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
Table 10. View Controller Information
Menu Item Description
Virtual Disk Count Displays the total number of virtual disks available
UEFI Driver Version Displays the UEFI driver version installed on the system
Firmware Build Time Displays the time and date the firmware was last updated.
Changing the boot order of the virtual disks
Set Bootable Device allows you to change the boot order of the virtual disks.
1. Enter the Dell PERC S150 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S150 Configuration Utility.
2. Click Controller Management > Change Controller Properties.
3. Click Set Bootable Device.
A Change Order dialog box displays the list of virtual disks available.
4. Use the arrow keys to set a virtual disk and + or – to change the order of the virtual disks that need to be booted first.
5. Click Ok.
The changes to the boot order of the virtual disks are displayed.
Stopping the system from booting if there is a critical BIOS error
The Change Controller Properties screen allows you to either enable or disable the option to stop the system from booting if
there is any critical BIOS error requiring manual intervention.
1. Enter the Dell PERC S150 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S150 configuration utility.
2. Click Controller Management > Change Controller Properties.
3. You can either enable or disable the Enable BIOS Stop On Error.
Converting a physical disk to a Non-RAID disk
1. Enter the Dell PERC S150 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S150 Configuration Utility
2. Click Controller Management > Convert to Non-RAID Disk.
3. Select the interface type.
4. Select the physical disks. Click Check All to select all the disks available.
5. Click Apply Changes.
Converting physical disk to RAID capable disk
CAUTION:
Any data already existing on the disk will be lost during this operation. Ensure that you have backed
up critical data before converting the physical disk to a RAID capable disk.
1. Enter the Dell PERC S150 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S150 Configuration Utility.
2. Click Controller Management > Convert to RAID Capable Disk.
3. Select the RAID type.
NOTE:
RAID type will not be available if a RAID is already configured. To enable RAID type, convert the disk to a non
RAID disk (see Converting a physical disk to a Non-RAID disk) and then convert them back to RAID capable disk.
4. Select disk interface type.
5. Select the physical disk to convert to a RAID capable disk. If you wish to select all the available disks, select Check All.
6. Click Apply Changes to submit the changes selected.
UEFI RAID configuration utility
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