PowerEdge530 Win2012 and Dell PowerVault MD1420 - RAID not available

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by krakadzil, Aug 4, 2016.

  1. krakadzil

    krakadzil MDL Novice

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    pls someone can help me - i'm have a PowerEdge530 Win2012 and Dell PowerVault MD1420 - but a can't setup RAID 10 on PowerVault - "TASK NOT AVAILABLE"

    raid_nie_dziala_na_macierzy.jpg

    in disk managment i'm see all my 24 disk slots (but i'm have only 12 disks)

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    pls help!
     
  2. herrkarl

    herrkarl MDL Junior Member

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    Try it in RAID Controller BIOS
     
  3. lotto

    lotto MDL Novice

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    #3 lotto, Aug 5, 2016
    Last edited: Aug 5, 2016
    You don't have RAID adapter attached with MD1420. The 12G SAS HBA is just external SAS interface to SAN. Consider to change it with H830 instead.

    Or if performance and reliability does not matter, use Windows software RAID.