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Dell is a manufacturer of computer and networking equipment, for both SOHO and enterprise usage. In addition, Dell also offers consulting services. This is a generic tag to be used when no more specific tags are available.

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Dell Blade DRAC remote: Unable to connect to RAC

I'm attempting to remotely administer a set of Dell blade servers: PE M600 and M605 with iDRAC5. On my Windows 8.1 laptop I installed DRAC Tools v7.3. I can successfully remotely manage the M1000e ...
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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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Server 2012 R2 - Hangs at shut down or restart

We have an odd situation with some of our servers where they don't appear to be able to shut down or restart without having to hard power them off manually. At first I assumed it was just a one-time ...
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MPIO on Win Server 2k16 w/ EMC Unity

I have two Dell R630's running Windows Server 2016, slated to be Hyper-V hosts but not yet clustered, attached to an EMC Unity array via fibre channel through a pair of Brocade 300 SAN switches. The ...
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Dell switches, LAG config, ports stay lit when device powered off

I have two Dell switches configured in a stack (with stacking cables). I have four ports on each unit in the stack configured in two separate LAGs as follows: Unit 1/P1: LAG1 Unit 1/P2: LAG1 Unit 1/...
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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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VCenter Adding Host - Error "conflicts with an existing datastore in the datacenter that has the same URL"

We have a new Dell VRTX box (2 Blades & Shared Storage). We are getting the above error when trying to add the second host. We've created shared storage(VDISK1) which both ESX hosts have access. ...
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Dell R900 memory bank mismatch

We've got two Dell R900 servers deployed in a well known managed hosting provider in the US. One of the Dell R900 servers has had its 128 GB memory (32x 4 GB) swapped out 6 times now. Every time the ...
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Recovering data from a Dell MD3220 array after both controllers have databases that were corrupt

I have been working on trying to restore data from an array created on a Dell MD3220 PowerVault storage unit. On the phone with Dell and another support group for weeks now and running into brick ...
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E-mail reporting issue for RAID on DELL servers

On the server of one of our clients, we have a problem with the implementation of email reporting for RAID in the DELL server. I know that if such a server has an iDRAC port, such reporting can be ...
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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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Supermicro server hangs on boot with disks in HBA

I have a "homemade" Supermicro server with an X9D board in an 836 chassis that has two SSDs with freenas installed. It has a pass-through backplane, with 4 SATA HDDs running via the Intel C606 ...
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Can the Dell Repository Manager be used to deploy updates remotely?

We have Dell DRM (not to be confused with digital rights management) installed in a VM that our production servers can reach. We have used DRM to download a catalog and the required update binaries ( ...
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How can I add a single SAS drive to a Perc H700 on Dell R310 server WITHOUT loosing the data on it?

On a Dell R310 server with Perc H700 RAID controller. I have 1 virtual disk configured as Raid 1 but with only 1 physical SAS disk attached and the other missing. This virtual disk has been ...
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Configuring a DELL storage array with both controllers set to the same address

I've gotten hold of a used Dell PowerVault MD1000 with two MD3000i (aka AMP01) controllers, both of which are configured to the same address. However my attempts to configure them - or indeed perform ...
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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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Dell X4012 copper options?

I've been using the Dell X4012 12x 10GbE switches with fibre and DAC cabling in several of our locations for a year now, and their lack of SFP+ ID checking made them easy to integrate. However, now I ...
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Replace faulty drives in a Dell T420

I have a poweredge T420 with two "Predictive failure" disks. Configuration is RAID-5. I'm hoping to hot-swap the disks 1 by 1 by after marking each drive as failed. In order to see the rebuild ...
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T110 - Raid 1 - Rebuilding remains at 0% after switching from 1 hd

Dell T 100 Server PERC S 100 Controller Raid 1 with 2 Hds Physical Disks   ID 0: 0 Status OK Name Physical Disk 0: 0 State Online Bus Protocol SATA Media HDD Revision 02.03B05 Failure Predicted No ...
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Dell Data Collector Manager not showing Storage Center

In one of our environments, Dell Enterprise Manager Data Collector doesn't seem to connect to my Storage Centre. The logs shows that "Storage Centre Controller Cannot connect to the configured ...
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Recognizing Dell EquilLogic with Nagios

EDIT: All firmware and models are compatible, that is why nothing is posted about it. Okay, so there will be a lot here, so please bear with me. I've been working on this now for a few hours (reading ...
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Xen Dom0 could not find boot device (or any disk)

I have a brand new DELL server running SLES11 SP1 where I am trying to install my very first Xen Hypervisor. So I installed "Hypervisor and Tools" via YaST (excluding graphical elements), which ...
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Listing all WMI classes with winrm/wsman

Is there a way to pull all WMI information from a system with a single winrm command? I can run commands such as winrm enum wmicimv2/win32_computersystem, which will give me information like: ...
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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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Dell PowerConnect SNMP stack member monitoring

I am looking to monitor a stack of Dell PowerConnect 6248p switches via SNMP. There is a stack of 3 switches that I want to monitor. Due to the stack being 1 logical unit it only has 1 IP, so when ...
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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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Q-BRIDGE-MIB representation of ports on Dell PowerConnect 6248

I have a Dell PowerEdge 6248 with a 2x10Gb uplink module. I'm trying to make sense of the representation of the ports from the following snmp output: Q-BRIDGE-MIB::dot1qVlanStaticUntaggedPorts.4081 = ...
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Batch Query Dell Service Tags for System Configs

Not sure if any of the smart folks in this thread Batch Query Dell Service Tags are still around but I have a very similar problem: I need to query the Dell Support website to gather original system ...
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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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Dell OpenManage Causing Periodic Slowness

Today we diagnosed the cause of a Periodic slowness issue: see here. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator seems to have been causing hourly slowness. It would occasionally peg one of the CPUs for ...
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Dell PVT-132T Tape Drive Install Assistance

OS: Windows 2012 R2 all current updates are installed. Server: Dell R710 I have an ancient Dell PVT-132T Tape Library. In the Device Manager I see the Medium Changer Device but missing the Tape Drive ...
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Multiple drives fail in Dell R730xd when partitioned

I have a used (new to me) Dell R730xd running 2 virtual disks. The first consists of 2x 600GB drives in RAID 1 and the second consists of 10x 6TB drives in RAID 10. The first virtual drive works fine ...
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Is it possible to disable and re-enable on-board PCI devices in Linux?

So as the title suggests, Is there a way I can disable and re-enable PCI devices or on-board devices on Linux using Terminal like the disable and enable device functions in Windows' Device Manager. I ...
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RAIDCORE Configuration SCSI Processor Device - Driver - After Instalation - DELL T150

I have purchased a DELL PowerEdge T150 server. During the installation of Windows (Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard, Version: 10.0.20348 Build 20348), Installer did not see a matrix with disks. ...
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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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10gig link transfer speed slow between dell chassis m1000e blades

I have a dell chassis m1000e. All blades are connected internally with Dellm8024 10gbit switch. I've SSD on blades. However, when i am testing the speed between the blades the maximum speed size is ...
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Dell server - Redfish power metrics

Im having a hard time with a single Dell r620 server, which is acting a bit weird when it comes to the redfish api. We have 10+ of the exact same r620, with same configuration, same bios/idrac/...
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PowerEdge R440 Mixed Memory configuration

I have one Dell PowerEdge R440 The server has 12 DIMM: 32GB 2Rx4PC4-266V-RB2-12(HMA84GR7JJR4N-VK) [A6]-[A5]-[A10]-[A4]-[A9]---CPU0---[A7]-[A1]-[A8]-[A2]-[A3] 32Gb 32Gb 32Gb ...
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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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When was new hardware added Centos 7

On Centos 7, is there a way to find out when was a new hardware added? My vendor says they added a new nic card on our Dell servers but now I am not sure which ones were done. Hope there is some log ...
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ESXI 6.7 Dell Poweredege SNMP

Is there a possibility to monitor a DELL R640 via SNMPGET? Installed VMWARE ESXI 6.7 DELL Customized. On my Debian Machine snmpwalk -O fn -m ALL -c public -v 2c ipaddress .1.3.6.1.4.1.674 but I ...
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Mount the Vplex Virtual Volume ( LUN ) Xen Server

Hello ServerFault members, Please help me with this issue. I am in very strange situation with my Xenserver environment. I am trying to mount the Dell EmC ( Vplex LUN ) to the Xen server HA and when ...
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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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Equillogic group manager java error. ExitException: Your security settings have blocked

I want to start our equillogic group manager application to manage our storage. the problem is that when i start it, I get the error: ExitException: Your security settings have blocked an application ...
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Disabling JBOD mode from command line for LSI (Dell H330)

I'm unable to disable JBOD mode on H330 (dell): I've tried: megacli -AdpSetProp -EnableJBOD -0 -a0 Adapter 0: Failed to Set Adapter Properties. megacli -CfgClr -a0 Adapter 0: Failed to Clear ...
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Dell Motherboard failures - condensation?

Since April 2018 I've had multiple motherboard failure on my Dell servers (at least 12). We've operated dell servers in this location for over 20 years without a problem. Since April however its been ...
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Weird networking behavior with a gateway between a switch and CMC module, on Dell VRTX equipment. Am I doing something wrong?

Network Diagram: Here's the simplest way I know how to explain how the internal networking of this Dell VRTX works. So, you have your 4 blades and your network switch module that have integrated ...
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Powervault: MD1200 EMMs in an MD3200 enclosure?

I have two MD1200 EMMs (Dell part #3DJRJ). Can I use them in an MD3200 enclosure (which is available at an economical price than an MD1200 enclosure). If it would work, would I lose any functionality?...
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