M1000e FlexAddres consistency error
Hi all,My environment consist of 3 M1000e chassis and I was having a case of one new Blade server not getting FlexAddress assigned even after checking it is enabled for the slot.After applying the...
View ArticleR810 H700 unable to see the HDD to wipe raid partition
Hello to all,I have a r810 server with 6 SAS HDD 450GB.I have made the install of esxi and I saw that the HDD wasn't showing in the software so I enter to the H700 controller to setup the VDs. I made...
View ArticleRAID 1 cloning/rebuild for emergency backup (PE 1950)
We have PE 1950 with PERC 5/i with two 73 GB SAS drives in a RAID 1. Windows Server 2003 (non-R2) with critical application Primavera Contract Manager (old version from 2010). We needed an outside...
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Adding Hard Drive to Perc H710
We have a Dell T320 tower server with a Perc H710 and 3 - 2Tb SAS hard drives configured in RAID5. The 3 physical hard drives are configure with 2 virtual drives, 0 and 1. 0 is the OS and 1 has all...
View ArticlePowerEdge T410 OMSA on Windows 7 64 Bits
OMSA is it working on Windows 7 64 Bits. Installed but not allow us to use local administrator account for the logon. Have someone know this ?Thanks,Ivan
View ArticleR630, X710 and NC-SI pass-through.
Hello Support, Do the R630 chassis support the NC-SI interface with the Intel X710 adapters? Is it possible to access the BMC/IPMI through these off-board cards, and if yes is there a specific...
View ArticleMounting Screws for Perc H730
I'm in the midst of replacing the PERC H730 card on a PowerEdge 430 and lost one of the mounting screws, down a floor vent and I can't find it now. I have tried speaking with my Dell rep about it and...
View ArticlePowerEdge R520 mixed memory configuration
Hello,I have a dual-processor PowerEdge R520, and I want to upgrade the memory, while retaining as many of my existing DIMMs as I can (all, preferably!). It currently has 32GB in 8x 4GB ECC DDR3...
View ArticleDisk Speeds
Hi,I note the following:NOTE: The default setting for Disk Cache Policy for virtual disks based on SATA drives is Enabled; and for virtual disks based on SAS drives is Disabled.Why is the SAS cache...
View ArticleT320 USB and Video
I have a PE T320 tower that has faithfully served me for almost 3 years. It was setup and placed in a network closet to be used as a server and hasn't been touched since. Until today...I needed to make...
View ArticleVirtual Disk commands using RACADM
Hi,We wish to interrogate our fleet (Several generations of servers and controllers, including R730XDs) for their Storage Read and Write Policies.We want to be able to change those policies if they do...
View ArticleProgramatically connect to iDrac Virtual Console?
Is there a way to connect to the iDrac Virtual Console via a racadm command? or directly by navigating to a url? Or some other way?I connect to the Virtual Console frequently on a bunch of different...
View Articleembedded sas6i/r on PowerEdge410 disc upgrade
Hi all! Hopefully you can help the volunteer"ed" I.T. guy!Running CentOS 5.11 on a PowerEdge410 (service tag: <removed>) in smallish retail business. We are using old Titan enterprise "Point of...
View ArticleRaid type conversion on Dell PowerEdge VRTX
Hi,I have a Dell PowerEdge VRTX with two PERC8 controllers. There is a RAID0 of one disk, and I would like to Know if its posible to migrate this RAID0 to a RAID1, adding one disk.I have been seraching...
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R720 front LCD display is not working. Can't find DRAC IP.
We have a remote location where a user made me aware of a server that had a fan running at "Mach5". So I had the user look at the front display to find the DRAC IP address because my predecessor...
View ArticleInstalling Windows Server 2016 on R710
I have problem installing Windows Server 2016 on R710 - I have 16% complete window status during install.I run the Dell EMS update SUU-WIN32_17.07.200.173 but no additional install drivers was required.
View ArticleRAID 1 cloning/rebuild for emergency backup (PE 1950)
We have PE 1950 with PERC 5/i with two 73 GB SAS drives in a RAID 1. Windows Server 2003 (non-R2) with critical application Primavera Contract Manager (old version from 2010). We needed an outside...
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Adding Hard Drive to Perc H710
We have a Dell T320 tower server with a Perc H710 and 3 - 2Tb SAS hard drives configured in RAID5. The 3 physical hard drives are configure with 2 virtual drives, 0 and 1. 0 is the OS and 1 has all...
View ArticleR810 H700 unable to see the HDD to wipe raid partition
Hello to all,I have a r810 server with 6 SAS HDD 450GB.I have made the install of esxi and I saw that the HDD wasn't showing in the software so I enter to the H700 controller to setup the VDs. I made...
View ArticleMounting Screws for Perc H730
I'm in the midst of replacing the PERC H730 card on a PowerEdge 430 and lost one of the mounting screws, down a floor vent and I can't find it now. I have tried speaking with my Dell rep about it and...
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