Poweredge C1100 PERC 6/1 HP SAS drives not recognized
Hello,First, please pardon my ignorance. I'm setting up my PE C1100. I bought it and some HP 300GB 15k SAS drives, model ef0300fatfd. The drives weren't detected by the BIOS, though I'm getting a...
View ArticleAdded second CPU to R710 - performance issue
Hello,So we users servers to transcode media into H264 and we were pleased with 2xE5520 performance on Dell R610 we saw in one of the workshops. We decided to buy R710 as we needed some PCIe...
View ArticleHow to recover from reported failure of multiple drives while system powered...
Hello,I had a logical drive failure on a PowerEdge 2600 I recently inherited and I am hoping to get some suggestions on how to fix it.System was configured with 6 disk drives as a single RAID 5 logical...
View ArticleC6100 IPMI web certificate key size
I was given a 4-node C6100 as a development/test environment for a project. As it turns out, recent versions of Firefox and IE no longer allow me to connect to web servers with less than 1024bit RSA...
View ArticleRAID 1 support on Dell PowerEdge R730 with Perc H730 and SSD disks
Hello. I am looking for some info about using RAID with SSD disks on our server:Dell PowerEdge R730 Perc H730 Integrated RAID controller 1 GB cache200 GB Solid State Drive SAS Mixed Use MLC 12 Gbps 2.5...
View ArticleIDSDM not selectable as boot option on R730 firmware
We just acquired an R730 with the dual IDSDM option.I am unable to directly select the IDSDM /SD card as a boot option in either BIOS or UFEI.Firmware has been updated to the latest revision. OS...
View ArticleKVM KMM setup
I am trying to setup a DKMMLED185 with a DAV2108 (8 port analog) but the Keyboard and Touchpad is not responding. The VGA is working, I can switch between servers but no action from the Keyboard and...
View ArticleEvent id 6008
I have a poweredge 2650 windows 2003 sp2 server that has been begun to reboot randomly about once a day. The only thing I see in the logs is the event id 6008 unexpected shutdown. There is nothing in...
View ArticleHow to use download files from repository on a T110 II
Hi,I'm new to Dell Poweredge server, coming from HP Proliant I see I have something that are similar.I downloaded and installed the Dell Repository Manager. Created the repository folder and populated...
View ArticleProcessor speed limit on PE T410?
I've been benchmarking my PE T410 with 2x x5670 Xeons and cannot get them to run at full speed. I've tried disabling C-states, C1E, even turbo mode in BIOS, along with all variations of Max...
View ArticleS110 to PERC 710 cable?
Hello,We have a T620 running Server 2012 R2, and need to upgrade the RAID controller, because the performance is ridiculously poor right now. We are using 2 TB RAID 1 as OS/data partition. After...
View ArticlePowerEdge T710 will not power on
I have a poweredge T710 which will not power on, hit the power button nothing go in through the Drac and try to power it on and nothing again. The power supplies both have green led lights on what...
View ArticleDell sending systems locked with no key
Is it standard practice for Dell to send out a server completely locked with no Key.How am I supposed to verify they have completed my other with the parts I requested?Shouldn't a key be part of the...
View ArticlePoweredge T410 Overtemp Error
I've had a T410 server that just came out of warranty (of course) and suddenly developed a heat issue. I receive the following error in the small screen on the front of the case:E1114 Ambient temp...
View ArticleOMSA on CentOS/RHEL 7
Hello all!I want to get OMSA work on my old PowerEdge 2950 server. OMSA 7 works well with CentOS 6, will it be available on CentOS 7 too?Thanks.
View ArticleDell r610 slow booting
Hi i have a Dell r610 but it takes some seconds to startup i got 48gb ram, i just checked that everything is ok in terms of ram, hard drives, my bios version is 2.0.13 what can i do to optimize...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110 Power Issues
The software I am using on this Dell desktop computer is Windows Server 2012. When I go to shut down the computer by using the start menu, it does not fully shut down. It turns off my monitor and then...
View ArticleKVM KMM setup
I am trying to setup a DKMMLED185 with a DAV2108 (8 port analog) but the Keyboard and Touchpad is not responding. The VGA is working, I can switch between servers but no action from the Keyboard and...
View ArticlePoweredge T410 Overtemp Error
I've had a T410 server that just came out of warranty (of course) and suddenly developed a heat issue. I receive the following error in the small screen on the front of the case:E1114 Ambient temp...
View ArticleDell r610 cant update firmware, bios, etc
Hi im trying to install updates to my r610 using usb stick with the repository manager selecting windows x64 bits, but when i try to install on my server it shows No Update available using Dell...
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