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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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Boot issue with Debian Stretch 9.4 (amd64) on Dell R710

I'm hoping someone has seen this and can assist. This is more of an annoyance than a true issue. I have a Dell R710 stacked with Debian 9.4 (amd64). The physical unit has the following ...
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Rebuilding VHD RAID array

We have a Dell PowerEdge R420 with a PERC H710 mini RAID controller card. The server has six physical disks split over two arrays; one RAID-1 array for the OS and one RAID-10 array for the data. This ...
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Poweredge 2850 linux USB boot

I've made a bootable usb for Centos 6.5 OS by downloading the minimal.iso and dd'ing it unto my usb. I've configured the Bios to boot from said usb, and it seems to do that. However: I've been ...
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Dell R710 LifeCycle and iDRAC6 bad firmware flash

I have an R710 server that I need help with. Earlier today I wanted to update my BIOS and LifeCycle controller. I tried through the F10 System manager, but because my LifeCycle controller and iDRAC ...
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ESXi build with SSD's and storage sharing with HDD

So the plan is to convert 4 boxed servers into all virtual servers with a new server. The 4 servers now don't require much horsepower to do much, so only looking at the Xeon E5-2470 (8C, 2.4ghz, iirc) ...
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Replace healthy drive in RAID 10 on PERC H730

I have a PowerEdge T630 of a few years with a hardware RAID 10 consisting of 4 1TB disks. Now I need to extend the storage, so I have ordered 4 additional 1 TB disks which i planned to add in a new ...
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Dell SNMP enterprise MIB returns no data - PowerEdge R720xd

I have a Ubuntu Dell server that returns no SNMP Data for MIB SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises. Has anyone have any idea on how to troubleshoot this? I've spent quite a time and yet haven't fixed. I've ...
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How to find Dell firmware versions through powershell

Looks like my newer servers are immune to this: #Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\CIMV2\Dell -Class Dell_CMApplication -Filter "componentType = 'FRMW'" -ComputerName "localhost" | Select name,version ...
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Manually executing option roms (PCIe SATA storage card)

I have an older Dell server, a Poweredge 2900 II, and I would like to use it with large HDDs (> 8 TB). For this, an expansion card is needed, since the motherboard nor the PERC RAID controller can ...
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dell c6220 ACPI power soft-off

On a Dell C6220 server with 4 nodes it occurs from time to time that all 4 nodes are powered off. It seems to happen when there is a slight power fluctuation (despite there being an UPS on both power ...
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Unable to connect to iDrac8 over SSH

We are running Dell PowerEdge M630 servers. I have a few updates I need to make on the iDracs but I am unable to make a connection to ssh server. The server is running Integrated Dell Remote Access ...
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New Dell Perc 5/i battery shows as failed after installation

PROBLEM I am running into an issue where I Replaced the PERC 5/i RAID Controller battery of my Dell 2950 Rack server twice and in both instances the Server Administrator reports the battery as failed....
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Upgrade SATA drive on Dell Poweredge 1950, RAID 1, Ubuntu server

My current set up is a Dell PowerEdge 1950, two 250GB SATA drives, RAID 1, OS is Ubuntu server. Using it for running OTRS (open source help desk). I'd like to upgrade the drives to the maximum ...
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Drives not shown on a Dell r410 server

I have just bought a Dell R410 server, without doing research first. It seems that with the current RAID controller (perc s300) I can't install a GNU/Linux system. It supports only Windows. After ...
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"Unable to retrieve BIOS information"

While trying to update the BIOS' of PowerEdge 2950s to 2.6.5 from 2.2.6, I got this message, "Unable to retrieve BIOS information." These are remote servers so updating via boot-disk isn't feasible. ...
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How to recover data on replaced RAID 1 virtual drive, PERC 710 controller

Today I created a new RAID 0 virtual drive using the RAID setup wizard of my lifecycle controller for my two new 4TB SAS dell hardrives. Unfortunately, I misread the warning saying that creating this ...
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T110 Perc S100 raid disk is not visible for OS setup, drivers are not found

Ok, so after a lot of research I have reached a dead-end. I'm having problems installing Win 2008 R2 64x OS on a Dell PowerEdge T110 II server with PERC S100 controller. I've created a RAID1 ...
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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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FreeBSD 13.2 install (boot) issues on a DELL PE R430 server hardware

I am a newbie FreeBSD user and I would like to install FreeBSD 13.2 on a DELL PowerEdge R430 server hardware. After downloading and booting from a bootable USB stick made from image "FreeBSD-13.2-...
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Amber light on Powervault md3060e

While doing maintenance on another server I noticed an amber light on one draw of a Powervault md3060e (linked to a Poweredge r720d). There is no amber light for the drives of the draw. Every drives ...
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iDRAC not working at all

I have a Dell PowerEdge R620, and I figured it could use a firmware update. I updated the BIOS (to version 2.9.0) without any problems, and then I booted off of the platform-specific ISO (version 21....
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iperf3 showing packetloss between 2 directly connected servers

I have 2 Dell PowerEdge-R620 servers with following configuration Processor: 2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v2 @ 3.50GHz RAM: 64GB Storage: 10 SAS drives (10K RPM) with RAID 10. NIC: QUAD Ports 2 X ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a Dell R210 with S100 raid controller

I recently picked up a Dell PowerEdge R210 II and would like to install Ubuntu on it. I am getting an error when going through the install process. It seems to hang on "removing previous storage ...
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Dell Power Edge R940 RAID Failure: the foreign configuration cannot be imported since the configuration is not complete

Dell Power Edge R940 RAID 5 Array BIOS version 2.3.10 PERC H740P Adapter Some of our guys pulled of all of our disks, one by one from the server while it`s worked, to rewrite theirs serial numbers. ...
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Linux install on PowerEdge 2950 hangs with Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok

First off, this is not an issue with EDD, but what ever comes next. If I include edd=off it just hangs without displaying anything after GRUB. I've attempted to install current versions of Arch, ...
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Setup/configure MPIO in Windows Server 2016 with H810s and MD1200

I'm having a difficult time finding info out on the google for this one I have a Dell R710 with 2 PERC H810s in it running Windows Server 2016. I also have a MD1200 filled up with 3TB disks ...
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Trying to assign static IP address, subnet, gateway and vlan id for esxi host through racadm

I am trying to prepare a script to assign Static IPv4 address for host. Usually I will take iDRAC console and I will update IP, subnet, GW and VLAN ID. But I have around 2500+ servers going forward to ...
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Replace H330 with H730 controller in Dell T130 server

We carelessly sold a Dell T130 server with a H330 controller to a customer who wanted an as cheap as possible soultion. Due to performace issues he is asking now to replace the H330 controller with ...
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Windows Server 2016 installation hangs on new SSD

I hope Server Fault is the right place to ask, move to Super User if that is more appropriate. I am trying to do what I thought would be a simple upgrade of Windows Server 2012 to 2016 with a new SSD ...
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Exporting and importing Dell iDRAC 9 configurations

I would like to get configuration from Dell iDRAC 9 and save it somewhere. So that new similar hardware can be configured remotely and automatically. I was able to get some configurations via racadm....
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Bringing alive a I350 Gigabit network connection for Dell PowerEdge on Ubuntu using iDRAC

[Resolved]: The network cable had been connected to the integrated NIC physical interface, which although accessible, was no longer enabled. The problem was solved by connecting the cable to the ...
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Windows 2008 server installation asks for Hard Drive Drivers in Dell Power edge sc1420

We are having blue screen from windows 2008 server, even with Safe Mode, so we are trying to repair the OS, but it keeps asking for HD Drivers, we have a Maxtor 6L160M0 (Pretty old, I know) and we are ...
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Local File Copy Incredibly Slow

I have 15 Server 2008 R2 servers. On 2 of them, copying files locally is incredibly slow. I need to make copies of a 2GB folder which has 8000 files in it. On 13 servers, a simple xcopy command has ...
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Dell PowerEdge T300, Perc 5i RAID 10 Data Transfer Issue

I have a Dell PowerEdge with a Perc 5i running 4x SAS 2TB Disk in one RAID 10 partition and 4x SATA Disks also RAID 10. The card has a battery backup and all drives are reporting correctly in MegaRaid ...
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Dell PowerEdge R710 with 6 450GB SAS Drives Only sees 5?

I have this weird issue that I've been trying to figure out but been stuck for a week.. Issue Summary below: 6 BRAND NEW SAS Cheetah drives 450gb on Poweredge R710. Configured Raid 10 with result of ...
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Ubuntu reduce/increase the number of cores used on a per demand base

I would like to ask for best practices how to manage on demand base the number of cores in use of a Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen II running Ubuntu 16.04 lts. The PowerEdge 1950 has two quad core Intel ...
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RHEL 7 allocate physical cores and rams for users

Dears, Back at work we have Dell blade server with 64 physical cores, and we intend to use heavy simulations on softwares by multiple users. My question: Is there a way to assign certain number of ...
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Ethernet cables along with power cords in Dell Cable Management Arm

Recently I read that placing together Ethernet cables and power cords is not a good thing (many sites and good-practice articles says that). For example: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-...
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Dell OpenManage web interface fails to start, service returns syntax error

I've installed Dell's Ubuntu OpenManage 7.4.0 package on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. However, I cannot get the web interface to start. All other tools work as expected, including ...
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Ubuntu 16.04, Dell R320 & preseed install via "The Foreman"

After lots of trial & error I've finally given up on the "SATA RAID" the R320 provides, and resorted to using AHCI mode. Partitioning/Provisioning work fine, but on the next boot the machine ...
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Creating a 2nd virtual disk with PERC H700

I currently have just 1 virtual disk set up with raid 0 for my OS, and would like to create a 2nd virtual disk for just storage. Will I have any data loss/issues with the existing virtual disk by ...
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Kernel panic on Dell R710 Kernel 4.4.1

We are running Debian 7.9 server with kernel 4.4.1 on Dell R710 (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz) and after some time (maybe once a month) server stop working and I see on a screen the kernel ...
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Is a PERC310 Mini compatible with an R610?

I'm going to purchase an R610 soon which is sans RAID card. The spec sheet lists 2x PCIe x8 + 1 "storage x4" slot. However none of the X10 series cards are listed on the spec sheet. I presume that's ...
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Can you have an MBR partition and a GPT partition on the same RAID 5 VHD in Windows Server 2008 R2?

I have a Power Edge T610 with a PERC 6 RAID 5 Array, recently i posted a question about expanding the array with other drives and was able to use OMSA to add additional drives to the array and then ...
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How do I troubleshoot slow NIC on R610 Dell?

I recently set up 2 new R610 servers that I purchased. Summary: Both servers 100% same hardware Both installed with Centos 6.7 64bit Tested multiple switch ports, same slowness issue. Both same full ...
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Unable to see drives using PERC H310 in IT mode with PowerEdge R710

I flashed IT firmware to the PERC H310. I tried with the FW by DELL and LSI (version 20) and both of them didn't work. It looks like the controller is able to see the drives connected directly but ...
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Detect network hardware causes iDRAC to disconnect

I have a Dell Poweredge R610 server which is connected to a 10.0.0.0/29 network. This server has iDRAC enterprise and the NIC selection set to shared with static IP address 10.0.0.6. I'm trying to ...
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Dell PowerEdge T410 - How do I build additional 3 drive Raid 5 and keep SBS 2011 running?

Dell PowerEdge T410 / Dell PERC 6/i 3 x 1TB SATA in Raid 5 array split as 2 drives (Drive 0  C: 128GB E:1847GB) (Drive 1  D: 20GB) Currently running SBS 2011 Standard. I would just ...
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NUMA - all CPU's bound to node 0

I am running Dell PE 815 servers with two 16-core Opteron's, with four memory modules on each, OS - RHEL6, when I've started optimizing it for NUMA operation, found, that all cores are shown as bound ...
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