Disk Activity Alert Windows SBS 2003 on Dell PowerEdge 830 with Raid
- by Ron Whites
Background:
I have a Dell PowerEdge 830 Server running Windows SB Server 2003.
It has 4gbs of RAM and a ATA CERC SATA 6CH controller with 3 160gb drives in a Raid 5
configuration.
The Problem
I am seeing Admin ---"Disk Activity Alert on Server" emails
These often occur when disk backups, de-frag or high disk usage is going on.
Generally the server isn't over stressed.
The Disk Alert emails say in part ...
The following disk has low idle time, which may cause slow response time when reading or writing files to the disk. Disk: 0 C: F: D:
Review the Disk Transfers/sec and % Idle Time counters for the PhysicalDisk performance object. If the Disk Transfers/sec counter is consistently below 150 while the % Idle Time counter remains very low (close to 0), there may be a problem with the disk driver or hardware.
The Questions I have:
With what utility can I review the Disk Transfers/sec and Idle Time?
It appears there is no utility for that on the server!
I think I may need to download a very large (two DVD) Dell "OpenManage" utility to be able to monitor the raid system and see what is a problem is that true?