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
Rescan disks
This option allows you to view the list of existing Physical and Virtual disks.
NOTE: The Rescan disks option may take from 10 to 20 seconds to display the list of disks, depending on the number of
disks available in the system.
1. Enter the Dell PERC S150 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S150 Configuration Utility.
2. Click Controller Management > Rescan Disks.
The Rescan Disks screen is displayed. It provides information about the latest physical disk and virtual disk configurations.
Virtual disk management
This section allows you to create, manage and delete virtual disks. You can also view and modify some properties of the
associated physical disk.
Configuring Windows RAID
NOTE: To enable RAID mode for NVMe PCIe SSDs, see Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode .
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 typeWindows RAID.
4. Select the Interface Type.
The options are SATA and NVMe.
5. Select the physical disk and click Apply Changes.
A confirmation screen is displayed.
6. Click Yes to continue.
7. Click Back to return to the configuration options screen.
8. After converting the physical disks, click the Virtual Disk Management in the Configuration Options screen.
9. Click Create Virtual Disks.
10. Click Select the Physical Disk.
11. Select the interface type, media type, sector size, and the physical disks.
12. Click Apply Changes.
13. Enter the virtual disk size and select the Virtual Disk Size Unit.
NOTE:
It is recommended to select the unit before specifying the disk size value. Changing the unit after entering the
value may change the disk size.
14. Select the Read Cache Policy.
15. Select the Write Cache Policy.
16. Select the Physical Disk Write Cache.
17. Click Create Virtual Disk.
The virtual disk is ready.
Configuring Linux RAID
NOTE:
The Linux RAID feature is supported on all the Sirius systems. To enable RAID mode for NVMe PCIe SSDs, see
Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode . For more information on installing SLES 15 see SUSE Support.
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 as Linux RAID.
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UEFI RAID configuration utility