Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary "system reconfiguration" required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machine would just give a "blue screen of death"
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Download link to Dell OpenManage System Administrator Managed Node installer that allows you to view hardware, including RAID, status on a Dell server from within Windows. It also adds logging to the event logs (which can then be monitored) for RAID-related errors and warnings.