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Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) 9
User’s Guide
Regulatory Model: UCPA-901, UCPB-900, UCSA-901,
UCSB-900, UCSE-900, and UCPE-900
Contents
Main
Notes, cautions, and warnings
Contents
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8 Security key and RAID management.............................................................. 93
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Overview
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Supported operating systems
PERC card specifications
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Management applications for PERC cards
Comprehensive embedded management
Dell OpenManage Storage Management
Related documentation
Getting started with your PERC card
Installing the operating system and the PERC card on a base system
Installing the PERC card on a system with the operating system pre-installed
Installing the operating system on a system with the PERC card pre-installed
Setting up the system with the PERC card and the operating system pre-installed
Configuring settings of a replaced PERC card on a system with operating system pre-installed
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Features
PERC 9 personality management
T10 protection information
Enabling T10 PI
Disabling T10 PI
Secure firmware update
Improved RAID 10 configuration
4KB block size disk drives
Physical disk power management
Configured spin down delay
Types of virtual disk initialization
Full initialization
Fast initialization
Background initialization
Consistency checks
Disk roaming
Using disk roaming
FastPath
Configuring FastPath-capable virtual disks
Virtual disk migration
Migrating virtual disks
Virtual disk write cache policies
Conditions under which write-back is employed
Conditions under which forced write-back with no battery is employed
Virtual disk read cache policies
Reconfiguration of virtual disks
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Fault tolerance
The SMART Feature
Automatic replace member with predicted failure
Patrol Read
Physical disk failure detection
Using persistent hot spare slots
Physical disk hot swapping
Using replace member and revertible hot spares
Controller cache preservation
Cache Preservation With NVC
Recovering cache data
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle
TLC time frame
Conditions for replacing the battery
Non-RAID disks support
Creating a non-raid disk
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Deploying the PERC card
Removing the PERC 9 adapter
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Installing the PERC 9 adapter
Removing the PERC 9 mini monolithic controller
Replacing the battery of a H730P mini monolithic card
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Installing the PERC 9 mini monolithic controller
Removing a H730P slim card
Replacing the battery of a H730P slim card
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Installing a H730P slim card
Removing the PERC 9 mini blade controller
Replacing the tethered battery of a PERC 9 mini blade card
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Installing the PERC 9 mini blade controller
Removing the PERC FD33xD Card
Replacing the battery of a PERC FD33xD card
Installing the PERC FD33xD card
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Driver installation
Creating the device driver media
Downloading drivers from the Dell support website
Downloading drivers from the Dell systems service and diagnostic tools media
Windows driver installation
Installing the driver during a Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer installation
Installing the driver after Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer installation
Updating PERC 9 driver for existing Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer
Linux driver installation
Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMOD support
Installing or updating the RPM driver package with KMP support
BIOS Configuration Utility
Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility
Exiting the Configuration Utility
Menu navigation controls
Setting up virtual disks
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BIOS Configuration Utility menu options
Virtual disk management
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Virtual disk actions
Physical disk management (PD Mgmt)
Physical disk actions
Rebuild
Controller management (Ctrl Mgmt)
Controller management actions
Foreign configuration view
Virtual Disk Management
Creating virtual disks
Selecting virtual disk parameters
Initializing virtual disks
Checking data consistency
Running a data consistency check
Importing or clearing foreign configurations using the VD mgmt menu
Importing or clearing foreign configurations using the foreign configuration view screen
Break mirror
Break mirror in BIOS configuration utility
Managing preserved cache
Managing dedicated hot spares
Deleting virtual disks
Deleting disk groups
Clearing the configuration
Physical Disk Management
Setting LED blinking
Creating global hot spares
Removing global or dedicated hot spares
Replacing an online physical disk
Restrictions and limitations
Stopping background initialization
Performing a manual rebuild of an individual physical disk
Controller Management
Enabling boot support
Enabling boot support for a BIOS-enabled controller
Enabling BIOS stop on error
Disabling BIOS stop on error
Enabling auto import
Disabling auto import
Restoring factory default settings
UEFI/HII RAID configuration utility
Entering the UEFI configuration utility
Exiting the UEFI configuration utility
Navigating to Dell PERC 9 configuration utility
Configuration management
Creating virtual disks
Creating profile based virtual disks
Converting physical disks to RAID capable disk
Converting physical disks to non-RAID disk
Viewing disk group properties
Managing foreign configurations on a RAID controller
Controller management
Restoring factory settings for the controller
Saving controller events
Enabling security for the controller
Saving debug log
Switching the controller to HBA mode
Prerequisites for RAID to HBA mode transition
Switching the controller to RAID mode
Virtual disk management
Viewing virtual disk properties
Viewing physical disks associated with a virtual disk
Physical disk management
Viewing physical disk properties
Hardware components management
Viewing battery properties
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Security key and RAID management
Security key implementation
Security key management in the BIOS configuration utility
Local Key Management (LKM)
Creating a security key
Changing the security key
Deleting a security key
Creating secured virtual disks
Securing pre-existing virtual disks
Importing or clearing secured foreign configurations and secure disk migration
Instant secure erase
Troubleshooting
BIOS configuration utility error messages
Discovery error message
Extra enclosure error message
Missing disks in virtual disk error message
Previous configuration of disks removed error message
Missing virtual disks error message
Dirty cache data error message
BIOS disabled error message
Drive Configuration Changes Error Message
Adapter at baseport not responding error message
Offline or missing virtual drives with preserved cache error message
Virtual disks offline error message
Virtual disks degraded error message
Virtual disks partially degraded error message
Memory or battery problem error message
Firmware fault state error message
Foreign configuration found error message
Foreign configuration not found in <ctrl> <R> error message
Previous configuration cleared or missing error message
Degraded state of virtual disks
Memory errors
Preserved Cache State
Security key errors
Secured foreign import errors
Failure to select or configure non Self-Encrypting Disks (non-SED)
General Issues
PERC card has yellow bang in device manager
PERC card not seen in device manager
Physical disk issues
Physical disk in failed state
Unable to rebuild a fault tolerant virtual disk
Fatal error or data corruption reported
Physical disk displayed as blocked
Multiple disks become inaccessible
Rebuilding a failed physical disk
Virtual disk fails during rebuild using a global hot spare
Virtual disk fails during rebuild using a dedicated hot spare
Physical disk fails during reconstruction on redundant virtual disk
Virtual disk fails rebuild using a dedicated hot spare
SMART errors
Smart error detected on a physical disk in a redundant virtual disk
Smart error detected on a physical disk in a non-redundant virtual disk
Replace member errors
Source disk fails during replace member operation
Linux operating system errors
Virtual disk policy is assumed as write-through error message
Unable to register SCSI device error message
Disk Carrier LED Indicators
UEFI error messages
Unhealthy Status of the Drivers
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Appendix: RAID description
Summary of RAID levels
RAID terminology
Disk striping
Disk mirroring
Spanned RAID levels
Parity data
Getting help
Contacting Dell
Documentation feedback
Locating your system Service Tag