Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Dell Perc S300



8149: Acronis Bootable Media Does Not Support Dell PERC S300 or S100 RAID

http://kb.acronis.com/content/8149

this took up way too much of my weekend.

a client asked me to image an old PowerEdge 2850 and slap it into a new AMD powered Dell PowerEdge r415.. imaging the older system with its PERC 5i hardware RAID posed no challenge. Not so with the new PowerEdge R415 and it's Software based "windows only" PERC S300 RAID controller.
I recommended that the client migrate applications (Peachtree accounting and a few other legacy apps + 200 gigs of files) and also to purchase a hardware based PERC H700 RAID controller.