Dell PowerEdge R660 PowerEdge RAID Controller S160 Users Guide - Page 44
Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for Linux
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● 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 Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for Linux Description: Solution When a virtual disk is created using physical disks that were earlier used for creating Linux virtual disk, some Linux partitions are present during operating system installation. When you create or delete a virtual disk, only the superblock metadata is modified. The partition table of the virtual disk that is stored at logical LBA-0 is not modified. Hence, when you re-create a virtual disk, the previous partitions are still listed. ● During operating system installation, these partitions can be deleted using the operating system installer. ● To not list the partitions, if supported you can perform cryptographic erase of the physical disk and then create a virtual disk from the HII. NOTE: Performing cryptographic erase deletes all the data on the physical disks. NOTE: In the Non RAID mode, if the NVMe disks (that were earlier used to create VDs) are reused without deleting the metadata, the Linux Installer still detects the VDs. Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or iDRAC Description: Solution After the rebuild of a virtual disk is completed using the global hot spare the status of the disk is not listed as online, instead the status of the disk is listed as ready. This is an expected behavior. No action is required. S160 displays 22 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks Description: Corrective action: The maximum number of virtual disks that are supported in OPROM is 24. ● If the physical disks are connected, only 22 virtual disks are displayed. ● If an optical drive is connected, and a DVD disk is inserted into the optical drive, then 23 virtual disks are displayed. ● If two optical drives with DVD disks inserted into the optical drives are connected, then 24 virtual disks are displayed. This is an expected behavior and no action is required. S160 displays 43 virtual disks on POST instead of 30 virtual disks Description: Corrective action: The maximum number of virtual disks that are supported in UEFI is 30. ● You cannot create more than 30 virtual disks. ● During virtual disk management and re-scan operations, you can see only 30 virtual disks. This is an expected behavior. ● If a drive or drives with virtual disks are imported from another system, then 43 virtual disks are displayed. This is an expected behavior and no action is required. 44 Troubleshooting your system