R710 with H700
Hello,The idea is to upgrade from originally provided 4x SAS to 6x SAS.I would like to know, is it possible to use DELL PowerEdge R710 6x 3.5“ SAS/SATA Backplane 0W814D / W814D instead of original 4x...
View ArticleT420 IDSDM keeps losing redundancy
I recently added a IDSDM module to a T420 server and installed FreeNAS onto the SD drive after building a redundant set. Initially both SD cards "failed" at the same time after a few hours of running....
View Articlelogin failed with an access denied error idrac 8
I am attempting to get into iDRAC 8 virtual console but I am receiving the following error, "login failed with an access denied error."This seems to have happened shortly after applying a firmware...
View Article"Cross Platform" parts between PE R610 and R710
I have a PowerEdge R610 and a PowerEdge R710 and my problem is that my R610's Internal SD slot has broken and I was wondering if I could use the R710 Internal SD card slot to replace the R610
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R630 PXE dpeloyment of Windows 2008R2 - ERROR - percsas3 - Driver package is...
Hi community,for the past few weeks I have battling percsas3 issues on my PXE deploying for my first R630 with Windows 2008R2 OS. Our deployment environment is based on WINPE 5.1 with heavily...
View ArticleR710 memory expansion problems
Have an R710 w/ 12x 2GB ECC Samsung RAM (M391B5673FH0 - 2GB 2Rx8 PC3 10600E 09 10 E1) installed in A/B 1/4/2/5/3/6 - 24GB totalRecently acquired another 12GB (6x Hynix HMT125U7TFR8C 2GB 2Rx8 PC3 10600E...
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PERC 6/i, raid 1, both drives foreign state
Dell PowerEdge 2900 with Dell PERC 6/I. The server has 2 hard drives configured raid 1. As of yesterday, both drives are showing a 'Foreign' state. One drive shows online and one drive shows...
View ArticlePoweredge t130 optical drive blank
My T130 came with an optical drive. I do not need or wish for an optical drive in my server. I can remove it but I end up with a hole. Does Dell sell a drive blank? Any other options for filling that...
View ArticleI have installed an idrac in a r710. i can log into it. It is running version...
It does not have the update tab when I log into it. How can I get it up to the most current version.
View ArticlePoweredge R420 iRDAC initialization error SWC0700
version: idrac7 Expresstwo days ago Server worked normally ... Powered off and on.and entered in "idrac not ready" state, lcd also not lit.Probed - all without good result:- taking off power cords ......
View ArticleIntegrated Intel GPU on R330 server
Hi,After receiving of ordered R330 server with E3-1225v5 CPU with integrated graphic intel HD P530, it was found that the integrated GPU is disabled. To run specifiс software product on this server it...
View ArticlePowerEdge C6220 automatic S5/G2: soft-off for a whole rack of nodes
I have a rack of 5 C6220 nodes which for the last couple of weeks have all been turning off for no apparent reason. The BMC logs are not very descriptive as the S5/G2 message is the only message that...
View ArticleT310 S300 RAID 10 Failure Degraded
Greetings,I have a client that has a T310 with S300 controller.There are 4 X 500GB Disks in RAID 10 setupThe client as alerted me that the server displays an error on reboot.1---RAID1,465GB, Degraded...
View Articlelogin failed with an access denied error idrac 8
I am attempting to get into iDRAC 8 virtual console but I am receiving the following error, "login failed with an access denied error."This seems to have happened shortly after applying a firmware...
View ArticlePERC H730 Upgrade in R730 Question
Hi All,We ordered an R730 server with 5 disks with the view to running VMware on it. I forgot to spec in the PERC H730 RAID Controller, so it came with OS only RAID. As we are running VMware, I could...
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PERC 6/i, raid 1, both drives foreign state
Dell PowerEdge 2900 with Dell PERC 6/I. The server has 2 hard drives configured raid 1. As of yesterday, both drives are showing a 'Foreign' state. One drive shows online and one drive shows...
View ArticleDell Poweredge r210 II ongoing disk activity after power-on (even when server...
Hello,I have the above mentioned server with hasrware details as written in: the threadhttp://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/956/p/20005093/20979721/When I power-on the server and let...
View ArticleServer 2012 can't see sas drive to install to.
Hi all,I'm having a big issue i can't seem to find many details on, I've just bought a server it's a Dell Poweredge 1950 iii twin xeon L5420 with 16GB ram i've got a single 73GB sas drive and trying to...
View ArticlePowerEdge T130 - Error Loading Bios - Please Help
Hi thereI just bought a Dell Poweredge T130. I used it for a day, basically using Windows Server 2012.Last night, after watching some videos, I had the brilliant idea to update Bios.Using "Dell...
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R720 with H710P CacheCade Question
Trying to redesign my server to maximize database performance. I've not used cachecade before and thought I'd give it a whirl in my server to see if it helps database performance. It's hard to get a...
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