Best Processors for PE-R610 Gen1?
Sorry if it's around and I missed it but I have not been able to find a 100% definite answer to my question. I have a Revision 1 R610 with a single E5502. I want to jump it up as far as I can (within...
View ArticleRNIC - RDMA for R910
Hi, need to check Nic for R910 servers with support to RDMA.I check BCM5709C , but apparently requires a license."RDMA controller (RNIC) (enabled through an optional hardware key)"Does anyone know what...
View ArticleR720XD has all the amber indactor lights on steady but server is working fine?!
The status indicator lights on our PowerEdge R720XD are on steady. You can also see the primary status light has both the amber and blue LED's on... basically, ALL the LEDs are lit up. The server is...
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LifeCycle interface different from videos
(PREFACE) Okay so I am completely new to iDrac with LifeCycle so bare with me... The Youtube video on installing Win Server 2016 dated 11/16 (and new videos as well) shows a menu bar which I simply...
View ArticlePowerEdgeM710HD blades iDRAC6 TLS 1.1+
In light of security vulnerabilities in TLS 1.0, I need to disable this protocol on our PE M710HD blade. The CMC has chassis firmware 5.21 and is good with TLS 1.1+ however each individual blade,...
View ArticleNeed PowerEdge C6100 FCB FW
Hello,The C6100 chassis was available with two different fan control boards (FCB) - the PIC16 and PIC18. The only firmware listed on the public Dell Support site is for the PIC18 (FCBV120V2). I need...
View ArticlePoweredge T630 Creating two virtual disks
So I must be missing something because I have two drives that I want to RAID 1 for the host OS and the rest as RAID 10. Yet I can create one Virtual disk just fine but when I create the second the...
View ArticleReplace R420 by importing the disks to another R420
We have two R420 servers. One is not booting correctly due to a SWC0700 idrac error. I would like to move the drives from the bad R420 to the spare R420. Should I be able to run an import on the PERC...
View ArticleH710 Controller Not Recognized by BIOS? (PowerEdge R720)
Hello,So I recently acquired a PERC H710 Integrated RAID controller and installed the component as per the Dell documentation here:...
View ArticleEvent 11
Hi,We having a problem with one of our Powerdge R710. Today server has lost its E drive, rebooted the server still not back. did run Dell server manager and it shows no defect drive, and it only shows...
View ArticleT610 Noise Fan Speed
St <removed>Server running fine no issues other then very loud fan speed and noise. No fan failures that can be identified , Overall system performance is fineOS = 2008R2
View ArticleH200 >2.2TB SATA support
Does the H200 card, updated to the last firmware, support SATA drives larger than 2.2TB (in RAID 10)?
View ArticleBest Processors for PE-R610 Gen1?
Sorry if it's around and I missed it but I have not been able to find a 100% definite answer to my question. I have a Revision 1 R610 with a single E5502. I want to jump it up as far as I can (within...
View ArticleCapture HDDs Serial numbers from R730xd with PERC H330 Mini controller
Hi Some background:Server Type: R730xd with PERC H330 Mini controller + 14 HDDsOS: No OS currently installedTask: Is to capture all HDDs serial numbers and save to text file for asset capture...
View ArticleUpgrade Windows Server 2003 R2 Dell Inc. PowerEdge T100 to Windows Server 2012
Good morning,It will be possible to upgrade our server PowerEdge T100 from Windows Server 2003 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2? (2.67 gigahertz Intel Xeon 64 kilobyte primary memory cache, 3072 kilobyte...
View ArticleDell Harddrive 450GB SAS, 15K 3.5", Seagate Eagle, H995N
HelloI've bought on september 27, 2016 these 2 new harddrive to put into a Dell T 610 out of warranty. Now one of these hd is down. I try to format it and rebulding raid but it's always down. Are...
View ArticleT110 & Large Drives (>2TB)
I have a PET110 with a SAS 6/iR controller used as a dedicated video surveillance server (Axis Camera Station server with 15 cameras). I have 2 drives in RAID 1 for OS and previously 2 x 2TB drives...
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 ArticleAF 4kn sector drives support on Perc, Poweredge, Powervault
Been hunting for information on sector size 4kn Advanced Format support on Perc, PowerEdge and PowerVault. Dell published a document about these specs however it does not mention specific Dell...
View ArticleIsolated blade server operation [M600]
Hi all,I'm rather new to server operations and hardware, so please forgive me if I'm slow at picking up things.I'm currently doing a project that requires me to operate the M600 blade server...
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