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
○ Windows Server 2019
○ Windows Server 2016
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NOTE: See Linux RAID for capabilities when using the following operating systems:
Linux
○ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and above
○ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 15 SP1 and above
NOTE: The S150 supports Linux only for pre-booting the configuration utility capability for enabling the Linux
MDRAID. For more information, see Linux RAID.
NOTE: For the latest list of supported operating systems and driver installation instructions, see the system documentation
at https://www.dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals. For specific operating system service pack requirements, see the
Drivers and Downloads section at www.dell.com/support/drivers.
Supported PowerEdge systems
The following PowerEdge systems support the S150 controller:
● PowerEdge R6515
● PowerEdge R7515
● PowerEdge R6525
● PowerEdge R7525
● PowerEdge C6525
● PowerEdge R650 XP
● PowerEdge R650 XS
● PowerEdge R750 XP
● PowerEdge R750 XS
● PowerEdge R750 XA
● PowerEdge MX750C
● PowerEdge C6520
● PowerEdge R450
● PowerEdge R550
● PowerEdge T550
● XR11
● XR12
Supported physical disks
The PERC S150 controller supports the following physical disk types:
● SATA hard disk drives (HDDs)
● SATA solid state drives (SSDs), with the exception of the M.2 SATA form factor, which is not supported.
Mixing drives of different speeds (rpm) and bandwidths (Gbps) while maintaining the same drive type (SATA) and
technology (HDD or SSD) is supported.
● NVMe PCIe SSDs
Only Dell-compliant NVMe PCIe SSDs are supported. Some non-Dell-certified NVMe drives can be used, although they are
unsupported, including Micron device ID 0x5190 and 0x5192, Western digital device ID 0x0023, Samsung device ID 0XA808,
and Intel device IDs 0x0A54 and 0x2701. Mixing NVMe PCIe SSDs and SATA drives is not supported in a single RAID virtual
disk. For information on PowerEdge NVMe 2.5-inch SFF and PowerEdge NVMe PCIe SSD adapter, see the Express Flash
NVMe PCIe SSD user's guide at Dell.com/manuals.
Management applications for the PERC S150
Management applications enable you to manage and configure the RAID subsystem, create and manage multiple disk groups,
control and monitor multiple RAID systems, and provide online maintenance. Management applications for PERC S150 include:
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