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 to find out if my Dell R210 server has iDRAC with shared network connection or dedicated?
My server is Dell R210 and it is colocated. I need to find out whether the iDRAC BMC on this particular box has dedicated ethernet connector or is it shared.
Also - do I always need separate IP ...
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How IPMI works on Dell R210 server?
I have Dell R210 1U server (W2008R2 Enterprise).The box is currently in another country on colocation. I am thinking of moving it to another colocation.
I was told that if my box supports IPMI I ...
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Remote Power On and IPMI Poweredge 2950
I have a poweredge 2950 server with a drac card that supports ipmi that i have set to share the connection with one of the nics but has a separate ip address. It is running esxi as the os and I was ...
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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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PowerEdge 1800 1-3-2 beep fault
I had this fault arise, after checking the memory and as far as i can tell appears to be OK, I followed the Dell recommendation and replaced the main board, but the fault still appears? any help ...
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LSI Storage Manger for Windows PERC H700 Controller
I have a PERC H700 controller from Dell which appears to be a re-badged LSI 9260-16i raid card. I looked in the download link from LSI, but it only has the MegaRaid Storage Manager for Linux. MegaCLI ...
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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 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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Need the correct raid controller drivers for Dell poweredge t310 to use with winpe 3.0
I am trying to find the correct raid controller drivers for dell poweredge t310 with a perc h200 raid controller for a winpe 3.0 amd64 image. I have downloaded all the drivers from dell support and ...
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PowerEdge T110 II SAS and Windows 2003 32Bit
I'm planning on buying this server:
PowerEdge T110 II SAS, Intel Xeon Quad Core E3-1230 (3.20 GHz, 8M Cache, Turbo, 4T), Chipset Intel C202, 4GB Memory (2x2GB), 1333MHz UDIMM exp 16GB max, 2 x 300GB ...
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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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Moving RAID 1 disks between servers
I'm replacing a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server (PERC 6/i) with a new PowerEdge R510 (PERC H700). The existing system has its system on a pair disks in RAID1. My intention is to re-use these disks on the ...
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Where can I start to diagnose why I occasionally cannot connect to a server
I have a Dell Poweredge T310 with the default (free) NIC. I've got Ubuntu server 11.10 installed and I am running into a problem where at times I cannot connect to the server through any port. Whether ...
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two 1u servers or one 2u server [closed]
I was task to propose new servers.
Given a budget that I can purchase either two 1u servers or one 2u server, which one should I go for?
eg. 1u -> server Dell R310, 2u server -> Dell R710
Any pro ...
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Linking sub-domains to specific SANs
To most server managers, this may seem a very simple, and very stupid question! I'm not a server expert, but have been asked the question - not knowing the answer, I thought I'd improve my own ...
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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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Monitoring Dell/HP Servers Running ESXi (Free)
What are you all doing to monitor ESXi servers that run the free edition? With the lack of SNMP support, it seems fairly limited to me. What'd I'd like to be able to do is get some type of alert when ...
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Rackspace - typical power for a server
I'm trying to get some rackspace and buy an appropriate server. I've got a quote for 1/4 cabinet which includes 0.5kw of power. How do I know how much power my server will use...(e.g. I've looked on ...
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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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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 there a way to get 3TB drives to work with Perc 6/i? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Dell Perc 6/i and 3TB drives?
I see they're not officially supported: Dell Perc 6/i and 3TB drives?
(Unless something has changed.)
I'm wondering if there's a way to ...
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Slow SMB/CIFS to/from Win2008R2 Server
Dell R710 w/ Intel 82576 gigabit NIC (latest Intel drivers). I'm setting up a new Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 & so far I've installed updates & configured the File Services & Web Server ...
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w1228 romb batt < 24h
I just got this message on the front panel of one of our servers, a Dell PowerEdge 2900. I believe this means that the RAID controller card battery is nearly dead. The question that I have is what ...
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RAID / drive configuration for an intranet MongoDB server
I'm trying to get a handle on the best way to configure a Dell PowerEdge R410 for hosting a MongoDB-backed intranet application.
The R410 has 4 drive bays and a PERC 6/i controller.
RAID10 is the ...
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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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Dell R510 backplane/LSI RAID card
I've been tasked to price up and order a new server. My plans are for a Dell Poweredge R510 with the 8 HDD option, an LSI 9265-8i RAID card, two Dell 600GB 15k 3.5" SAS drives in RAID 1, and six Intel ...
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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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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 ...
