How to Setup a RAID 1 Array on Intel ICH Chipsets Using Matrix Storage Manager. Patrick Kennedy - February 9, 2011. With Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials both having recent release candidates indicating an imminent release, I thought it would be wise to take a minute to show how to setup a RAID 1. I am using the paid Macrium 5 server edition on Windows SBS 2011 x64. It shows that 'Dell PERC S100 S300 Controller [storport] driver. PERC S300 Driver for Windows SBS 2011 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016. Remove the S300 and disable the onboard S100 and use Windows-managed RAID, OR get an H200. Tried to install Windows SBS 2011 and it asks me for the controller driver. Dell PERC S300 Adapter, PERC S300 Integrated Modular, PERC S100 Integrated, RMSD_PERC S100 Integrated, v.1.0.1.0021, A04 Windows 2008 R2 Server 64bit driver for S100/S300 Controllers RAID_DRVR_WIN_R245795.EXE.
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Hi there,We are running Small Business Server 2011 on a Dell Poweredge T310 server. The server has a Perc S100 RAID controller and the 2 drives are setup as a RAID1. Long story short, we lost the array completely. I have a backup of the system (nightly SBS backup to external USB disk).
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The drives were replaced, array was rebuilt, and then I booted off of the SBS2011 install DVD and chose the option to Repair and to restore from a backup image. The image is found successfully (yay!), but the SBS installer cannot see the hard drives and therefore cannot restore the image. I ran 'diskpart' and did 'list disk'. All I see is the external backup drive.
When I built the server, I had to use the Dell System Build Utility disk to choose the OS, configure the RAID, etc. It then rebooted and started an SBS installer of its own and then prompted for the DVD.
How can I get SBS to recognize the disk array so that I can restore to it? It sounds like I need to install a driver but if I boot using the SBS2011 install DVD, the system cannot see the DVD drive or the hard disk.
I also tried rebuilding the server and then was hoping I could run the backup utility to read the backup, but am not having any luck there. I get 'Access denied' when trying to read the disk.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. We are completely stuck in a very frustrating position.
Thanks,
Verton
I am about to purchase a new server as follows:
- Dell T610
- 2 x Xeon 2.53Ghz processors
- 16GB RAM
- Perc H700 w/ 1GB Non Volatile RAM
- 8 x 300GB 15K SAS Hard drives
- Small Business Server 2011
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This will be a domain controller, file server, print server, exchange, Sophos AV server etc.
- What configuration would you suggest for the drives? All in a big RAID 10 or split in some way?
- Should I upgrade the standard (Dual Gigabit ethernet) to Quad ethernet - will it make a difference to throughput?
- Is the 1GB memory on the RAID controller worth it, or should I stick with the 512MB?
Thanks for the help
Mark Henderson♦
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What configuration would you suggest for the drives? All in a big RAID 10 or split in some way?
RAID 10 is what I would do, but we don't know your users and can't answer this question.
Should I upgrade the standard (Dual Gigabit ethernet) to Quad ethernet - will it make a difference to throughput?
I don't know about SBS2011, but SBS2008 only officially supported one NIC, and makes life a bit difficult when you have more than one (like refusing to bind the DNS server to additional NICs, and the Best Practice Analyser always fails). I'd say stick with dual, I don't see many servers with a need for quad outside of virtualisation.
Is the 1GB memory on the RAID controller worth it, or should I stick with the 512MB?
Depends on how much disk activity you expect to see. 512Mb is a reasonable amount, but if you don't have a battery backup for the cache, it's irrelevant as you can't use it anyway. So spend the extra money on a BBU if you don't have one, otherwise there's no real way of us answering it without knowing your workload (same as KCotreau said in comment).
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