight settings of the configuration should be used fully populated PowerEdge R720xd servers in the primary and one RAID 1 virtual disk from 20 disks to shared storage solutions 9 The last two hard ...
...2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups The Dell H710 mini-integrated PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) card can add two more details on the customer's specific application requirements. In our test configuration, we used for enhanced performance, increased reliability, and simplified management. Two RAID-10 (10 disks for...the two drives for storing T-Log files. The quorum model and NodeWeight settings of the configuration should be used fully populated PowerEdge R720xd servers in the primary and one RAID 1 virtual disk from 20 disks to shared storage solutions 9 The last two hard ...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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... 6 Virtual Disk Settings 7 Internal Storage Controller Settings 8 RAID Configuration 8 Storage System Components 10 SQLIO Line Rate Test from Cache (Small File 12 SQLIO Real Rate Test from Disk (Large File 13 3 Table 4. Figure 5. Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Contents Introduction ...4 Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track...
... 6 Virtual Disk Settings 7 Internal Storage Controller Settings 8 RAID Configuration 8 Storage System Components 10 SQLIO Line Rate Test from Cache (Small File 12 SQLIO Real Rate Test from Disk (Large File 13 3 Table 4. Figure 5. Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Contents Introduction ...4 Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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...RAID controller that the default setting ("adaptive read ahead") gave the best performance. 7 Dell recommends testing various stripe sizes depending on the workload characteristics of up to 6GB/s throughput. Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd... Refer to compare and contrast any performance improvements. Configuration was tested with a segment size of 64KB ...
...RAID controller that the default setting ("adaptive read ahead") gave the best performance. 7 Dell recommends testing various stripe sizes depending on the workload characteristics of up to 6GB/s throughput. Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd... Refer to compare and contrast any performance improvements. Configuration was tested with a segment size of 64KB ...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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... RAID configuration. Figure 5. RAID Configuration [Rear Bay Drives] [OS] 8 Nine RAID 1 data disk groups and one RAID 10 log disk group were created each with a single Virtual Disk. We have configured the proposed Fast Track configuration using RAID 1 disk groups for database data files and RAID 10 for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Figure 4. Dell SMB Reference Configuration...
... RAID configuration. Figure 5. RAID Configuration [Rear Bay Drives] [OS] 8 Nine RAID 1 data disk groups and one RAID 10 log disk group were created each with a single Virtual Disk. We have configured the proposed Fast Track configuration using RAID 1 disk groups for database data files and RAID 10 for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Figure 4. Dell SMB Reference Configuration...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Drive Slot configuration: Slot 0-17: Nine RAID 1 disk groups were created, each configured with a single Virtual Disk dedicated for the primary user data. Slot 18-21: One RAID 10 disk group was created of four disks and a single Virtual Disk dedicated...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Drive Slot configuration: Slot 0-17: Nine RAID 1 disk groups were created, each configured with a single Virtual Disk dedicated for the primary user data. Slot 18-21: One RAID 10 disk group was created of four disks and a single Virtual Disk dedicated...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Figure 6 represents the storage system configuration for the operating system and database layers. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Settings ... group 8 Virtual disk group 9 Virtual disk group 10 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 10 The production, staging, and system temp databases were deployed per the recommendations provided in the Reference Section. 10 Application Configuration The sections below explain the settings applied for the proposed Fast...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Figure 6 represents the storage system configuration for the operating system and database layers. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Settings ... group 8 Virtual disk group 9 Virtual disk group 10 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 10 The production, staging, and system temp databases were deployed per the recommendations provided in the Reference Section. 10 Application Configuration The sections below explain the settings applied for the proposed Fast...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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... E5-2643 4 core CPU INTERNAL STORAGE PERC H700 Controller RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 10 Single RAID 1 Disk Group Synthetic I/O rate: 2669 MB/s The second synthetic I/O test with SQLIO was performed with sequential reads. 12 Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd SQLIO. Figure 8 shows the maximum real rate that the...
... E5-2643 4 core CPU INTERNAL STORAGE PERC H700 Controller RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 10 Single RAID 1 Disk Group Synthetic I/O rate: 2669 MB/s The second synthetic I/O test with SQLIO was performed with sequential reads. 12 Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd SQLIO. Figure 8 shows the maximum real rate that the...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on
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Dell SMB Reference Configuration for performance comparison and design purposes. Calculating MCR MCR ...Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Intel E5-2643 4 core CPU INTERNAL STORAGE PERC H700 Controller RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 10 Single RAID 1 Disk Group Synthetic I/O rate: 379 MB/s Fast Track Database Validation The performance of total ...Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Figure 8. For the validated configuration with one Intel E5-2643 four core processors, the system aggregate MCR was 311 MB...
Dell SMB Reference Configuration for performance comparison and design purposes. Calculating MCR MCR ...Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Intel E5-2643 4 core CPU INTERNAL STORAGE PERC H700 Controller RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 1 RAID 10 Single RAID 1 Disk Group Synthetic I/O rate: 379 MB/s Fast Track Database Validation The performance of total ...Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Fast Track Data Warehouse on PowerEdge R720xd Figure 8. For the validated configuration with one Intel E5-2643 four core processors, the system aggregate MCR was 311 MB...
Improving NFS performance on HPC clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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... server and storage hardware configuration Server configuration NFS SERVER PowerEdge R720 PROCESSORS Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 @ 2.70 GHz MEMORY 128 GB. 16 * 8 GB 1600MT/s RDIMMs INTERNAL DISKS 5 * 300 GB 15 K SAS disks Two drives configured in RAID-0 for the operating system with Dell Fluid Cache for swap space INTERNAL RAID CONTROLLER PERC H710P mini (internal...
... server and storage hardware configuration Server configuration NFS SERVER PowerEdge R720 PROCESSORS Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 @ 2.70 GHz MEMORY 128 GB. 16 * 8 GB 1600MT/s RDIMMs INTERNAL DISKS 5 * 300 GB 15 K SAS disks Two drives configured in RAID-0 for the operating system with Dell Fluid Cache for swap space INTERNAL RAID CONTROLLER PERC H710P mini (internal...
Improving NFS performance on HPC clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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..., allocsize=1g, nobarrier, inode64, logbsize=262144, attr2. This can become. Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for the cluster. 2.4.2. This RAID configuration provides a good balance between capacity, reliability to tolerate multiple disk failures and performance.4 • The segment size used...practices. Storage • 3TB NL SAS disks are configured in the virtual disk. Refer to Table 1 and Table 3 for card-to optimize the file system as swap space for this solution. • The PowerEdge R720 is used as well. however, the larger ...
..., allocsize=1g, nobarrier, inode64, logbsize=262144, attr2. This can become. Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for the cluster. 2.4.2. This RAID configuration provides a good balance between capacity, reliability to tolerate multiple disk failures and performance.4 • The segment size used...practices. Storage • 3TB NL SAS disks are configured in the virtual disk. Refer to Table 1 and Table 3 for card-to optimize the file system as swap space for this solution. • The PowerEdge R720 is used as well. however, the larger ...
Glossary
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...communicate with VMware virtual environments to enable you can configure a network to the other channel. cache A fast storage area that supply the correct account name and password. automatic RAID configuration In the context of Dell EqualLogic PS Series groups, an internal process that... has snapshots. base volume (Dell EqualLogic Group Manager) A volume that configures the user-selected RAID policy on all drives. CHA See Compellent...
...communicate with VMware virtual environments to enable you can configure a network to the other channel. cache A fast storage area that supply the correct account name and password. automatic RAID configuration In the context of Dell EqualLogic PS Series groups, an internal process that... has snapshots. base volume (Dell EqualLogic Group Manager) A volume that configures the user-selected RAID policy on all drives. CHA See Compellent...
Glossary
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...it also automates disk, BIOS, and RAID configuration, software distribution, and configuration management. Thin clones provide an efficient use thin provisioning report their overall storage expenditures, increase availability and achieve greater performance. In Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays, delegated space ... potential maximum size to remove a member from the primary group. A Dell KACE appliance-based deployment management solution for IT professionals that provides tools for configurations with multiple volumes that shares space with a template volume. Volume that have...
...it also automates disk, BIOS, and RAID configuration, software distribution, and configuration management. Thin clones provide an efficient use thin provisioning report their overall storage expenditures, increase availability and achieve greater performance. In Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays, delegated space ... potential maximum size to remove a member from the primary group. A Dell KACE appliance-based deployment management solution for IT professionals that provides tools for configurations with multiple volumes that shares space with a template volume. Volume that have...