Fess up on the mistake to the client AND the vendor. Things happen. Talk to Dell and see if there are some options. Hopefully, you haven't opened the card yet.
* * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:27 AM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > Background:**** > > A %nightjob% client (17 employees) of mine has a Dell PowerEdge 840 with 4 > SATA drives, two volumes of RAID1 (2x250GB for C: and D: , 2x500GB for E:) > **** > > OS is SBS 2003 and they use SQL in addition to Exchange (when I spec’d this > in 2007, SQL wasn’t involved). I have split up Exchange / SQL Log/DB files > as best I can.**** > > ** ** > > This has been working OK but they app that uses SQL is kind of a pig and it > and Exchange create a lot of disk contention. I got the bright idea to have > them buy $600 of 15K RPM SAS drives and an external enclosure and is bundled > with a SAS RAID5 card (PCIe 4x – this is important for later…).**** > > ** ** > > I figured I’d create a RAID5 volume and point SQL over to this new drive > array and performance should be much improved, my theory being is the system > will be as fast or faster pre-SQL (my thinking was I might be able to move > some other things off the SATA drives and onto the faster controller/disks). > **** > > ** ** > > The mistake:**** > > Parts are onsite, and tonight I go to install the RAID card and….heeeeey, > this system has ONE PCIe 8x slot and ONCE PCIe 1x slot, plus some standard > PCI slots. Populating the PCIe 8x slot is a SAS 5/iR controller hooked to > the four SATA drives. In other words, the shiny new toy I had them purchase > won’t work because I had assumed the existing RAID controller was built-in. > It hadn’t occurred to me as a remote possibility that there would be > insufficient slots, I hadn’t added a thing to this server since they’d > bought it.**** > > ** ** > > What would you guys do? Send the hardware back and plead mea culpa? Is > there any way to put the existing SATA array on a different card (say, a > PCIe 1x SATA RAID card) without having to rebuild the volumes? I’ve looked > for SAS RAID5 PCIe 1x (yes, it would be slower than 4x but still better than > the stiff internal) but no luck.**** > > ** ** > > Maybe I’m over thinking this after a 17hr day (between %dayjob% and > %nightjob%), but I welcome your guys’ input.**** > > ** ** > > *David Lum* * > *Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 //* *Mobile 503.267.9764**** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
