Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller S150 User’s Guide
- Overview
- Physical Disks
- Virtual Disks
- Cabling the drives for the S150
- BIOS Configuration Utility
- Entering the BIOS configuration utility
- Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility
- Initializing the physical disks
- Creating the virtual disks
- Deleting the virtual disks
- Swapping two virtual disks
- Managing the hot spare disks
- Viewing the physical disks details
- Viewing the virtual disks details
- Rescan disks
- Controller Options
- Continue to boot
- UEFI RAID configuration utility
- Installing the drivers
- Troubleshooting your system
- Precautions for hot removal or hot insertion of NVMe drives
- Unable to configure Linux RAID using UEFI Configuration Utility
- Performance degradation after disabling SATA physical disk write cache policy
- Unable to modify any feature settings in UEFI or OPROM
- Extra reboot during OS installation
- OS installation failing on NVMe PCIe SSD with third-party driver
- Server performance is slow and crashes during OS installation on the SATA configuration
- Server performance is slow during OS installation on the NVMe configuration
- System startup issues
- System does not boot
- Controller mode is set incorrectly at System Setup
- Boot mode, boot sequence, and or boot sequence retry are set incorrectly
- Bootable virtual disk is in a failed state
- The boot order is incorrect for a bootable virtual disk
- A Non-RAID virtual disk is no longer in first position in the BIOS configuration utility list after a system reboot
- The BIOS configuration utility option does not display
- Configuring RAID using the Option ROM Utility is disabled
- Warning Messages
- Other errors appearing on the BIOS screen
- BSOD is observed while booting on the NVMe configuration server
- S150 controller lists M.2 drives
- Error in displaying the CD/DVD-ROM while in legacy mode
- Unavailable error under UEFI boot settings
- S150 does not display greater than ten virtual disks in the BIOS Configuration Utility or CTRL R
- Unable to delete virtual disks when there are more than 30 virtual disks present in the system
- Virtual disk rebuild status in the BIOS Configuration Utility (
) or in UEFI HII
- Physical disk - related errors
- The physical disk fails
- Cannot initialize a physical disk
- Status LED is not working
- Cannot update NVMe PCIe SSD firmware by using Dell Update Package or DUP
- NVMe drive error when inserted for the first time
- Third-party driver installation for NVMe PCIe SSD failing
- Unable to find the NVMe PCIe SSD for operating system installation
- Virtual disks - related errors
- Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for Linux
- Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or iDRAC
- S150 displays 22 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks
- S150 displays 43 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks
- Display of failed virtual disk in HII
- Virtual disk size in decimals is not supported while creating a VD
- Cannot create a virtual disk
- A virtual disk is in a degraded state
- Cannot assign a dedicated hot spare to a virtual disk
- Cannot create a global hot spare
- A dedicated hot spare fails
- Failed or degraded virtual disk
- Cannot create a virtual disk on selected physical disks
- RAID disk created from the NVMe PCIe SSDs not appearing in operating system environment, showing as partitioned disks
- Cannot perform an Online Capacity Expansion or Reconfigure on a virtual disk
- Unable to configure RAID on NVMe PCIe SSD using a third party RAID configuration utility
- Getting help
BIOS Configuration Utility
The BIOS Configuration Utility, also known as Ctrl+R or Option ROM (OPROM), is a storage management application integrated
into the System BIOS accessible using F2 during system boot, which configures and maintains RAID disk groups and virtual disks
on SATA drives. The BIOS Configuration Utility (Ctrl+R) is independent of the operating system.
NOTE: Use the Ctrl+R for initial setup and disaster recovery. You can use advanced features through OpenManage
storage management applications.
NOTE: Configuring NVMe PCIe SSDs is not supported using the BIOS configuration utility.
NOTE: Ensure that you use only the S150 UEFI configuration utility to configure the NVMe PCIe SSDs during preboot. To
enable RAID mode for NVMe PCIe SSDs, see Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode .
NOTE: RAID configuration using OPROM is not supported on systems with the NVMe PCIe SSD.
The following sections provide information about using the Ctrl+R. For more information, see the online help option by pressing
F1 in the Ctrl+R.
The table below indicates the tasks that are supported or not supported by the PERC S150 at the Ctrl+R.
Table 8. BIOS Configuration Utility (Ctrl+R) Tasks
PERC S150 tasks Supported by S150
Enable alarm No
Disable alarm No
Quiet alarm No
Test alarm No
Set check consistency rate No
Rescan controller Yes
Create virtual disk Yes
Topics:
• Entering the BIOS configuration utility
• Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility
• Initializing the physical disks
• Creating the virtual disks
• Deleting the virtual disks
• Swapping two virtual disks
• Managing the hot spare disks
• Viewing the physical disks details
• Viewing the virtual disks details
• Rescan disks
• Controller Options
• Continue to boot
Entering the BIOS configuration utility
1. Turn on the system.
2. While the system starts up, press Ctrl+R to boot to the BIOS configuration utility.
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