RAC0503 and RAC0501 with T620 and H310
I have a T620 with one Perc H310 connected to the backplane. In the iDrac when I go to storage I get the following error:RAC0501: There are no physical disks to be displayed. 1. Check if the host...
View Articleidrac upgrade / fan speed poweredge t620
I recently upgrade my idrac firmware to 2.10.10.10 from 1.46.45. Since then my fan speeds now run at 2000-2100rpm with normal load. Prior to the upgrade they were running at 1200rpm approx.I've tried...
View ArticlePowerEdge T310 memory upgrade problems
HiToday I tried to upgrade the RAM of a T310 server (one X3440 processor) using 4x8Gb memory modules The mainboard has 6 slots in a row. (The 1st and the 4th slot have white clips).So, I've installed 2...
View ArticlePowerEdge C8220 sled problem
We have a C8000 enclosure populated with eight C8220 sleds, each fitted with dual Intel E5-2680 2.7 GHz CPUs and 128 Gb of installed memory. One of these sleds however has always been slow - it takes...
View ArticleiDRAC6 Monolithic v1.99 and Lifecycle Controller/Unified Server Configurator...
Hi Guys,I recently upgraded one of my R710s from iDRAC 1.2 to 1.99 and that went smoothly, obviously this took it out of the compatibility matrix here for...
View Articlem1000e configuration
Hi,Is it possible to save a configuration for an m1000e chassis and apply that config to another m1000e chassis?If so, how?Thx,John Bradshaw
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R720 with H710P CacheCade Question
Trying to redesign my server to maximize database performance. I've not used cachecade before and thought I'd give it a whirl in my server to see if it helps database performance. It's hard to get a...
View ArticleInternal server ports on VRTX
I feel like I'm going to get a painfully obvious answer here, but how do I activate more ports for a blade server in a VRTX chassis?Both my blades have 2 of 4 ports active. If i go into port config in...
View ArticlePoweredge 1850- bblinking amber light(hardware failure). Any way to find the...
A few months ago, I buy a old poweredge 1850 with 1 single core hyperthreaded Xeon's. It worked when it was being shown to us, but it didn't post when we got home. I tried a lot, and I see...
View ArticleT310 automatic "power on" setting?
When we are away for extemded periods, we turn our servers off. Sometimes however we need to start the servers remotely and we don't want to rely on WOL for this. We've had nothing but trouble with...
View Articleinstalling M610 with vmware esxi 6.0
Does anyone have vmware esxi 6.0 running on M610 blades? The M610 shows up on the vmware compatability list and Dell has a custom .iso for 6, but 6 is not an option under the Life Cycle Controller and...
View Articlereloading windows on a 2950 server that is used and everything is erased
just bought a server 2950 iw was used by a company and before they sold it windows was removed. i like to put widows 2008 on it but missing a few progams that will not let the dic be read
View ArticleDell T630 RAID configurations
Hi.I plan to acquire a T630 with 30x 300 GB 15 K SAS drives with Dual PERC H730PQuestions:1. Can I create the following RAID setsLogical Drive C = RAID 1 with 2x 300 GB (OS)Logical Drive D = RAID 10...
View Articlem1000e configuration
Hi,Is it possible to save a configuration for an m1000e chassis and apply that config to another m1000e chassis?If so, how?Thx,John Bradshaw
View ArticleR730XD H730P - F/W in in Fault State
When booting up, I get the following message from the PERC Controller:F/W is in Fault State - MFI Register State 0xF0010000Adapter at Baseport is not respondingNo AdapterWe use a bunch of SSD's.Any...
View ArticleBMC is not detected.
Hi all. I have a server PowerEdge R200 with bmc, but I can not connect to the bmc over lan. I set up a network through ipmitool.ipmitool lan print 1Set in Progress : Set CompleteAuth Type...
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NIC updates...loooooong time taken
Hi,When performing a NIC update on an R820 (via DRAC) I noticed that the Task Time Limit is set to 1 hour and 40 mins!! This would cause major disruption if it really extended that far. (Actual only...
View ArticlePowerEdge T105 SAS Drive Failure?
Getting this error after power failure. Server has 2 SAS drives, I think one of them may be failing. How do I determine which drive is faulty and how do I replace/rebuild drive without loss of...
View ArticleRAC0503 and RAC0501 with T620 and H310
I have a T620 with one Perc H310 connected to the backplane. In the iDrac when I go to storage I get the following error:RAC0501: There are no physical disks to be displayed. 1. Check if the host...
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H200 RAID controller card - should it be this complicated?
I got a Dell T110-II with the S300 RAID controller and SATA hard drives. I got Win Server Essentials 2012R2 vial Volume License. Duh! The S300 doesn't work with server essentials 2012R2.So I order...
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