Some other day of work, I moved my idle server set to office so that they get being use instead of sitting in the living room collecting dust.

On hand are a Dell H810 and LSI 9285-8e External SAS card, they are to be use for connecting to the Dell PowerVault MD1200 DAS.

I could not get the server to see the cards, not from BIOS, not from Lifecycle Controller, not from the OS, it was not a great experience due to limited work space and other distracted micro tasks….

Took me 2 days on and off to finally Google the manual, turns out the R730 that was idle was a failsafe unit and it only comes with 1 CPU, in that case, PCIe cards can only be use on Raiser 3, which I only tested 1 and 2…

Lesson learnt, RTFM, again, ALWAYS RTFM. (and yes, multitasking different tasks on different fields are really distracting, needs to strongly avoid)

REF:
Dell PowerEdge R730 Owner’s Manual – Expansion card installation guidelines
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-aw/poweredge-r730/r730_ompublication/expansion-card-installation-guidelines?guid=guid-48fdcedc-e689-4cb6-a83c-7b9ea4e31449&lang=en-us