Decided to post how I'm getting on with this venerably old Server
Server in question, I've had this for while and it replaced a HPE P4500 G2 where the NICs had died and giving me other issues too
Just now setting up the R510 to backup all our Media to as currently on a single 12TB drive
Basics
Dell Poweredge R510-12 (12x 3.5" bays)
2x 1100w Power Supplies
2x Intel Xeon L5640 CPUs
64GB DDR3 RAM (8x 8GB)
1x Dell Perc H200 flashed to IT P20
12x 3TB SAS Drives
2x 600GB 10k RPM drives
2x Sun/Oracle F80 800GB PCIe SSD's in Raid 0
1x Intel 82598 based 10Gbe NIC (oldy but goodie)
IDRAC 6 Enterprise (frustratingly sssllloooowwww)
Server 2k12 r2, I'll probably update this as having some issues with Degraded Volumes (there is a MS KB fix yet to try)
Server 2019 installed, and degraded volume went away
PCIe slots
Slot one (top right) - 8x slot - 4x Electrical
Slot two (middle right) - 8x Slot - 4x Electrical
Slot three (bottom right) -8x Slot - 8x Electrical
Slot four (top left) - 8x Slot - 4x Electrical - Internal Storage slot
1x Dual USB slot on Expander board + 1 on front panel + 2 on back
SD Card on iDrac6 board for booting from but limited to 2GB partitions (card can be bigger)
2x 1GB Broadcom built in NICs
VGA on front and back (rare on 12bay units)
Here is the above crammed into case, all drive bays full, all RAM slots full, all PCIe slots full, CPUs both in there
Already heaps of drama to get to this point, so post will be updated as things come to mind.
First thing in OS and boot drive planning with the R510 and a PCIe SSD, UEFI boot doesn't work
UEFI boot via HBA's and probably RAID cards are fine
But for some reason the F80 flashed to IR mode UEFI no booty, probably an EFI BIOS on the F80 issue
Took me a while to work this out so hopefully it will help some one out
But now installing Server 2019 in MBR mode which works fine
The F80's did give me a scare, I picked them up dirt cheap ($50ea)
Came with 100% life remaining, can't ask for any better
I originally wanted one in IR mode (1x 800GB) and other in IT mode (4x 200GB)
But while working on above UEFI issue, both card become broken in error state
After much hair pulling and using all my bag of tricks and other too, got them both back and in IR mode
I'll update my bag of trick files to bring back the cards from the dead
Had some issues a while back with a HP H220i HBA flashed to IT mode years ago
I assume it died just as I was looking at starting this project, and tried to take the rest of the server with it
I had to dig deep once again and force the server to boot (PSU Green wire short to ground) as it wouldn't start, fans came on for a split second
Once forced on, server booted up, did complain about a system error that was very vague but no other issues arose
BTW, the R510 with 12x disks has no room for a LCD display to show errors, just a few LED's and a code for their meaning on the left rack ear
After a few reboots the server error went away and its worked like a charm ever since
Had already ordered a Dell H200 which since flashed to IT mode but with A BIOS as I didn't have the F80's yet, will need to reflash with no BIOS
So at the moment running server 2019, which sorted the degraded Volume issue and I was able to make that large volume Thin provisioning as well
No doubt more bits will follow
Server in question, I've had this for while and it replaced a HPE P4500 G2 where the NICs had died and giving me other issues too
Just now setting up the R510 to backup all our Media to as currently on a single 12TB drive
Basics
Dell Poweredge R510-12 (12x 3.5" bays)
2x 1100w Power Supplies
2x Intel Xeon L5640 CPUs
64GB DDR3 RAM (8x 8GB)
1x Dell Perc H200 flashed to IT P20
12x 3TB SAS Drives
2x 600GB 10k RPM drives
2x Sun/Oracle F80 800GB PCIe SSD's in Raid 0
IDRAC 6 Enterprise (frustratingly sssllloooowwww)
Server 2019 installed, and degraded volume went away
PCIe slots
Slot one (top right) - 8x slot - 4x Electrical
Slot two (middle right) - 8x Slot - 4x Electrical
Slot three (bottom right) -8x Slot - 8x Electrical
Slot four (top left) - 8x Slot - 4x Electrical - Internal Storage slot
1x Dual USB slot on Expander board + 1 on front panel + 2 on back
SD Card on iDrac6 board for booting from but limited to 2GB partitions (card can be bigger)
2x 1GB Broadcom built in NICs
VGA on front and back (rare on 12bay units)
Here is the above crammed into case, all drive bays full, all RAM slots full, all PCIe slots full, CPUs both in there
Already heaps of drama to get to this point, so post will be updated as things come to mind.
First thing in OS and boot drive planning with the R510 and a PCIe SSD, UEFI boot doesn't work
UEFI boot via HBA's and probably RAID cards are fine
But for some reason the F80 flashed to IR mode UEFI no booty, probably an EFI BIOS on the F80 issue
Took me a while to work this out so hopefully it will help some one out
But now installing Server 2019 in MBR mode which works fine
The F80's did give me a scare, I picked them up dirt cheap ($50ea)
Came with 100% life remaining, can't ask for any better
I originally wanted one in IR mode (1x 800GB) and other in IT mode (4x 200GB)
But while working on above UEFI issue, both card become broken in error state
After much hair pulling and using all my bag of tricks and other too, got them both back and in IR mode
I'll update my bag of trick files to bring back the cards from the dead
Had some issues a while back with a HP H220i HBA flashed to IT mode years ago
I assume it died just as I was looking at starting this project, and tried to take the rest of the server with it
I had to dig deep once again and force the server to boot (PSU Green wire short to ground) as it wouldn't start, fans came on for a split second
Once forced on, server booted up, did complain about a system error that was very vague but no other issues arose
BTW, the R510 with 12x disks has no room for a LCD display to show errors, just a few LED's and a code for their meaning on the left rack ear
After a few reboots the server error went away and its worked like a charm ever since
Had already ordered a Dell H200 which since flashed to IT mode but with A BIOS as I didn't have the F80's yet, will need to reflash with no BIOS
So at the moment running server 2019, which sorted the degraded Volume issue and I was able to make that large volume Thin provisioning as well
No doubt more bits will follow
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