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
Bootable virtual disk is in a failed state
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
2. After the system restart, press Ctrl+R. Check the status of the bootable virtual disk at the Virtual Disk field, or by
highlighting View Virtual Disks Details and pressing Enter.
3. Check for missing or offline physical disks.
The boot order is incorrect for a bootable virtual disk
1. When prompted at system startup, press Ctrl+R to access the system BIOS configuration utility.
2. Check Virtual Disks and ensure that the bootable virtual disk is the first virtual disk listed.
3. If required, use the Swap Two Virtual Disks option to reposition the virtual disks.
A Non-RAID virtual disk is no longer in first position in the BIOS
configuration utility list after a system reboot
NOTE: When booting from a Non-RAID virtual disk, creating a virtual disk in OpenManage Server Administrator changes the
virtual disk order and displaces the bootable Non-RAID virtual disk from the first position. PERC S150 then attempts to boot
from the first virtual disk.
NOTE: A Non-RAID virtual disk can be created from Non-RAID physical disks—which are physical disks initialized by a
controller other than PERC S150.
1. When prompted at system startup, press Ctrl+R to access the BIOS configuration utility.
2. Check Virtual Disks and determine if the bootable Non-RAID virtual disk is no longer in the first position.
3. Use the Swap Two Virtual Disks option to swap the virtual disks and place the bootable Non-RAID virtual disk in the first
position of the Virtual Disks field.
The BIOS configuration utility option does not display
The BIOS configuration utility Ctrl+R option does not display if the PERC S150 mode is set incorrectly in the system BIOS.
For the correct SATA Setting, see Controller mode is set incorrectly at System Setup .
Configuring RAID using the Option ROM Utility is
disabled
Use the PERC S150 Configuration Utility to configure RAID on systems with NVMe PCIe SSD(s).
Warning Messages
The Dell Inc. PERC S150 Controller system BIOS screen is one of the first screens to appear during your system’s boot
sequence. If the system’s virtual disks were in Normal or Ready status before a system boot, the boot sequence continues
normally to the Microsoft Windows Server operating system. But, if a virtual disk is in Degraded or Failed status, or if
specific options in the Controller Options field were changed previously at the BIOS Configuration Utility (<Ctrl><R>), the
following warning messages appear during the boot sequence.
Troubleshooting your system
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