Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller S140 User’s Guide

1 Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller S140 User s GuideJune 2022 Rev. A14 Notes, cautions, and warningsNOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your : A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoidthe : A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. 2017-2022 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its trademarks may be trademarks of their respective 1: 7 PERC S140 7 Supported operating 10 Supported PowerEdge 10 Supported physical applications for the PERC 2: Physical disk disk 12 Physical disk disk power 12 Physical disk failure 12 Mirror 13 Fault 13 Self-Monitoring And Reporting 13 Native Command 13 NVMe PCIe SSD 13 Physical disk write cache policy for SATA 14 Linux 3: Virtual 15 Virtual disk for SATA 15 Disk 16 Background Array 16 Virtual disk cache 16 Virtual disk 17 Expanding virtual disk 17 Chapter 4: Cabling the drives for 19 Disk connectivity for AHCI 20 Chapter 5.

2 BIOS Configuration 21 Entering the BIOS configuration 21 Exiting the BIOS Configuration 22 Initializing the physical 22 Converting to RAID to Non-RAID 22 Creating the virtual virtual disk sizes while creating a virtual disk ..23 Deleting the virtual 23 Swapping two virtual 24 ContentsContents3 Managing the hot spare 24 Assigning the global hot spare 24 Assigning the dedicated hot spare hot spare 25 Viewing the physical disks 25 Viewing the virtual disks 26 Controller 26 Continue to 26 Chapter 6: UEFI RAID configuration 27 Entering the DELL PERC S140 Configuration 27 Exiting the DELL PERC S140 Configuration 28 Controller 28 Viewing the Controller 28 Changing the boot order of the virtual 29 Stopping the system from booting if there is a critical BIOS a physical disk to a Non-RAID 29 Converting physical disk to RAID capable 30 Virtual disk 30 Configuring Windows 30 Configuring Linux 31 Manage virtual disk 32 Viewing virtual disks properties and a virtual 34 Physical disk 35 Viewing physical disk 35 Managing the physical disk write cache policy for SATA the global hot a global hot 37 Assigning the dedicated

3 Hot 37 Cryptographic 38 Viewing global hot 38 Chapter 7: Installing the 39 Pre-installation 39 Setting the SATA Controller to RAID mode .. 39 Setting the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode ..39 Creating a virtual PERC S140 options and the boot list the device driver media for Windows driver 41 Downloading drivers for PERC S140 from the Dell support website for all operating drivers from the Dell Systems Service and Diagnostic Tools media for 41 Accessing ZP 41 Chapter 8: Troubleshooting your 43 Precautions for hot removal or hot insertion of NVMe 43 Unable to configure Linux RAID using UEFI Configuration 434 ContentsPerformance degradation after disabling SATA physical disk write cache 44 Unable to modify any feature settings in UEFI or reboot during OS 44 After enabling Hypervisor, system displays Blue Screen of 44 After enabling node interleaving in BIOS, system displays Blue Screen of Death.

4 44OS installation failing on NVMe PCIe SSD with third-party 45 System startup 45 System does not 45 Controller mode is set incorrectly at system setup .. 45 Boot mode, boot sequence, and or boot sequence retry are set incorrectly .. 45 Bootable virtual disk is in a failed state ..46 The boot order is incorrect for a bootable virtual disk ..46A Non-RAID virtual disk is no longer in first position in the BIOS configuration utility list after asystem reboot .. 46 The BIOS configuration utility option does not display ..46 Configuring RAID using the ROM Utility option is 46 Warning 46 WARNING- Found virtual disks that are degraded .. 47 WARNING - Found virtual disks that are failed.

5 47 WARNING - Found virtual disks that are degraded and failed .. 47 Offline status of SAMSUNG 1733 or 1735 drives .. 48 Other errors appearing on the BIOS 48 BSOD is observed while booting on the NVMe configuration of dump file 48S140 does not display greater than ten virtual disks in the BIOS Configuration Utility or CTRL R .. 48 Unable to delete virtual disks when there are more than 30 virtual disks present in the 48 Virtual disk rebuild status in the BIOS Configuration Utility (<CTRL> <R>) or in UEFI 49 Physical disk - related 49 The physical disk 49 Cannot initialize a physical disk ..49 Status LED is not and unblinking feature not working on PowerEdge R740.

6 50 Cannot update NVMe PCIe SSD firmware by using Dell Update Package or 50 Third-party driver installation for NVMe PCIe SSD 50 Unable to find the NVMe PCIe SSD for operating system 50 Virtual disks - related 50 Stale partitions are listed on creating a virtual disk for 51 Rebuilding a virtual disk the global hot spare is not listed as online in HII or 51 Virtual disk size in decimals is not supported while creating a create a virtual virtual disk is in a degraded 52 Cannot assign a dedicated hot spare to a virtual create a global hot spare .. 53A dedicated hot spare or degraded virtual disk .. 54 Cannot create a virtual disk on selected physical disks.

7 55 RAID disk created from the NVMe PCIe SSDs not appearing in operating system environment,showing as partitioned disks .. 55 Cannot perform an online capacity expansion or reconfigure on a virtual disk .. 55 Unable to configure RAID on NVMe PCIe SSD using a third party RAID configuration utility ..55 Contents5S140 config driver is not installed after S140 DUP is 55 Chapter 9: Getting 56 Locating your system Service Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) S140 is a software RAID solution for the Dell PowerEdge systems. The S140controller supports up to 30 Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) PCIe SSDs, SATA SSDs, SATA HDDs depending on yoursystem backplane : PERC S140 specifications Supported operating systems Supported PowerEdge systems Supported physical disks Management applications for the PERC S140 PERC S140 specificationsThe following table provides PERC S140 specifications for SATA and NVMe PCIe SSDs:NOTE: Specifications vary depending on the system 1.

8 Specifications for PERC S140 SpecificationPERC S140 SATA SSD technologyYesNVMe supportYesSAS connectorsNoDell-compliant SAS compatibilityNoDirect-connected end devicesDell-compliant HDDs and SSDsSMART error support through management applicationsYesBackplane supported systemsYesSupport for internal tape driveNoSupport for global hot spareYesSupport for 512 native and 512e drivesYesSupport for 4Kn native drivesNoMaximum number of global hot sparesVaries with the number of free disks in the number of physical disk supported (SATA +NVMe)30 Minimum RAM size required16 GBTable 2. SATA Specifications for PERC S140 SpecificationPERC S140 Dell-compliant SATA compatibilityYesCommunication with the end devicesSATA linksSATA connectorsDiscrete on the system board1 Overview7 Table 2.

9 SATA Specifications for PERC S140 (continued)SpecificationPERC S140I/O controllerIntel C621 (C620 series chipset) (onboard SATA) and AdvancedMicro Devices (AMD)Communication with the systemIntegratedSoftware-based RAID for SATA drivesWindows RAID: Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10 Linux RAID: RAID 1 NOTE: Non-boot virtual disks of any supported RAID level by the Linux OS installed on RAID-1 disk can also be createdusing native Linux RAID through SSD supportYesTable 3. NVMe Specifications for PERC S140 SpecificationPERC S140On systems running Windows, if there is no NSID=1 present on the NVMe drive, the drive is not accessible and is markedoffline. Firmware upgrades run on the NVMe drive are successful, number of namespace(s) supported1 NOTE: If the drive having more than one namespace(s) is connected, the drive is marked offline and is connectorsPCIe/slimlineNOTE: Only Dell-compliant NVMe PCIe SSD inch Small Form Factor (SFF), or NVMe PCIe SSD Adapters NVMe compatibilityYesCommunication with end devicesPCIeSoftware-based RAID for NVMe PCIe SSDsWindows RAID: Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10 Linux RAID: RAID 1 NOTE.

10 Non-boot virtual disks of any supported RAID level by the Linux OS installed on RAID-1 disk can also be createdusing native Linux RAID through NVMe PCIe SSD supportYesThe following table provides PERC S140 virtual disk specifications:Table 4. Virtual disk specifications for PERC S140 with SATA configuration SpecificationPERC S140 Maximum number of physical disks supported12 Maximum number of virtual disks supported30 NOTE: Maximum number of virtual disks may exceed 30 when: physical disks are migrated from any other configuration a disk in Ready state is converted to a non-RAID diskMaximum number of virtual disks supported from a singledisk group8 NOTE: Maximum number of virtual disks can exceed more than 8 from a single disk group as there is no constraint fromPERC virtual disk (VD) size10 GB8 OverviewTable 4.