Install of H700 controller in dell R610

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We have just brought a refurbished dell R610 2 X 6 Core X5650, 96G Ram, SAS 6ir Raid Controller, 2 X Fujitsu MBC2073RC 2.5-Inch 15K 73GB SAS Hard Drive.

We are going to also be installing additional drives:

  • 2 X Intel 730 2.5-Inch 480 GB SSD's SSDSC2BP480G4R5
  • 2 X Samsung Momentus SpinPoint ST2000LM003 2TB 2.5"

I also seperatly brought a refurbished H700 Raid controller to use rather than the SAS 6ir card.

I now have all the parts in front of me (I hope) but on searching for install instructions I can't seem to find decent instructions / videos on how to install this card in the H700. Does anyone have links or can describe what to do? Eg should I:

  • Remove the existing SAS 6ir and install the H700 where the 6iR was? (I am guessing yes…)
  • etc

Eg in the Dell R610 owners manual on page 89 they talk generally about installing an expansion card. I also looked in the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards H700 and H800 but that talks a lot about configuration of parameters for performance, configuring RAID etc but it doesn't really talk much about actual installation.

So how do I install this H700 card in our Dell R610? Hints, pointers, links?

[Edit] Photos are:

H700

H700

H700 Label

H700 Label

H700 plus cables

H700 Overview

Cable Ends

H700 Cable Ends

R610 Overview

R610 Overview

SAS 6ir Card

SAS 6ir Card

Best Answer

There are three types of H700 cards.

  1. Dell PERC H7000 Integrated Card
    • This looks almost exactly like the adapter card, key difference is the PCIe backing plate seen in 2nd image below.

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  1. Dell PERC H700 Adapter Card

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  1. Dell PERC H7000 Modular Card

I couldn't find a good pic for one of these. They only existed for a short time until Dell went to another version and called it the H710, which only lasted a short while until the H800 modular card.

The integrated card installs into the dedicated internal storage slot of the server. See your server motherboard map that came with it to identify the exact location. I put a photo of the motherboard view at the bottom of the post. The adapter goes into a PCIe slot - self explanatory The Modular installs only into blade servers, if you have that one. Bad luck.

Motherboard View

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Once you've completed physical installation update your firmware to the most recent version. I believe it's AO6 but you will want to validate. Here's a link to AO6.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=3HD0T

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