Questions tagged [dell-poweredge]
PowerEdge is the name that Dell has given to its server product line.
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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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Disable hyperthreading from within Linux (no access to BIOS)
I have a system running a financial trading application at a remote facility. I do not have access to the ILO/DRAC, but need to disable hyperthreading. The system runs Intel Westmere 3.33GHz X5680 hex-...
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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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iDRAC login loop
I am trying to upgrade the iDRAC on my PowerEdge R710 but am unable to login to the Web Interface.
After I enter the admin login and password in the web UI, it thinks about it for a while, and ...
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Dell R730xd - Best way to configure storage for simultaneous use with ZFS & Hardware RAID
I recently purchased a Dell R730xd that came with an H730 RAID card. I would like to bring an existing 6 disk ZFS pool to this server as well as create an additional 6 disk hardware RAID.
Is it ...
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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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ZFS on enterprise RAID pass-through, and ZFS on FreeBSD root
We've been running ZFS on top of a single hardware RAID on dell poweredge for years. I know most people are against this, but the snapshot/clone, compression and flexible partition of ZFS served us ...
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How To Get Notified When Hard Drives Fail In Dell PowerEdge Servers
I have a Dell PowerEdge R415 and R515 and wondering how I can be alerted remotely when a hard drive fails in either server? Both are running RAID, so I need to be notified, so I can swap out the drive....
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How do I migrate disks from one Dell PE 2850 to another?
I had a Dell PE 2850 die and I need to move its SCSI disks over to another PE 2850. These disks were in RAID1. I tried moving them over and just hoping the PERC would do the right thing, but it didn'...
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Unable to Boot After Cloning Windows Server Datacenter 2022 to a New SSD
I have a Dell R720 server running Windows Server Datacenter 2022, and the disk containing the operating system has bad tracks that spread over time.
To migrate the OS,
I used DiskGenius to clone all ...
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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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Dell OpenManage Web Interface Inaccessible
We've installed all the Dell server admin tools on our Ubuntu 12.04 Server box using the following command:
sudo apt-get install srvadmin-all
All the omreport commands etc work as expected but we ...
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Trouble Installing Windows Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge R720 w/ PERC H710 Mini
Just picked up a Dell PowerEdge R720. I created a virtual disk with the PERC H710 Mini BIOS Configuration Utility 4.03-0002 and configured it for RAID 1.
When I then go to try to install Windows ...
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R610 redundant power supply
We are installing Dell Poweredge R610 servers with redundant powersupply's:
High Output Power Supply Redundant, 717W
So each server has two power supplies.
I'm trying to figure out whether ...
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How to upgrade iDRAC firmware and BIOS of Dell PowerEdge R510?
I have a Dell PowerEdge R510 with iDRAC Enterprise:
System Model: PowerEdge R510
System Revision: II
Service Tag: 70BMGS1
Express Service Code: 15257000305
BIOS Version: 1.8.2
Firmware Version: 1....
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Dell PowerEdge R720xd stuck in BIOS [closed]
I have a Dell PowerEdge R720xd that gets stuck in the BIOS when booting. It successfully gets past the "configuring memory" and "configuring iDRAC" screens, but once it shows the "CPLD version : 103" ...
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Why wont my Dell server use IBM ram?
I stumbled upon four pieces of 4GB PC2 5300F RAM from IBM (Part Number 43X5061). In my Dell Poweredge 1950 Rev 2 server there currently are two 512MB sticks, which appear to have the same ...
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Max drive size for PERC H700 in Dell r610
I'm having a hard time understanding the spec. sheet. It says there is a max storage cap of 12TB for the entire system, but does not specify a disk size restriction.
Should I assume the HDD cap is ...
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Can I configure AC Power Restored option via iDRAC on a Dell PowerEdge server?
I'd like to configure the "AC Power Restored" option that's accessible in the BIOS, but I want to do it remotely, without having to shutdown the server and go into BIOS.
I've searched through the ...
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Updating Dell PowerEdge firmware on Ubuntu?
The company I work for recently got hands on a batch of second hand PowerEdge SC1425 machines. We'd like to put these to good use. Our operating system of choice is Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit, which ...
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What's the right RAID Controller for my Dell Server?
I don't quite understand the significance of differences between the various Dell RAID controllers for my scenario, it would be great if you guys could help me choosing the right one. I don't want to ...
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Swap entire disk set between Dell poweredge servers
I have a dell poweredge R610 which has 2 x 140 gb harddrives mirrored (hardware) running a high cpu intensive application in windows 2008 R2. We recentely purchased a new dell poweredge R610 which has ...
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SATA Drive Replacement on Dell PowerEdge R410
I just talked to our Dell rep about purchasing some PowerEdge R410s and R510s and he made a comment that the SATA drives are 'special' and can't be replaced by aftermarket drives because of some ...
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How can i change disks from foreign state using OMSA
I added 4 disks in the PowerEdge T610 on connector 1 but they are in the foreign state. I upgraded the firmware to version 6.3.3.0002. Still, I could not get the function to clear foreign state.
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How do I upgrade an ESXi installation with the Dell Customized ISO?
We have a Dell Poweredge server running ESXi 4.1 U1 that was installed using Dell's customized ESXi ISO. Now we would like to upgrade to 4.1 U2 and upgrade any Dell specific bits that were installed.
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Configuring vCenter alarm for loss of psu redudancy
Does anyone know if it's possible to configure a vCenter 5 alarm to monitor the loss of PSU redundancy of a host? I'm looking through the options to configure alarms and the Power State alarms on the ...
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Switch SATA disks in DELL PowerEdge R410
I need a 1U rackserver for hosting a website running on Windows Server and MS SQL. I plan to have a SSD drive for the system and SQL database and a large 1-2 TB standard SATA HDD for a lot of ...
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Removing RAID on a DELL power-edge server
We have a Dell Power-edge T110 server, with either a PERC S100 or S300 raid controller (I suspect S100), and 2 x 500GB SATA hard discs.
These discs are running in RAID-1 configuration, (either 1 or 2 ...
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Quieting down a Dell PowerEdge r710 [closed]
I run a Dell PowerEdge r710 server out of my house and I'm moving in with roommates in a couple weeks. Unfortunately I don't think they'll appreciate the ~70dBA it generates and I'm looking for ways ...
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Replacing a failed drive - RAID 1
I have a Dell PowerEdge r310, MS Server 2008, RAID 1 setup.
I had a two drives fail in the RAID 1 - leaving only one drive in a healthy state.
Picture of disk management:
I changed the primary boot ...
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How to configure SCSI hard drives and RAID for Poweredge 2850 web server
I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 2850 as a web server, but as a server novice it's causing me some confusion.
Its a virgin install so no data to be lost as yet, so I'd like to get the best ...
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Trouble Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Dell PowerEdge R220
I'm trying to install Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit for the first time in a Dell PowerEdge R220, using UEFI. At first the installation wouldn't see any disks. Then, I found this:
Trouble Installing ...
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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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Attempting to update iDRAC firmware with racadm, getting error "RAC923 : The file path is too long"
Per title, I'm attempting to update iDRAC on an R720 server running RHEL7.
I obtained the correct firwmare file by going to Dell's support site, entering my service tag, then filtering down to the ...
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Will a H310 Mini or a H200 support Samsung SSDs (840/850 Pros)?
I've been searching around and struggling to find out of a H310 Mini or a H200 will run Samsung 840/850 Pros.
I know Dell have their officially branded SSDs, but unfortunately cost is a major issue ...
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Fresh Debian Squeeze (6) Installation - Very High Ram Usage
We've got a new server provisioned, and are experiencing high ram usage, without information on the usage in either htop / top nor in a python memory script found (http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/...
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Reconfiguring RAID 1 Array after Replacing RAID Controller
I just replaced the RAID controller in a PowerEdge 1850 is their a way to recreate the RAID config from the old RAID controller without having to wipe the drives and rebuild the array from scratch?
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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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Dell R710 Mem ECC Warning: Memory sensor, transition to critical from less severe
I purchased a DELL R710 Server, and it consistently produces memory error warnings:
"Normal","Tue Jan 18 2011
03:46:33","System Board SEL: Event Log
sensor for System Board, log cleared
was ...
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Upgrade key not present?
I have a DELL PowerEdge R520. On boot, just after loading the RAID Controller, I get a weird message:
"Upgrade Key Missing!
An upgrade key was present on a previous power cycle, but it is not ...
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Remote RAID Control in ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 Using OpenManage
I was wondering how one can add a drive into an existing RAID array while ESXi is still running. I have read that you are able to use Dell OpenManage to do this. I have installed OMSA 7.0 on the ...
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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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`arp -a` refreshes its cache, but windows has no connection
I've got a DELL PE 1950 running Windows 2008 R2 Std. Few days ago I lost connectivity to the server (in a rack)
Troubleshooting at the console and the switch reveals seemingly good connection, but ...
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Dell H730 in HBA mode - Why are there issues with performance and SMART data? [duplicate]
I recently purchased a Dell R730xd that came with an H730 RAID card. I would like to bring an existing 6 disk ZFS pool to this server as well as create an additional 6 disk hardware RAID.
In my ...
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Dell PowerEdge T-620 - Choosing Memory Modes in the BIOS
I'm trying to configure the Memory Mode, in the BIOS, of a Dell PowerEdge T620 with dual processors:
Owner's Manual | Technical Guide
The system has 384GB of DDR3 LRDIMM Memory and I'm able to choose ...
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Bizarre file system errors, SBS2003
As a follow up to this question. I've been able to do further testing, and here is what I've found. I'm also working with Dell support on this, here is the email to them. This is not an actual file ...