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Dell Blades or C-Series Rack servers for datacenter virtualization project
We have customers infrastructure hosted on physical HP boxes across several racks and finally we are planning to migrate them to Vsphere.Data is stored on NFS SAN.It was suggested to use c-Series Dell ...
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How does Dell EqualLogic keep track of 15MB pages?
I would like to code a recovery utility for working on raw data from Dell EqualLogic devices but the barrier is that it does automatic tiering of data and moves things around at will in 15MB pages. It ...
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Is it possible to install a virtual machine under Linux that looks like a Windows machine to IT? [closed]
I'm on a corporate network with a homogeneous Windows setup for all Dell workstations. They use KBOX to manage the workstations. I want to set up my machine to run several VMs under Linux instead, but ...
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Can I use my older NiCD Battery Chargers to charge my Ni-MH batteries? [closed]
I get a 5200mah Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery on www.laptopbatteryselling.com .can i use the nicd battery charger to charger my new battery,
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Dell poweredge 1650 server blinking orange
I have an old server running for my application. I just checked that it has started flashing orange suddenly from blue. Does anyone know what does this mean?
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interference between redundant power supplies
I have a number of dell servers and two UPS. I plan to give two different input to servers from two different UPS, my question is:
A short circuit of redundant powersupply unit (PSU1) will trip one ...
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Dell PowerEdge R710 Bios “Advanced ECC” with ECC DIMMs?
I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 with dual 55xx CPUs. It has 96GB(12x8GB) of ECC DIMMs.
In its BIOS, memory is configured for "Advanced ECC".
My question is if my DIMMs are already ECC, does it make sense ...
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Dell MD1000 and an x4 SAS connector throughput / layout
I'm trying to get my head around how a multi lane x4 SAS connector works in a DAS system such as the Dell MD1000. I understand that each lane is 3Gbps, and that multiple hard drives can share a lane. ...
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dell idrac6 allow access to one IP address
I have a dell R410 with dell idrac6 (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 - Enterprise) which is in a data center in another country. I configured my idrac with public ip address but I have to ...
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Dell Powerconnect 6224 can not connect to powerconenct 5548
Working on one problem with Dellpowerconnect 6224 switch can not connect to Dell powerconnect 5548.
So any idea any solutions in mind.
Thanks
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dell poweredge 2850 backplane swap
I just ordered a dell poweredge 2850. I am wondering if it is possible to replace its backplane with the sata backplane of a dell poweredge 2950.
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BladeCenter DELL M1000e reset ALL servers logs at once
Some weeks ago, I did faced a crash on my bladecenter due to a cooling issue on our DC.
Everything is up now, and all servers contain by the bladecenter have been checked and are now correctly ...
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DELL switch CAM table don't show MAC from different network
I'm solving problem with slow DHCP request/respons about 45 secs...toplogy is [L2] DELL 6248 -> [L2->L3] router (cisco) -> firewall Debian server with DHCP -> gateway to internet
I think that problem ...
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Manage Dell workstations with OpenManage Essentials (OME)
How can I manage Dell workstations with OpenManage Essentials ?
First, is it possible? Because iv read that only Dell servers can be managed with OME.
I would like to inventory each Dell ...
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Equallogic ESXI 4.1 Slow read performance
We experience a slow read performance with a high read latency in vSphere/ESXi on our Equallogic iSCSI array (14x 750gb in RAID10). We checked already very much but cannot find anything.
Setup:
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Possible rooted debian (wheezy) server?
The first symptom was that I couldn't connect on port 6667, thus falling of irc-servers (and was unable to connect to them again). After some tcpdumping etc. I couldn't figure out what caused this, ...
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Install Windows Server 2008 Core on a Dell Optiplex 790
Does anybody have experience installing Windows Server 2008 Core on a Dell Optiplex 790? When I connect to the machine with the Hyper-V Manager Administrator snap-in, and try to create and run a ...
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DELL DRAC & Ubuntu VPN Connection
I am trying to connect to a DELL DRAC card without success by Ubuntu VPN Connection Manager. I have these data:
Protocol: PPTP
SERVER IP PPTP: 1233.123.123.123
DRAC IP: 192.168.10.25
Subnet: ...
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Which type of RAM is supported in our servers?
I need to increase the RAM in our DELL servers. I tried using lshw to see what is already installed, but I cannot see if the RAM installed is a UDIMM or RDIMM.
Handle 0x1100, DMI type 17, 28 bytes
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No partition found error when installing an OS on Dell Poweredge with RAID
I have three Dell 1850 rack servers:
One has 3 GB of RAM and two 73GB HDD's.
Two others have 6 GB RAM and each of them has two 73GB HDD's.
I am currently trying to install an OS on them, but when ...
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DRAC for remote OS install w/o Virtual Media
I have a few DELL servers in a remote DC and our ISP has been very kind about doing OS installs for us. However, as we move to Production and multiple DC's I'd like to be able to do the ...
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Dell Poweredge 1950 with Perc 5i keeps losing raid config -> “Foreign Configuration Found”
The quick and dirty: the machine is a Dell Poweredge 1950, dual xeon quad cores, 8GB of ram, 2 2TB seagate SATAs in (supposed to be raid1) using a Perc 5i raid card. They are hot-swappable with a ...
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Dell's equivalents for HP's hpasmcli and hpacucli tools?
As per title. Basically what are Dell's online tools for checking or changing BIOS/RAID-controller level conf. For Linux.
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Very slow disk performance on Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ PERC 6/i running RAID 10
I recently set up a server running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server - it has 6 500 gb 7200RPM SATA drives setup in a RAID 10 config.
I am seeing extremely poor disk performance - the ...
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What's the difference between Dell ProSupport/Gold/Silver/MissionCritical/etc. warranties? [closed]
I'm having trouble finding any documentation on this, but I vaguely remember something about MissionCritical letting you demand them send a tech out "NOW!" before even commencing basic phone support ...
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Disable fan management on Dell Poweredge SC1425
I have Dell Poweredge SC1425 server that has a failed fan. This causes the server to increase the speed of the other fans to their maximum. The server is being used in a very cool place so I was ...
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Is DELL R510 a right setup for a backup server
I am a programmer and doesn't have a knowledge on SAN. My boss asked me to get a quotation of SAN from a vendor.
The vendor suggest the following setup for our SAN:
File Server:DELL ...
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Dell PowerEdge 1950 sever give me SAS drive error while i am only using sata with it
As the subject stated that Dell PowerEdge 1950 sever give me SAS drive error while i am only using sata with it, then it give me option to press F1 to to continue........
Please tell me how i can ...
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Non-Default VLAN on Dell PowerConnect 6224 is Blocking All Traffic. Why?
So, I have two Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches (non-stacked). On both of the switches I've taken ports 8 and 9 and assigned them to VLAN 2. The other ends of those ports go to two Windows 2008 R2 ...
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How to see information about hard drives in Windows Server 2003 using Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller
I just found out one of my servers are reporting hard drive error but I'm having problems extracting the information I want.
I've downloaded Acronis Drive Monitor so I could see hard drive health and ...
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Restart issue with Auto AC recovery on Dell Optiplex 390 machines
I have two Dell Optiplex 390 desktops that has Windows 7 and CentoS 5 respectively. I want the desktops to reboot automatically in the event of a power failure. In order to do so, I changed the BIOS ...
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Dell PERC 4 (PowerEdge 2850): Unresolved configuration mismatch between disks(s) and NVRAM
We had an extended power outage (almost four hours); now I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server which is giving me this error (from a PERC 4e/DI) on boot up:
All drives are listed in the PERC ...
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OMSA killed DRAC
I used to be able to use both OMSA and DRAC at the same time on my PE1950. I've updated the OMSA recently and DRAC is not accessible right after starting "Systems Management Data Engine". Shutting ...
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Mean time between failures of a Dell R710
I need to find out the mean time between failures for a dell R710, specifically motherboard failure would be appreciated - I need this for a rough calculation of how often we will need to replace ...
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7.2K Near Line SAS with Large RAID Controller Cache vs 10/15K SAS
I'm working on an application to capture a lot (10 million +) of really small blocks of data (16 bytes) every day. The data is not sequential (i.e lots of seeking about to write) and it's not a ...
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Any high end server you can suggest me to purchase today? [closed]
Can anyone suggest any server based on your experiences? I am looking at Dell PowerEdge R710 right now.
We have this websites and applications going on right now on one box. I am thinking about ...
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DELL 6224 switch strange behaviour
I'm having a hard time with my DELL 6224 switch.
This switch is the center node of my network, trunking between other switches, VLANs and routing packets.
The network traffic that it's been handled ...
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Default username and password on a brand new Dell CMC Blade management chassis
We've just got a brand new Dell M1000e blade chassis ^.^ (Squee!).
We've no idea what the username/login for the Dell CMC manager is.
Anyone know? We've mountains of paper and docs from Dell, and ...
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Dell MD3000, MD1000 and 2950
I have a Dell 2950 with MD3000, MD1000 ; Suddenly the I have lost all drives on both of the enclosures and all drives on the MD3000/1000 are blinking, but only ONE Light on each disk, not 2 Lights.
I ...
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Dell PowerVault MD3200i dm-multipath configuration and performance snags in Debian 6.0 (squeeze)
I'll be using this iSCSI target for a couple of Debian-based KVM virtual machine hosts. Each of the target's redundant controllers has 4 ethernet ports; likewise for the initiators. I use two switches ...
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windows server 2003 “setup cannot copy the file oemsetup.inf”
I'm trying to install the SCSI drivers for a Dell server with a PERC 4e/si card in it. I can specify the driver via the F6 and load the driver with S procedure, but once I select the partition and ...
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What is the oem-dell-he-esxi module?
I'm attempting to use the vSphere Update Manager for the first time to do an ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 upgrade.
The server shipped with Dell's ESXi pre-installed, and when I attempt to do an upgrade to ...
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Save the Dell PowerEdge blue indicators
I'm staring at several racks of Dell Poweredge servers, which have behaved very well for us, but...
The blue power indicators (LCD backlight on newer machines) fade out over time.
I think I could ...
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Dell equivalent of Cisco Span
We are in the process of upgrading out network to Gigabit to the desktop.
Currently we are using this equipment...
CUCM (Cisco Unified Communication Manger 8.0.3.20000-2)
Cisco 2821 Integrated ...
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What are the risks of running a database on a server without ECC RAM? [closed]
A lot of branded servers come with ECC RAM, but it is expensive.
For a database server or other critical servers, what would be the impact of not using ECC RAM?
Data corruption? (I suppose the ...
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diagnose dell poweredge r210 II not booting with qlogic hba
Dell doesn't "officially" support QLogic HBAs in their cheaper servers like R210 or R310. They support it with R410 upwards.
But "official support" is a dubious concept anyway, at least for real men ...
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Dell Poweredge 1550 boot from USB or CDRom
I am trying to get a dell power edge 1550 to boot off cd or USB so I can install CentOs. I created a CD with a CentOs ISO on it but the system won't recognize it. Even when I set the settings to only ...
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Basic QoS policy for Dell 6248 switches
My cisco edge router tags all incoming packets as IP precedence 0, 3, and 5 depending on their priority. How can I add a matching QoS configuration on the switch so that packets are prioritized ...
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Dell PERC 4/DC (PowerEdge 2850) and ZFS
I understand that ZFS prefers to have as much data about the drives as possible, and that the best thing to do is turn off RAID.
The hardware environment is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with PERC 4/DC and ...
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Installing a Dell UPS Network Management Card
I have a network management card I need to install into our Dell UPS. Do I need to power-off the UPS first before installing the card, or can I just plug it in? The manual says it's as simple as ...
