Dell PowerEdge R710 build PART 6/9 | 4 ways to install boot drive

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In this video, I'm going to show you 4 ways to install an OS boot drive. There was actually a 5th option I was going to demonstrate, but unfortunately I could never get that to work, so I won't count that as an option here. The 5th option was going to be using a Dell vFlash SD card in the iDRAC 6 vflash slot. Unfortunately, every time I tried this, it would kill the vFlash SD card.
The 4-way boot drive options are:
1:01 - the LSI storage controller
2:05 - the internal USB
3:00 - the internal SD Card Reader
5:20 - using SATA SSD in optical bay
10:44 - the 5th option that didn't work; iDRAC6 vFlash
14:35 - looking at all boot options in the BIOS setup
18:46 - Booting off SATA SSD
21:44 - Booting off the internal USB
25:17 - Booting off internal SD Card Reader
If you'd like to get the H200 in this video that is pre-flashed to LSI IT mode HBA firmware, and set correctly to work in the integrated storage slot of Dell 11th generation servers, get it here: ebay.to/2N6PCZT
eBay searches for components shown in this video (not at my eBay store):
- Dell R710 6-bay server: ebay.to/38unmb9
- Dell iDRAC 6 express / enterprise modules: ebay.to/3clUumB
- Dell internal SD Card Reader (P/N RN354 & KY386): ebay.to/3bHpsGx
- Dell optical SATA/power cable (P/N GP703): ebay.to/3ezKnNx
- Optical/DVD bay 2.5" SSD adapter: ebay.to/38BhTiL
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@rothe31 3 года назад

Another GREAT option is a PCIe card with mSATA (mine has dual mSATA) and my OS drive is cloned on both mSATA drives. FreeNAS loves it. I Have 3 r710 systems with this setup.

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

Indeed! That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing!

@nalongbottom81 3 года назад

Great videos. Looking forward to receiving my first R710 soon for Homelab setup, and these videos will be really useful. Cheers!

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

Have fun!

@KilrInstkX 3 года назад

These videos are life savers. Ty.

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

Thank you! I'm glad they've been helpful! :-)

@benjaminc.m.9873 6 месяцев назад

Another option is to use a PCI Express M.2 card that supports a SATA connection. You can then use a SATA based M.2 drive, and use SATA port on the motherboard for connection.

@ArtofServer 6 месяцев назад

Good idea! Thanks for sharing!

@BrooksyTech 4 года назад

Always great videos. Thanks for the info.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Thanks for watching! :-)

@dudeinmo 4 года назад

Wish this was around when I got my first R710 ... i did alot of reading into it, then ordered the DVD drive tray and it was a simple plug and play. I did have to change one out though . I originally got the 9mm tray ( if I remember correct), swapped it out for the 12mm version and attached the blue latch and worked flawlessly. 125Gb SSD for proxmox then had all my bays open for zfs. Alway watching your videos. Hoping to get a R720xd and Powervault around Christmas, so I'll have to see if you have a Raid controller and external sas controller on your ebay store then.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Oh yeah!! I should have mentioned that.. yes, the optical bay in the R710 is of the 12.7mm variety. They are slimmer ones, so yeah.. now I wished i had mentioned that! thanks for bringing it up!

@christopherdecarlucci2985 4 года назад

I have been getting stuck booting from usb instead of using a harddrive bay. This will help out alot thanks so much!

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

cool!

@SeanLynchXY 4 года назад

17:15 Quick Tip: If you're debugging PCIe cards/slots or various BIOS parameters on a fast system where catching the F2 boot prompt is a gamble you can enable an empty SATA port and after Post completes you have the choice to see if your OS is happy with your changes or going back to BIOS to continue your tweaking.

@realLuisGiordano 2 года назад

Your Service Tag helped me find the drivers I need for this server lol

@woxit6107 2 года назад

Thanks for the time and effort.

@ArtofServer 2 года назад

At this rate, you're going to run out of content to watch on my channel LOL

@woxit6107 2 года назад

@@ArtofServer :-) Thanks for it!

@gabrielporto.mikrotik Год назад

Great video. I actually use a caddy with a 128GB SSD to boot proxmox on my Dell Poweredge R210II. It’s been up and running 24/7 for almost 2 years now.

@ArtofServer Год назад

Yeah, those are great too. Don't forget the internal USB port and SD card options too! :-)

@maans2001 3 года назад

as mentioned in 9:20 My R710 Came with a filler for the optical drive and would fit an ssd just fine and it has the "blue retainer/latch" and it fits quite well The part number for the filler is (0WP705) Hope that helps some of you (:

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

thanks for sharing that info!

@CrazyLegsFE 4 года назад

The velcro and USB to SSD adapter works great in that center spot if you have an optical drive installed

@Scruffy325 3 года назад

You could also use a USB to SATA power only cable, and run another SATA data cable to the onboard port. That way you can have both the SSD and optical drive running over SATA!

@TrollingAround 4 года назад

I replaced the DVD with a caddy, with an SSD installed, plus I installed a second SSD in the 'space' next to it, and spliced a power cable from the original DVD power cable - works fine. Its SSD runs down under the CPU heatsinks to the second SATA connector on the motherboard.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

that's awesome.

@UnkyjoesPlayhouse 4 года назад

Got the Xeon L series processors I ordered from you the other day, they are working like a charm :) I use the SSD in the CD caddy trick and it works like a charm.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Thank you for your support!!

@johngonzalez3502 4 года назад

I have a tray with the clip connected to it in my 710 server. It was an easy operation to do.That drive is my cache drive in Unraid. If you want I can show you how I did it

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

yes, please share! thanks!

@azr2d1 4 года назад

im a tad confused, I probably missed something on my end. so, I boot my esxi from my flash card (the one in front on the little daughterboard.) esxi boots. Then I need to use the ssd in the dvd tray to store vm's on. One of the vm's gets the h210 passed thru and it uses all the drives with zfs and shares them. Since the ssd is kind of small I am limited in the number of vm's. Is there another way to do this ?

@movieswovies 2 года назад

Nice and helpful video. I just want to ask that do you have any video series on troubleshooting of servers physically as I need it now on urgent basis. Thanks

@ArtofServer 2 года назад

That's a very broad topic. I do have a video showing how to troubleshoot LSI based SAS controllers, but not "servers" in general. Watch part 1 of this series, as I do some troubleshooting to fix this R710. Maybe that might help?

@azizulali3749 4 года назад

Hi, just want to ask, does 4Gb USB drive enough for vmware esxi / freenas installation? does it have performance issue for smaller size usb?

@asteroidhunters6628 4 года назад

Thats is really becoming the sexiest R710 around. :)

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Ha ha ha... ;-)

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Hi. sent you a message, let me know if you didn't get it.

@stealthsloth 4 года назад

Are there limits or specific drives sizes of drives compatible with the H700 controller? Dell r710 documentation seem pretty specific about drives sizes that the r710 supports, but I already have drives that vary in size from what is listed. For example, can I get away with using a 120GB SATA3 SSD in one of my 2.5" drive bays for a boot drive? Or in the optical bay? I just purchased my first r710 server and this is all new to me. Want to make sure I can return my drives I purchased if I won't be able to use them. Does fully updated BIOS and firmware for H700 controller allow different size drives than listed in the Dell r710 documentation?

@mikehel4533 4 года назад

in my R910 it's behind the 6 fans on the mainboard

@6LordMortus9 6 месяцев назад

4 years later and you're still getting views :) I was wondering, do you think you could use an SD Card adapter and use the more common micro sd cards for the Dell vflash?

@ArtofServer 6 месяцев назад

You might be able to, but I've never had much luck with the Dell vflash thing. I believe it requires some sort of special formatting, but I dont' recall details right now.

@nemike42 4 года назад

Has anyone tried to utilize the 7th and 8th SATA/SAS connection from the raid controller to handle a SSD?? Especially a H700 which would give us 6gb SATA/SAS ?

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

That's a really interesting idea. H700 or H200, both would provide SAS2/SATA3 capability. One would have to find a SAS cable that splits a SFF8087 to Right-angle SFF8087 + (2 other data lanes of some sort, SATA or SFF8087). Dell has a cable that is sort of like that for the R410, Dell P/N: N262J, but it's not the right type of right angle nor the right length I think. I need to see if there's a way to custom crimp SAS cables...

@christian571 4 года назад

Ive got an H200I and I am interested in how you flashed that card to IT mode while still using it in the integrated slot. Is there a guide anywhere you wrote/followed?

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v0AEHVdc_go.html

@azr2d1 4 года назад

I always thought the internal flash card also had to be the special v card. I guess not ! cheaper option now.

@mimikm222 3 года назад

Pcie adapter to m.2 drives ( not nvme) provides power to drives. Data cable for data. Works perfect.

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

That's a cool option too! I didn't think about that back when I made this video. Thanks for sharing!

@timhowitz9405 3 года назад

Where does the data cable go?

@davidwiles6042 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the vid. Which of these provides the fastest boot time and best OS performance?

@ArtofServer 6 месяцев назад

1 option I didn't really mention here, is to use the USB drive to bootstrap to a NVMe PCIe drive. I demonstrated that later in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SuAn6IG4kF4.html And by far, that was the fastest boot time I've ever seen in a R710. Of course, you OS of choice must be able to support bootstrapping from a USB drive and putting the main OS on the NVMe drive. Not all OSes will allow that easily.

@kc8dee411 4 года назад

I would like to know what u use for your kvm

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

It's just the idrac Java kvm... nothing special.

@chuxxsss 2 года назад

Hi how long does it take to get a H200 to Australia? Got one from China crash R710? No idea why.

@ArtofServer 2 года назад

usually about 1-2 weeks.

@garymccloskey3710 4 года назад

I see that you put what looks like a regular pcie card where the controller use to be. I have an r710 with a perc 6i in there. The manual says that you can't put a regular pcie card in there. It appears that you found a way or they were wrong. What part number card did you install of that one? I want to replace the perc with one flashed into it mode so I can use larger drives. I have the 2.5 inch version instead of the 3.5 inch version.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

See the earlier parts of this series on my channel. Sorry, I would link you, but on mobile, but you can find the playlist on my channel.

@blackrockcity 3 года назад

You might want to mention the different longevity/thermal characteristics of the boot options. I read that USB has a short life due to heat and wear. But in the case of a hypervisor, it won’t get used very often because the server doesn’t get rebooted frequently and the hypervisor lives in RAM with few writes to the USB. What are your thoughts on this?

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

My own experience has been pretty diverse and I can't say for certain that a USB flash drive is significantly less reliable than an SSD for the purposes of booting an OS or hypervisor. Plus, a larger sampling is probably in order to really determine the longevity of various mediums in this type of use case scenario. I don't have those stats. Don't assume hypervisors run completely from RAM; they are usually not much more than a customized OS just like any other OS. Hypervisors have to log activity, and depending on your operational and security needs, that can be a lot or little. Even if you do off-host logging, usually it's a good idea to buffer it on local storage in case of network outage or logging host going offline. In my own experience, I've had long term successes running OSes off USB flash, CF cards, SD cards, etc. But, I've also had failures too. I've also killed industrial grade high endurance SSDs due to excessive writes on very high security servers with heavy auditing/logging requirements. In short, I don't think there's a simple answer to the question, but I think it's a good question. But if you narrow down the scope of the question to what might be relevant to my audience, I think USB flash drives are fine for typical homelab use for a couple of years.

@blackrockcity 3 года назад

Art of Server I agree that usb is fine for a couple of years. But with all of the other projects going on, a couple of years has a way of flying by.

@jonathanmitchell2070 4 года назад

Hi, I am very much enjoying your comprehensive explanation of the R710. I have one question please, do you know the maximum capacity SD Card that can be used in the front SD Reader (0RN354)? I did read somewhere that this SD Reader could only cope with SDHC. SDHC seems to imply cards up to and including 32GB. I note that you say a 64GB card will work, I understand 64GB cards are SDXC. Have you tried a 64GB card, or larger perhaps?

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

i'm booting off the 64GB SD card at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6eVd1oJh4Q8.html

@jonathanmitchell2070 4 года назад

Thank you for your reply. My bad Sir, though I have watched that whole video many times, I failed to register that you were indeed booting from a 64GB SD card. It has now got me wondering if a 128GB SD would work. I think I should try, and with your permission I can post back here my findings. Once again, thank you for your quality, informative and entertaining uploads.

@TheTIUBEK 3 года назад

can i use pcie ssd m2 adapter to boot UBUNTU server OS?? i'm sure i can but something start tell me to ask

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

The server BIOS has to support booting from NVMe if you want to boot directly off NVMe. Alternatively, for something like Linux, you can put your grub on a USB drive with a initram that has the NVMe drivers to bootstrap the OS on NVMe.

@ElembeeOfficial 2 года назад

All the comments talking about using PCIe to M.2 adapter method as a boot drive, but can you use an M.2 SSD just as another storage drive and not a boot drive? Is that possible?

@ArtofServer 2 года назад

Of course

@junkyarddog4896 3 года назад

Hi, Looking to swap out the DVD optical drive with the hard drive caddy. I am aware that on a regular basis a enterprise drives are what you need for these servers. What are your thoughts since this caddy is not working off the raid controller, but off the Sata connection to use a standard SSD drive designed for desktops/laptops which is cheaper that the standard entprise drives

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

I tend to prefer enterprise SSDs with PLP. If you buy them used, it's not that much more expensive than consumer grade stuff. For enterprise SATA SSDs, look at Intel S3500/S3600/S3700 series.

@junkyarddog4896 3 года назад

@@ArtofServer Likewise on the preference. I was just thinking of putting the OS on a drive by itself and everything else on the Raid Drives. Just a thought, Thanks

@deathscreton 4 года назад

You say there's no SATA III support, but doesn't the H200 offer 6Gb/s, SATA III speeds, even when JBOD/IT mode?

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

I was mainly referring to the onboard SATA ports, which are SATA-II only. You are right that the H200 does support SATA-III because it is a SAS-2 controller and compatible with SATA-III, which are both 6Gbps; so it's mostly a SAS controller.

@jki4x4 Месяц назад

Hey guy what about using a PCIe Board with a M.2 NVMe SSD on board? Will this work for a boot Drive and if so how can you ID the Drive on boot?

@ArtofServer Месяц назад

This generation cannot boot off NVMe.

@neccros007 4 года назад

Do you have a video on installing Linux on the USB drive to let you run it off the drive? Also is it persistent?

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Sorry, not yet. But you are not the first person to ask, so it is now on my list of future video ideas.

@neccros007 4 года назад

@@ArtofServer cool....

@bishop2121212121 4 года назад

Has this video been made?

@xenoxaos1 4 года назад

I went with 4x ODD to SSD adapters. One thing I noticed was that the sata ports are IDE mode only. So the queue depth is 1. So no NCQ for the drive.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

can you share the parts you used?

@xenoxaos1 4 года назад

@@ArtofServer 2x R710s 1x R610 1x R620 3x 12.7 mm ODD to HDD for the Rx10 servers 1x 9.5mm ODD to HDD for the R620 since it uses a slimmer ODD 4x older 120GB SSDs that I had in my desktop for a while. Samsung and SanDisk. LVM'd them at 30GB for snapshot ability for the OS. Proxmox installed. Unfortunately I'm not able to change the on board sata to AHCI and they present themselves as IDE mode.

@Proactivity Год назад

I wish I'd known these existed! I ended up buying a female 22 pin 7+15 to slimline male 13 pin 7+6 SATA converter. Not sure if it has the same NCQ problem or not

@pichass9337 4 года назад

so you write the ISO to the SSD before booting from it?

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

No, I just installed the OS after installing the SSD.

@ajama1335 4 года назад

I'm looking into getting a r710 but the fan noise will be an issue, are there any aftermarket fans that are quieter?

@pixitha 4 года назад

You can lower the speed of the fans in ipmi with scripts.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

The fan noise often depends on the components you install. You might want to check out this video here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LYTjgSw1OEA.html where I take actual sound meter readings. Noise is sort of a subjective thing, and each individual has different tolerances for that, and even different tolerances in different situations. So, I think it's best to try to compare quantitatively. In my own subjective opinion, R710 can actually be pretty quiet, but it is not silent that's for sure.

@ericfranklin6229 4 года назад

You won't find any aftermarket fans ready to use. I have noticed that with low power cpu's and no non-dell pci cards installed the 710 fan noise is minimal. But if you go to the x5600 cpu the fans get louder. Non dell cards will sometimes put fans at up to 80 percent. Slowing down you fans can cause hard drives to overheat under heavy load. You've been warned. LoL

@robertdemint1853 4 года назад

Really like your videos on the R710 please keep em coming. Just picked one up, i also got a H200 controller but it is not setup for integrated slot. I watched your video on how to change it but i really don't know what im doing wrong. I was trying to do it in a live session of ubuntu 18.04 but could not get lsirec to work. Would you be willing to help me or could i send the card to you to get it working? Thanks for all your great videos wish i had your talent, but im a 62 yr old that just loves this stuff and not much time in linux. sorry for long post.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

Glad you enjoying this series 😊. Shoot me an email and maybe I can help you with that H200.

@robertdemint1853 4 года назад

@@ArtofServer how do i send you an email im new using utube this way?

@robertdemint1853 4 года назад

never mind found on your home page, and thanks

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

@@robertdemint1853 see the 'about' page of my channel.

@robertdemint1853 4 года назад

utube won't let me see email says my system my be sending to many requests, dont have a clue what they mean.

@exshenanigan2333 2 года назад

i moved my boot ssd from sata to one of the empty sas ports. speeds doubled. fyi anyone looking to get full performance out of their ssds on systems like these (mine is t110ii)

@jdsim9173 2 года назад

Can you use the usb to m.2 card for this?

@ArtofServer 2 года назад

Sure, just like the USB msata.

@3v068 2 года назад

Im struggling to get a VM with a 4TB seagate Barracuda drive. Im using the perc h700 and when I go to make a VM with my 4 TB drive, brand new, it only allows me to use 930 GB at max. I've updated everything and I cant seem to get the full utilization of the drive. What could cause that?

@ArtofServer 2 года назад

Is it a 4Kn drive?

@3v068 2 года назад

@@ArtofServer No Idea what a 4kn drive is. Im starting to think its because it might be SAS only and not SATA

@azr2d1 4 года назад

I found a caddy that does hold the bracket to lock it in place. Was able to move it over.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

awesome! link to product?

@azr2d1 4 года назад

@@ArtofServer Here you go ; smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XIU4T2

@azr2d1 4 года назад

Did yours not have the 3 little holes on the back ? I see a lot of them have the 3 holes. This was I was able to screw the bracket right back in. What size are the little screws/bolt ? I couldn't find any match and just used pliers.

@edbouhl3100 2 года назад

@@azr2d1 No longer available on Amazon although the listing is still there.

@Stephen210Gaming Год назад

I do I get windows on a dell power edge H710 Mini Server

@ArtofServer Год назад

not sure what a H710 mini server is? do you mean a R710 server? or do you mean you have a server with a H710 mini SAS controller?

@duffdunlap6705 4 года назад

I have a off topic question. I just got my first R710 got it up and running works great but I can not got to the Idrac login. I use 192.168.0.120 as an IP and I get can not find page. I have checked and rechecked but I can not find where my issue is. Any ideas of where I should look.

@ArtofServer 4 года назад

that's a very open ended question. i would start by checking that your networking is setup correctly. can you ping the iDRAC ip? also, do you have the iDRAC enterprise module?

@duffdunlap6705 4 года назад

This is all new to me. Decided I needed a new hobby. Show this series and off I go. I do have the enterprise connection. Have into my network.

@duffdunlap6705 4 года назад

Will try to Ping it

@blackrockcity 3 года назад

Also, if you are using your server as your LAN router, I don’t think the router software will be able to see its own onboard iDrac IP. In that scenario, you might have to run a cable from the IDrac to the LAN switch or a switch port on your NIC. Am I wrong about this?

@TrollingAround 4 года назад

From memory - the Dell branded SD cards are 100% under provisioned - so a 4GB card is actually a 8GB card, 4GB, with 4GB spare to map in when cells die. You'd be very unlucky to pick up cards that are near the end of their life..

@jonathanbuzzard1376 3 года назад

There is a trick here that you are missing. You don't need to install your whole operating system on the USB/SD card etc. All you require in Linux at least is to put /boot on there. The OS itself then runs on the main software RAID array, where you get the benefit of having your OS under RAID protection. Not that I have ever tried but I imagine you can do something similar with FreeBSD based systems. Once you are only using the USB/SD card for boot, the speed matters even less and reliability goes through the roof. You are only writing to the device when you update the kernel or boot loader. To put this into context, if you consider CentOS6 there where 118 kernels and 11 versions of grub. The chances of you wearing out even the cheapest of flash devices is close to zero. To make things even better you can have a cronjob that copies the contents of /boot onto the main RAID disks. Then if the boot flash device does give up the ghost then you can install a replacement device, boot from recovery media, copy the data back and reinstall the boot loader. Even better the chances are it will give up the ghost during update of the kernel/bootloader which is when you are actually writing to the device so you have notice it has not worked and can fix it in scheduled downtime. I have been using this technique for well over a decade and have yet to actually see a USB/SDcard boot device fail.

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

I am aware of that technique too, and demonstrated it in my video on installing Linux OS on NVMe on legacy systems that can't boot directly off NVMe. In this case however, the intent was to put the 6 drive bays into a pure data pool, so I would need another location to put the OS content in. If I were to put the OS on any of the other options mentioned in this video, which are natively bootable on their own, I saw no advantage in putting just /boot on the sdcard in the back.

@jonathanbuzzard1376 3 года назад

@@ArtofServer The advantage is having your OS protected by RAID. Which is for a server somewhat important, what's the point in having massive of redundancy in the system and then creating a runtime single point of failure? The only time I don't do RAID on a server OS disk is the compute nodes on the HPC cluster at work. Loosing a single node is not a big deal we have many many others, and the user can just resubmit the job. When you do the math it's better in terms of flops per dollar over the lifetime of the system, to spend the money saved from not doing RAID to buying more servers. I also don't when using Linux see the issue with using a small portion of your VG to create an LV for OS, might be different with ZFS on FreeBSD but that is outside my experience. Insisting that all your disks are used for data is simply silly.

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

@@jonathanbuzzard1376 for the use cases of most homelabs, I think the protection of OS install is a bit less important. But at the end of the day, that's a personal choice for the owner of the server, and may depend on what they are planning to do and their tolerance for os drive failure. In a business environment, I would agree with you on single node applications for SMBs. For larger environment, you're not likely to run anything on a single node if it's important. And if you have automated deployment infrastructure, rebuilding the OS on a failed node should be quick and simple, and segregation of data and OS makes data management easier. But, let's say we put the OS on the main drive bays with redundancy and carved out space for it. It would be natively bootable by itself. I see no advantage in separating /boot on the sdcard. Just boot off the RAID, why complicate it with a separate /boot?

@jonathanbuzzard1376 2 года назад

@@ArtofServer In Linux at least you can't natively boot off a RAID5/6 software RAID disk as none of the boot loaders understand that. As I understand it none of the boot loaders understand ZFS either. You can mess about partitioning your drives to make a boot partition but it's a mess and makes replacing a failed drive more complicated than it needs to be. That's why putting just /boot on USB/SD card is a nice work around, that keeps your RAID/ZFS array setup clean. On an R710 the most sensible option of course is a 2.5" drive in the optical bay IMHO.

@Anne14881 3 года назад

When installing windows server 2019 or any other windows is for that matter on my Poweredge R710, windows says that they see no hard drives when I clearly have 4 Sata hard drives connected. How do I fix this problem

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

What kind of SAS controller are you using in the R710?

@Anne14881 3 года назад

None. Im using a Perc 6 i

@Anne14881 3 года назад

It also dosent see any of my Sas Drives either

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

@@Anne14881 did you configure a virtual drive in the perc6?

@Anne14881 3 года назад

Not to my knowledge

@razorx2024 3 года назад

the only thing i've gotten to successfully and reliably install and run from the idrac sd card via emulated hdd image is ESXI, There is also a sixth option which works which is to use one of these: www.ebay.com/itm/M-2-NGFF-to-Desktop-PCIe-x4-x8-x16-NVMe-SATA-Dual-SSD-PCI-Express-Adapter-Card/153423065707 and use the Sata B Key which is the one directly to the left of the Sata connector, so what you do is plug in the pcie card with your M.2 attached to the port directly to the left of the Sata connector into your R710 and connect a Sata cable going from the pcie card to the R710 motherboard next to the existing Sata cable which goes to the disc drive and enable port b in the bios and then you can install whatever you like to it and boot directly into it as well.

@ArtofServer 3 года назад

That's an awesome tip! I wish I had known about such adapters when I made this video! Thanks for sharing this with other viewers!

@razorx2024 3 года назад

@@ArtofServer np, i'm having a lot of fun messing with my R710 on unraid :D including automatically controlling the fan speed so it's super quiet.

@lt.cloptin4128 8 месяцев назад

Might be an obscure question but i ordered an ssd bay for the cd slot. And while unpacking it i thought the platic wrapping that came on it was meant to be taken off, but it seems it may have been there to prevent a short. Should I be worried? @artofserver

@ArtofServer 8 месяцев назад

I'm not sure what could short on a SSD bay? I've never seen that before so I can't say. If anything, you would want things to be grounded properly to the chassis.

@lt.cloptin4128 8 месяцев назад

@@ArtofServer thank you!