Dell, Inc. has been producing its PowerEdge line of server systems since 1996 and continues to produce them as of 2011. Dell has made PowerEdge servers in various form factors including freestanding, rack-mounted, and blade formats, using either Intel or, more recently, AMD processors. Questions ...
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How long can a PE 2850 last? [closed]
I just bought a used Dell PE 2850 for $200. I plan to use it for web hosting and/or VPS's.
It got some scratches on it and I assume it's been used for at least 2 years. How long can a PE 2850 last?
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Debian supported Dell Servers [closed]
I'm looking to buy a Dell server, I was ready to pick the Dell Poweredge 510, though I didn't find any resource saying that it supported Debian. One of my requirements is that Debian is supported, ...
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Dell T410 Memory Upgrade - mixing sizes
We have a Dell T410 server using 4x2GB RDIMMs for a total of 8GB.
I thought I would be able to replace 2 of those 2GB RDIMMs with 2x4GB RDIMMs to increase our total RAM from 8GB to 12GB.
However, I ...
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IPMI sdr entity 8 (memory module) only showing 3 records?
I've got two Dell PE R710's -
A has a single socket and 3 DIMMs in one bank
B has both sockets and 6 (2 banks @ 3 DIMMs) filled
The output from "ipmitool sdr entity 8" confuses me - according to ...
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Need to identify the ideal way to deploy SSL to blades/chassis
I have about 14 Dell M1000e chassis and corresponding 224 blades. I just received a wildcard SSL cert, but don't want to manually visit each administrative page to upload the cert/key. I understand ...
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Dell Poweredge 2950 RAM Upgrade
We're looking to upgrade our existing 2GB x 2 RAM by adding 4x4GB RAM. Will the server encounter some problem or inefficiency by having 2 slots with 2GB and 4 slots with 4GB? Is it recommended all ...
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Dell idrac 6 Express integrated configuration
I'm racking some new Dell 310 servers and noticed that the Dell idrac6 Express does not have its own dedicated ethernet port. From what I'm reading about configuring this, I can CTRL+E during POST to ...
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Anyone know how to fix issues with omsa on red hat 5.1 that reports “No Controllers found”?
I've got a Red Hat 5.1 server 64-bit Dell 2950 with a perc5/i controller that until recently was working fine.
On it I have an NRPE command check_openmange that started returning errors:
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Adding nearline SAS disks to a controller with SAS disks
I have a Dell Poweredge 840 server that currently has a pair of hot swappable 146Gb SAS disks attached to a SAS 5IR controller, configured as RAID 1.
I have two spare slots to add two add more ...
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unable to log into DRAC5, stuck at logging in please wait
Dell 2950 III, DRAC5
I was able to previously log into to the DRAC but probably haven't done so in a year or so. I have three of those servers and I am unable to log into any of them remotely. I ...
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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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wakeup on lan support
I am looking to setup WOL on a set of servers. These are Dell PowerEdge R210 servers running Centos 6.0. I searched the BIOS and I couldnt find the WOL option. My power management in BIOS has only
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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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Unknown issue, brings MySQL down and requires a full reboot of the server
Don't know if anyone may have any brainwaves with this one. We have a website that is quiet heavily used (delivers 4+ million pages a month). Runs on a Dell Poweredge server, and has run fine for ...
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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 linux on dell poweredge T 110 (perc s300)
We have a PERC S300 machine on which we want to install Ubuntu server (or in the worst case any linux distribution). Many web sites say that it is not possible to install linux on perc s300. However, ...
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Dell PE 2850 NIC cycling - can't install latest drivers
I've just installed W2K8 R2 SP1 on a Dell poweredge 2850. The network card isn't working correctly - keeps cycling through these states: identifying, enabling, network, network cable unplugged. The ...
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Installing W2K8 R2 on a Dell Poweredge 2850
I'm a server novice and have been given a Dell 2850 (PERC 4e/Di). It has 3 blank HDs that I think are configured as RAID 5. I am trying to install W2K8 R2 SP1 on it. It doesn't have a DVD reader so I ...
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R710 - DRAC Configuration IPv4
* Resolved by rolling back to DRAC6_FRMW_WIN_R279926.EXE *
Having an issue with a new R710 where I cannot enable IPv4 on the iDRAC card.
I have tried enabling IPv4 and setting static IP, Gateway ...
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Dell PowerEdge - Add new disk to an existing RAID 5 array
I have a Dell PowerEdge with a RAID 5 array of 3 disks, and I want to add a fourth disk to it to expand the capacity of the volume.
I don't want to reinitialize the whole RAID 5, because I want to ...
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PowerEdge 2800 Drops Off Network [closed]
I have a poweredge 2800 running Win Server 2008 r2. It drops off the network ~ every 24 hours. We have ruled out networking related issues and did make sure that the NICs dont fall asleep after a ...
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Dell Poweredge 2800 Power Consumption
I am considering buying a Dell Poweredge 2800 Tower 2nd hand, while I have some experience with HP's competing server brand, the ProLiant Series, I am struggling to find out the server's realistic ...
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Slow parity initialization of RAID-5 array on HP Smart Array P411 controller
On 29th October 2011, I built a RAID-5 array using 4 x 146.8GB Seagate SAS ST3146855SS drives running at 15k connected to a PowerEdge R515 with HP Smart Array P411 controller running Windows 2008 (so ...
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How to find IPMI devices?
I am trying to install Hardware Management as per instructions on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781099%28WS.10%29.aspx and am getting the error in step 4 "An IPMI device has been ...
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How to DISable display sleep on Dell PowerEdge R310
The display on these PowerEdge systems goes to sleep after some period of time. Normally, when you plug in a KVM, you have to press a key to "wake up" the display. I'm connecting these servers to a ...
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Dell PERC6/i - Converting from RAID 5 to RAID 6 - Possible?
I have a PowerEdge 2900 III with a PERC 6/i Controller. The PERC has 2 arrays, each one with 3 hard drives and each hard drive is the same size/speed (146GB 15K rpm SAS).
I would like to delete the ...
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Dell PERC 6/i configuration SAS/SATA
What limitations are there to the configuration of SAS/SATA drives on a PERC 6/i raid controller. Can I have 2 virtual disks - RAID 1 SAS and RAID 5 SATA, or the other way around? Does it matter that ...
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How many VMs can I run? [closed]
My setup up:
Dell PowerEdge M610 (6 Blades)
Three of these:
2 x Intel Xeon E5540
8 Physical cores
16 Logical cores
16 GB of RAM
Three of these:
1 x Intel Xeon E5640
4 Physical cores
8 Logical ...
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Network driver updated - linux still loading the old driver version
I recently updated the bnx2 network driver of one server. If I display infomations about the module, it shows me correctly the new version, 2.0.23b.
modinfo bnx2
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What speed are the internal drives in a PowerEdge R515
Not much obvious information on the net on this one - in fact, it was a surprise to me that the 12-bay R515 even had internal 2.5" cabled drives.
We're considering sticking in a couple of high-speed ...
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Dell PowerEdge t710 raid configuration for newbie
My company bought a Dell PowerEdge t710 server with:
48 GB ram 4x4
GB ethernet ports.
RAID 5 for PERC H700
4 x 1TB, SATA, 3.5-in, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive (Hot Plug)
My job is to configure Hyper-V ...
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Server went to sleep mode
I've setup a new Dell Poweredge R410 server with debian squeeze. If the server is idle for a longer time it seems to go to sleep mode. If I ping the server, it doesn't answer for 10-20 seconds and ...
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Dell PowerEdge t710 virtualization suggestions
My company just bought a dell PowerEdge t710 server with 48 gig ram 4tb disk 4x4 gb ethernet ports. My job is to configure virtual (hyperV) system infrastructure on this server.
The requirements are:
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1 TB SATA HDD on a Dell Poweredge sc1420?
Can anyone tell me if I can use an standard 1 TB SATA HDD on a Dell Poweredge SC1420?
Let's say this one: http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=61389&CatId=2459
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dell PE 2950 inexplicable performance issues
I recently acquired 2 PE 2950s. They are identically configured, matching cards and firmware. The drive are also configured the same, seagate 15k 300gig in raid 10. writeback and adaptive readahead, ...
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what difference do different NICs make?
I am in the process of buying a dell server hosting a database and a web application and a low volume website.
I am wondering what differences do the NICs make? Dell is quoting me with a Broadcom ...
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Dell Poweredge Disk Issue
System will boot with no errors, but will only get so far into Windows (safe mode, normal) before it locks up (but still accepts mouse input).
Tried a live disk to boot from, and I can copy just ...
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Centos 5.6 NFS client hangs on file/dir operation on mount, but 10+ other clients (same machine builds) all fine?
I've got an NFS server which is happily serving out files to 10 NFS clients (and has been doing so for 18 months+). I recently noticed that one of the clients has stopped working correctly, NFS ...
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ESXi 5.0 not showing RAID Health status (DELL PERC H200)
Hi we have installed VmWare ESXi 5.0 on brand new Dell T410 II.
Hypervisor sees storage but we are somehow missing the Health status in VI client.
We have PERC H200 in RAID 1.
We shortly tried the ...
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PowerEdge 2950 hard disk
I am currently trying to determine whether there are any bigger hard drives available for the PowerEdge 2950 (greater than 1TB). Using our tag and Dell's side and google I could only establish a ...
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Can I configure a RAID 1 on the Dell Poweredge 860 with the onboard SATA Controller
Is there a way to set up a RAID 1 with two SATA HDD on a DELL Poweredge 860 that has no specific RAID Controller? I want to use the on board SATA controller to set up my RAID 1.
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dell poweredge pcie training error, what to do?
After telling the server to reboot, it is now displaying an “PCle training error: Internal Storage Slot” Then the next line was “System Halted!”. It will not boot.
Recently a failed scsi hot swap ...
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Perc 4 Configuration - Drives not showing up
Hello I am trying to configure raid on a PERC 4 running in a PowerEdge 1850. When I go into the bios configuration for the raid controller the drives I have attached are not present. Specifically ...
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HP ProLiant ML370 G6 vs Dell Poweredge T710 [closed]
I'm looking of replacing our old ML350 G5 tower server which is used as a development system (so it's not constantly powered on and sits besides my desk). Noise levels from the old ML350 G5 were ok, ...
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What is the easiest way to run a boot level surface scan?
I have a PowerEdge 1850 running two SCSI Ultra 320 drives (10k 73gb). I am looking for recommendations on boot disks / methods to run a boot time surface scan. I would like to do this at boot time ...
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heatsink holder on motherboard cracked [closed]
I have an old Dell Poweredge 830 server. I just moved about 250 miles, and in that process broke something in the server.
After some issues with the CPU fan not slowing down I realized that one of ...
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Disable PCIe device on Dell R610
I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 system sitting in a co-location facility. It has four onboard NICs and a 2-port PCIe NIC in one of the slots. I'm usually working with HP servers, so I have the ability to ...
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Dell PowerEdge 860 won't boot but gets power
I have a Dell PowerEdge 860. Got an 2008 R2 running on it.
Here is the scenario I'm currently in:
I can boot it up and work as usuall.
But when I restart it, it just shuts down, doesn't reboot, and ...
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Non Dell memory in a PowerEdge 1850
Would it be acceptable to install compatible RAM from a non Dell manufacturer? Specifically I am wondering if it is OK to install HP PC2-5300P ECC memory into a PowerEdge 1850? The part number for ...
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VMware installation error on Dell PE R715
We have just purchased 2 x Dell Power Edge R715 with the PERC H700 raid contoller, each machine has 6 x 300GB SAS drives.
I have set 2 drives up in raid 0 and 4 drives in raid 10 on each machine, but ...
