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
Chapter 1: Overview...................................................................................................................... 6
PERC S150 specifications................................................................................................................................................. 6
Supported operating systems...........................................................................................................................................8
Supported PowerEdge systems.......................................................................................................................................9
Supported physical disks................................................................................................................................................... 9
Management applications for the PERC S150............................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 2: Physical Disks............................................................................................................. 11
Physical disk features........................................................................................................................................................ 11
Physical disk roaming................................................................................................................................................... 11
Physical disk hot-swapping........................................................................................................................................ 11
Physical disk power management............................................................................................................................. 11
Physical disk failure detection....................................................................................................................................11
Mirror rebuilding........................................................................................................................................................... 12
Fault tolerance.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology.......................................................................................................... 12
Native Command Queuing......................................................................................................................................... 12
NVMe PCIe SSD support........................................................................................................................................... 12
Physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives................................................................................................. 13
Linux RAID......................................................................................................................................................................13
Chapter 3: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................... 14
Virtual disk features...........................................................................................................................................................14
TRIM for SATA SSDs.................................................................................................................................................. 14
Disk initialization................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Background Array Scan.................................................................................................................................................... 15
Checkpointing..................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Consistency check....................................................................................................................................................... 15
Background initialization.............................................................................................................................................15
Automatic virtual disk rebuild.................................................................................................................................... 15
Virtual disk cache policies................................................................................................................................................ 16
Virtual disk migration.........................................................................................................................................................16
Migrating a virtual disk................................................................................................................................................16
Expanding virtual disk capacity.......................................................................................................................................17
Chapter 4: Cabling the drives for the S150...................................................................................18
Disk connectivity for AHCI devices.............................................................................................................................. 20
Chapter 5: BIOS Configuration Utility.......................................................................................... 21
Entering the BIOS configuration utility.........................................................................................................................21
Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility..........................................................................................................................22
Initializing the physical disks........................................................................................................................................... 22
Converting to RAID disks...........................................................................................................................................22
Converting to Non-RAID disks................................................................................................................................. 22
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