Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller S150 User’s Guide
- Contents
- 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
5. In the Physical Disks menu, use the arrow keys to move between the physical disks and press Insert to select the desired
physical disk.
6. Press Enter.
The selected physical disk is converted to Non-RAID disks.
Creating the virtual disks
1. Enter the BIOS Configuration Utility. See Entering the BIOS configuration utility.
2. Select Create Virtual Disks from the Main Menu screen and press <Enter>.
NOTE: The S150 controller supports a maximum of 30 virtual disks. You cannot modify any feature settings in UEFI or
OPROM if the number of virtual disks exceeds the maximum limit of 30. For more information about troubleshooting this
issue, see Unable to modify any feature settings in UEFI or OPROM.
3. In the Physical Disks field, select the physical disk on which you want to create a virtual disk:
a. To select a physical disk, press Insert.
b. After selecting the physical disk to be included in the virtual disk, press Enter.
4. In the User Input field, use the arrow keys to select a virtual disk type (RAID level) and press Enter.
5. Select a size for the virtual disk, depending on the available free space of the physical disks and press Enter.
6. In the User Input field, select a Caching Mode. Press Enter.
7. Press C to confirm that you want to create the virtual disk.
Selecting virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk
To create a virtual disk size of < 2.199 TB:
1. Use the up arrow or page up keys to select a size displayed incrementally, or use the down arrow or page down keys to
select a size displayed decrementally.
NOTE:
To increase the size by 10 units use the page up key and to increase the size by one unit use the up arrow key
and conversely.
2. Continue with Creating the virtual disks.
To create a virtual disk size of > 2.199 TB:
1. Press the Page Up or the up arrow key to increase the virtual disk size. At the maximum size, a dialog box is displayed in the
User Input field. It inquires if you want to limit the size of the virtual disk or exceed the normal maximum size.
2. Press Esc to create a larger virtual disk.
3. Press the Page Up or the up arrow key until the desired or maximum available size has been attained.
4. Continue with Creating the virtual disks.
Deleting the virtual disks
1. Enter the BIOS Configuration Utility. See Entering the BIOS configuration utility.
2. In the Main Menu screen, select Deleting Virtual Disk using the arrow keys and press Enter.
3. Select each virtual disk in the Virtual Disks field that you want to delete. Press Insert to confirm each selection.
4. Press Enter.
CAUTION:
Deleting a virtual disk permanently destroys all data that is on the virtual disk, as well as the
virtual disk itself. This action cannot be undone.
5. Press C to confirm the deletion.
NOTE:
When a degraded or a failed virtual disk from one system is added to another system, and if the number of
virtual disks exceeds the maximum limit of 30, you cannot delete the virtual disks that are in the Normal or Ready
states.
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