13th Generation Drive compatibility
Are HDD drives from the 12th Generation compatible with the new 13th Generation of Servers?In other words: Can I use Drives from a R720 in an R730? (2.5")Can I use the drive caddies from a R720 in an...
View ArticleInternal Networking Issue with Windows 2012 R2 on Dell R710 + Hyper-V non UFEI
I have come across an odd one... I just rebuilt a Dell R710 with 4 Onboard Broadcom NICs and BIOS NON - UFEI Boot Mode. I installed Windows 2012 R2 Standard GUI. No matter what types of configurations...
View ArticleDual Homed NIC with iDRAC7 Express
Hi All,I got Dell T320 12G server with iDRAC7 express, no dedicated iDRAC card on server.Last week, I've installed SUSE Linux 11 SP3, also set the IP addresses aseth0 - 10.2.4.161 255.255.255.248 -...
View ArticleDell VRTX PCIE choices
I want to install a 4G Fiber card into one of the PCIe slots so I can connect a M620 to a Fiber Channel SAN. Has anyone done this and might be able to provide me with a PCIe card that will work.
View ArticleDell Power Edge 1955 fibre switch hj162
Hi there. I've a very newbie question.I'm working on the blade in subject and i want to connect my netapp ds14 mk2 with fiber switch.I connect the fibre switch with the san. But when i try to see the...
View ArticleDell power edge 1900 fails to boot with lad code 35
My system does not power up but when I press the information button on the lcd panel I get the numbers 35. I think this is not an error message. I can't find out from the manuals what it is.Can someone...
View ArticlePoweredge 840 Replacement Server Issues
I had a Poweredge 840 that I was pretty sure the motherboard went bad in. I ordered a used 840 as a replacement. I assumed that since it was sas I could just pull out the drives that came in the new...
View ArticleLudicrously Extreme Values for Temperature on DRAC- anybody seen this?
Who watches the Watchmen?Well, in my case, it's now a Zabbix server. If you'd like to keep yourself busy for a while, setup a monitoring server, and discover all the things that have been going wrong...
View ArticleDell Power Edge 1955 fibre switch hj162
Hi there. I've a very newbie question.I'm working on the blade in subject and i want to connect my netapp ds14 mk2 with fiber switch.I connect the fibre switch with the san. But when i try to see the...
View ArticleAdding ram to poweredge r710
Hello,I want to add additional RAM to my Dell Power-edge r710 dual cpu rack-mount server, but am not sure of the best approach. The server is currently in optimizer mode and has a 2gb in...
View ArticlePE T310 Server RAID 10 disk missing in span 1 (PERC 6/i)
I have an ESXi server that has recently experienced drive failures on disk 3 in span 1. This is a 4 x 1TB RAID 10 array and it has worked flawlessly for many years.After replacing the failed drive,...
View ArticleDell 7200w UPS IP Fragmentation
Hi,I noticed our DELL UPS is consistently broadcasting IP fragmentation.2519.507622 192.168.1.110 -> 255.255.255.255: ip-proto-17 (frag 2843:1480@1480+)2519.518838 192.168.1.110 ->...
View ArticlePowerEdge T310 won't post
Hello, For my home lab I have a T310 that has been working fine up until i tried to power it up this week. The server won't post, the fan tests run but then it just sits (i let it sit for up to an...
View ArticleStrange Failures
I have a T310 with a PERC S300 and 4 drives configured in a RAID 5 array. I noticed in the logs that drive 1 had failed and the Virtual disk was now degraded. So I obtained a replacement disk put it...
View ArticleUpgrade PowerEdge T320 cabled drives to hot-swap
Hi,I'm new to this forum, and have searched for this subject but couldn't find anything. I hope this is not a duplicate.Well, I just bought a PowerEdge T320 with cabled drives, and was wondering if it...
View ArticlePowerEdge R910 with 8x16GB RAM
I have a R910 with 4 x E7540 @ 2.00GHz, I installed 8x16GB RAM into the following slot:Riser A1,A2Riser C1,C2Riser E1,E2Riser G1,G2However the system cannot boot:No configurable memory detected.System...
View ArticleDefault boot device
I've now experienced this behavior on two machines and expect it will occur on all future servers I install. So I'd love to find a better solution.I'm trying to install Fedora using PXE kickstart on an...
View Article400GB Dell PowerEdge NVMe MLC Express Flash PCIeSSD, 2.5in, Hot-plug
can these new NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5in drives be used as a boot drive? also can multiples of them be put in a raid array?thanksChris
View ArticleBest practice for replacing a RAID10 array
I have a Raid10 data array in a T710 that needs to be replaced/rebuilt with larger drives. I have a total of six drives in the array. The controller is a PERC 6i integrated controller. After I have a...
View ArticleWinPE keyboard issue with new Poweredge
We just got in a Poweredge R730xd and i have to put a 2012 R2 image on it. I'm booting into a WinPE3 disk which was built on a Win7 source with the Dell drivers for this R730xd integrated using the MS...
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