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 2. SATA specifications for PERC S150
Specification PERC S150
Communication with the system Integrated
Software-based RAID for SATA drives
Windows RAID: Volume, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10
Linux RAID: RAID 1
NOTE: After the operating system is installed on a RAID 1 disk, you can create non-boot virtual disks of any RAID level
supported by the installed Linux operating system using native Linux RAID utilities.
Pass-through SSD support Yes
NOTE: SATA BAY ID always displays as 1 in S150 UEFI HII.
Table 3. NVMe specifications for PERC S150
Specification PERC S150
NOTE: On systems running Windows, if there is no NSID=1 present on the NVMe drive, the drive is not accessible and is
marked offline. Firmware upgrades run on the NVMe drive are successful, however.
NVMe connectors PCIe/slimline
NOTE: Only Dell-compliant NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF), or NVMe PCIe SSD adapter cards are
supported.
Dell-compliant NVMe compatibility Yes
Communication with end devices PCIe
Software-based RAID for NVMe PCIe SSDs
Windows RAID: Volume, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
Linux RAID: RAID 1
NOTE: After the operating system is installed on a RAID 1 disk, you can create non-boot virtual disks of any RAID level
supported by the installed Linux operating system using native Linux RAID utilities.
Pass-through NVMe PCIe SSD support Yes
NOTE: Installation of OS on Volume VD through LC UI is not supported.
The following table provides PERC S150 virtual disk specifications:
Table 4. Virtual disk specifications for PERC S150 with SATA configuration
Specification PERC S150
Maximum number of physical disks supported 8
Maximum number of virtual disks supported 30
NOTE: The maximum number of virtual disks may exceed 30 when physical disks are migrated from any other
configuration or a disk in Ready state is converted to a non-RAID disk.
Maximum number of virtual disks supported from a single
disk group
8
NOTE: PERC S150 does not restrict the creation of 8 virtual disks per disk group. It allows you to create upto 30 virtual
disks.
Minimum virtual disk size 102 MB
Maximum number of physical disks per virtual disk 8
Maximum number of virtual disks per physical disk 8
Maximum number of physical disks in a volume 1
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