There are 3 different variants of the S5000VSA and it appears they removed BIOS and most drivers :
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/suppo … vsa-family.html
drivers: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/77877

Archive org: https://web.archive.org/web/20171002031448/ht … m/product/77877
so yes that firmware update for DOS dated 12/21/2010 is the last BIOS I could find. Let me dig thru the DL's of the Intel archives and maybe it is in there....

added: they have the bios and drivers at rebyte.me in their Intel section
all files: https://rebyte.me/en/intel/1475/
bios: https://rebyte.me/en/intel/1475/?fileTypeId=3

This is great. Thank you so much Horun. I will give the 101 firmware a shot and hope the intergrated RAID boots. It is funny the systen boots fine off the 2012 r2 dvd, but it won't off the RAID controller.

Thanks again Horun. The s5000VSA_DOS_BIOS101 BIOS worked! It cleared out the RAID configurations which had me sweating for a bit, but just had to regroup the proper drives back into the Vitural disks of the RAID config screen, and 2012 R2 is now booting and finished the 2008 R2 inplace update. I have always been for lack of a better word, and intel fanboy, but this move to pull older BIOS's and updates was a real dick move on intels part, specifically for server based products.

lowlytech wrote on 2020-03-01, 16:31:

The s5000VSA_DOS_BIOS101 BIOS worked!

Great ! Glad you got it working !

Hi guys , please kindly help i am stuck for days with the same Server s5000vsa, i want to find out whether can this server take win srv2019, I have created raid 10 with 4x 2tbs same brand but when i load OS via usb with ISO img, I dont see drives to install but when i change raid mode to enhanced or legacy i can see the drives, i have been looking for raid drivers i cant seem to get anything

Hizus wrote on 2021-06-08, 12:24:

Hi guys , please kindly help i am stuck for days with the same Server s5000vsa, i want to find out whether can this server take win srv2019, I have created raid 10 with 4x 2tbs same brand but when i load OS via usb with ISO img, I dont see drives to install but when i change raid mode to enhanced or legacy i can see the drives, i have been looking for raid drivers i cant seem to get anything

Which RAID controller does you board variant use ?
As mentioned by Horun, there are multiple variant of this board model . They have different storage controller configurations.

Once you know which controller your board uses, you can try the drivers on https://rebyte.me/en/intel/1475/ or look on the Internet for generic drivers that support whatever controller you do have . You may not find drivers explicitly for Windows Server 2019, but drivers for older versions of Windows server might work . I am not sure how backward compatible Windows Server is, but lots of drivers from as far as Windows Vista do still work on Windows 10 . Also, as you likely already know, 32-bit Windows requires 32-bit drivers and 64-bit Windows requires 64-bit drivers.

Thanks, I am not sure If I am pointing to the right direction of which raid controller, but this server uses onboard hot swappable drives, I do however have a PCI raid controller (mr sata 300-8x L3-01038-02b)

This is the server board version

Is there perhaps an easy way for my need,
I have 4x2TB and I want to have them as one drives so when I store files I don’t have to access different drives, so I thought raid10 would save me with a plus of having it as a data backup.now that I’m failing to get the raid working I will install the OS on Enhanced mode then add other 3 drives is there a way that I can merge them?
and what would be a best solution for backup other than manual with extHdd.

My first prize would be getting the raid working

Thank very much i the links did the trick , now I faced a different issue. Raid 10 shows it’s running and online on the start up and server 2019 boots and longs in in raid mode as wanted.

My issue now seeing that I configured RAID10 with 4x2TB when I look under my computer it only shows 1x2TB and another 2TB shows under disk manager but I can’t access or format it. I kinda understand that the other 2x2TB is not showing cz of the RAID 10 setup.

My question is how to I get the other hdd to show.

Second question if I’m successful how does one do backup on raid10 , can I remove two HDDs and plug in another 2x2TB then expected it to rebuild? If that is the case which drives do I take out? I can take anyone in no order? or I must always keep those in port0 & 1 there place on port 2&3?

Sorry guys I’m very new in this

Hizus wrote on 2021-06-11, 16:34:

Thank very much i the links did the trick , now I faced a different issue. Raid 10 shows it’s running and online on the start up […]
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Thank very much i the links did the trick , now I faced a different issue. Raid 10 shows it’s running and online on the start up and server 2019 boots and longs in in raid mode as wanted.

My issue now seeing that I configured RAID10 with 4x2TB when I look under my computer it only shows 1x2TB and another 2TB shows under disk manager but I can’t access or format it. I kinda understand that the other 2x2TB is not showing cz of the RAID 10 setup.

My question is how to I get the other hdd to show.

Second question if I’m successful how does one do backup on raid10 , can I remove two HDDs and plug in another 2x2TB then expected it to rebuild? If that is the case which drives do I take out? I can take anyone in no order? or I must always keep those in port0 & 1 there place on port 2&3?

Sorry guys I’m very new in this

According to the manual, https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12353364 , the maximum logical drive size you can configure is 2TB . You may want to consider defining 2 RAID1 arrays on the controller and running Windows software RAID0 on top.

EDIT: RAID is meant to increase resilience to hardware failure . It is not a backup solution. You do not make a backup by using the RAID controller's rebuild functionality to make a copy . This breaks redundancy while the rebuild is running and exposes you to DATA loss if the drive from which the controller is copying fails . Additionally, regularly doing this would be unnecessarily taxing on the drives. One scenario for a backup solution would be to use a separate volume connected either locally to he machine or via a network link (NAS) .

There are multiple software solutions to do this, Windows Server 2019 might even include one . Otherwise, a robocopy scheduled task , Synctoy (if that still exists ) or a variety of commercial products exist .