Hello.   Could someone please validate, the parts I believe are necessary for this change to work (see below): * please note, we are deciding between the H730p minicard or the H730 controller card. 1. If we go with the H730P minicard customer kit, then need cable part # K43RY 2. If we go with the H730 controller customer kit, then need cable part # 1N2WK   PERC H730 P SAS cable is of P/N 1N2WK . These cables should be abale to work on any of the controllers   Contact your sales representative. Upgrading parts does not affect your system warranty but the same parts may not be covered under same warranty because they were not part of the orignal server order.   Plan to migrate by doing the following, overview (once parts are validated)   You are on the right track and good luck!  
I have a few R630 systems that were initially deployed as "diskless" with external storage for a virtual environment.  The environment is expanding and would like to upgrade the existing servers to allow for VSAN by leveraging a hardware RAID controller.   From what I'm finding, this is possible as long as all the parts are installed.  The Dell customer kit for the controllers contain the card or minicard, but not the cable necessary to connect to the backplane.   The chassis of the R630 being used is the 8-bay 2.5". Could someone please validate, the parts I believe are necessary for this change to work (see below): * please note, we are deciding between the H730p minicard or the H730 controller card. 1. If we go with the H730P minicard customer kit, then need cable part # K43RY 2. If we go with the H730 controller customer kit, then need cable part # 1N2WK Also, will the warranty/maintenance on the actual system still be valid? These systems will be rebuilt, so no data will be involved or need to be backed up. Plan to migrate by doing the following, overview (once parts are validated) Thank you.
Poweredge R630 (diskless) - upgrade from software RAID to hardware RAID