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
Viewing the physical disks details
1. Enter the BIOS Configuration Utility. See Entering the BIOS configuration utility.
2. In the Main Menu screen, select View Physical Disk Details and press <Enter>.
3. Use the arrow keys to choose a physical disk.
4. The following details of the physical disks are displayed:
a. Physical disk number
b. Channel number
c. Physical disk size
d. Physical disk status: Non-RAID/Ready/Online
e. Amount of free space
f. Manufacturer and model number
g. World Wide Address
h. SATA Cache Policy (Enabled or Disabled)
i. S.M.A.R.T. State: Error (if a disk with a S.M.A.R.T. error is discovered)
5. Press <Esc> to return to the main window.
Viewing the virtual disks details
1. Enter the BIOS Configuration Utility. See Entering the BIOS configuration utility.
2. In the Main Menu screen, select View Virtual Disk Details and press <Enter>.
3. Use the arrow keys to choose a virtual disk.
4. The following details of the virtual disks are displayed:
a. Virtual disk number
b. RAID Level
c. Size
d. Status (Read Ahead/Write Back, No Read Ahead/Write Back, Read Ahead/Write Through, No Read Ahead/
Write Through)
5. Press <Esc> to return to the main window.
NOTE: The Physical Disks field indicates the physical disks that are in the virtual disk, highlighted by green text.
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.
Controller Options
The Controller Options feature helps you to enable the BIOS Stop on Error option. The boot process pauses when Pause
if... is enabled and a virtual disk becomes Degraded or has Failed. Press <Enter> to continue booting.
View the error message on the window. If Pause... is OFF, the error message is displayed briefly, but the system continues to
boot.
1. Enter the BIOS Configuration Utility. See Entering the BIOS Configuration Utility.
2. In the Main Menu screen, use the arrows to select the Controller Options.
3. In the Controller Options field, use the up or down arrow keys to scroll to the desired controller option.
BIOS Configuration Utility
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