Dell UPS 2700W Service Battery warning
Yesterday one of our Dell UPS 2700W sounded an alarm and the error log reports it as Alarm 149. According to the manual here is the description:"A faulted battery string hasbeen detected and as a...
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С6220 bios
We have the spare motherboard for a del C6220 II. It has bios version 3.1.10, but the latest is 2.5.3 on the official cite. All other mb in our server have 2.5.3. We tried downgrade 3.1.10 to 2.5.3....
View ArticleiDRAC 8 Remote presence port cipher issues
We recently purchase a R930 with iDRAC 8. We are running the latest available update from the download page for the device (2.41.40.40). We have set the web page up to use TLSv1.2 only with a minimum...
View ArticlePowerEdge VRTX and M620 blade
Hello all, I purchased a used VRTX chassis on eBay and seem to be having a ton of issues with it.I first found out that the chassis midplane had grounded out and scorched the back of the blower cage as...
View ArticleT310 PERC S100 RAID-5 showing wrong capacity/size after HDD replacement
Hello.Today I replaced a failed HDD, in a RAID-5 array, with a new HDD.As far as I can tell, everything is working fine. The new HDD has been assigned to the array and it is in the process of being...
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Lifecycle controller FTP Firmware update failing
When I attempt to update the firmware via Licecycle ctonroller FTP option to simply the default of 'ftp.dell.com' all I get is "Connecting to FTP server to download the catalog" for about 5 minutes and...
View ArticleiDRAC6 Console connection error tried everything
So i have been browsing around google and the Dell forums to find a solution to this but i am close to returning the server.I have a Dell r710 with 24GB of RAM, 2 Quad 2.27GHz processors, the BIOS and...
View ArticleClearing Critical VRTX Chassis Alerts
When I sign into the VRTX CMC GUI for a particular system, there are two Critical Alerts on the Chassis Overview > Properties > Health page (which is the default homepage). The lights on the...
View ArticleHDD Replacement for PowerEdge T620
Hello.I currently have a Dell PowerEdge T620.It has 4 6Gbps 600GB 15K SAS drives.On the Dell site it lists the 12Gbps drive as compatible with the system but the 6Gbps as compatible with the T630 and...
View ArticleNew: E1000 Failsafe voltage error. Contact support.
Hi in running diagnostics on a purchasing a refurbished R610 server, I plugged in a SAS 6ir which worked fine in the server before it, I plugged in the SAS drives and booted. I selected the System...
View ArticleDell VMWare ESXi 6.X for Dell poweredge m520 vrtx
Hi all!I'm looking for download links to the newest supported version of VMWare esxi version 6.X for the Dell Poweredge m520 vrtx. It is currently on VMWare ESXi 5.1.0 build 3070626. Any assistance...
View ArticleRepository Center & R900 (Pre 11th Generation ?)
Can I use the Repository manager to update Poweredge R900 ?Ver 2.2 DOES NOT list R900 as a supported system, but version 2.1 does. But, if when I run ver 2.1, it appears it downloads the same catalog...
View ArticleNew M630 Blade installation and fabric i/o slot assignment
Hi,We have an M1000e chassis and 4 existing M620 blades, im adding two new m630 blades and after completing the required chassis firmware updates and installing windows the status of the Intel x520...
View ArticleOME 2.2 and iDRAC5 is not supported what does it mean?
I see that iDRAC5 is not on the support matrix for OME 2.2but I'm able to get it in OME 2.2 by using SNMPdoes this mean only WSMAN is not supported for iDRAC5?Grz,Geert
View ArticleiDrac 7 in an R620
Hi,We have the latest firmware available applied to our iDrac7, however our security team have been doing scans and found CVE-2013-4786, CVE-2013-4037 vulnerabilities against the latest firmware. Are...
View ArticleOpenManage or Essentials or what?
I am re-doing a R710 with fresh software. I intend to run HyperV with 2 VM's. I made drive C on the physical 120GB so it won't run out of space as Microsoft OS's do. I installed WS 2016 standard.I am...
View ArticleNeed part number for PERC H730P Cables
I need the part number to the integrated storage controller cable.I have a refurbished 7H4CN installed in my Dell R7910, but I cannot find a part number for the cable.Many thanks,Wayne
View ArticleDell Poweredge 2950 III turn on but won't boot
So I normally shutdown my server at night, but then one day when I turned it on, the screen would not come up,. So I switched screens and had the same issue. Then I though maybe its the VGA output so I...
View ArticlePowerEdge T330 with H730 - Possible to Configure one HD Slot as Removable?
Hello,I have a new T330 with four full size HD caddys and four Dell 2TB SATA hard drives. I'd like to configure three of the 2TB drives in a RAID 5 and use the remaining slot for hot swapping in...
View ArticleSupportAssist login failed
HiI've installed SupportAssist to test with, but when I go to log in I get an unable to connect page after the credentials are entered. if i enter a wrong password it reports that, if i enter the...
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