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T610 w/Dead BMC: Would DRAC6 Express bypass BMC?
Hey all, might be a dumb question but the story behind it is that there is a SMB owner that isn't exactly in a spot to drop the $$ for a brand new server (at least yet, I am trying to buy them time)...
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Dell VRTX Drive Configuration
I am trying to configure a Dell VRTX with 3 Blades with Windows 2012 R2 FailoverI followed the Dell instructions to create a Quorum Disk (RAID 1) and a cluster shared disk (CSV) - Raid 50. The issue...
View ArticleLifecycle Controller IP. Is it always active?
We currently have the Windows IP and the iDrac IP setup for all our servers. We then used the lifecycle Controller to do some firmware updates which needed yet another IP address.I really don't want...
View ArticlePowerEdge C6145 BMC critical condition event in Power On mode S0/S1
I have a PowerEdge C6145 that went off warranttee last Nov. We had a power outage about a week ago and our UPS failed. The PowerEdge C6145 seemed okay when the power cam back, but now it is blinking...
View ArticleDell C6100 Flashing green/amber lights
Hi there,I do apologize that this is almost certainly in the wrong place. I am very new to this forum and not too sure where I should be posting/looking.I recently got a second hand C6100 server...
View Articlemy dell poweredge t320 will not boot
i have a poweredge t320, i installed xubuntu 16.04 with seemingly every pertinent setting in the bios at every value. and all it does is go to grub rescue stating error:attempt to read or write outside...
View Articleinitializing firmware interfaces
hi,I restarted Dell PowerEdge M620 machine and not it is not coming up. when I saw using iDRAC remote console.it is showing "initializing firmware interfaces" and it stuck there. I waited for more then...
View ArticlePE M630 for VRTX and ESXi 6.0
I have a Dell VRTX server with two M630's for VRTX installed. When they were setup a year ago, I used the Dell customized image available for them to install ESXi originally, then I have used VUM to...
View ArticleRAID setups on new T620
We will be purchasing a new T620 with a PERC h710p card to setup a RAID1 and RAID10 scenario. We would like to have the C:\ as RAID 1 and D:\ as RAID 10 with one more HDD as a global hot spare. The...
View ArticleDell T20 and SR-IOV
Hi,I have a Dell T20 with the Xeon processor; I'm generally very happy with it but I'm struggling to get SR-IOV working with my Intel 82576 Network cards. As far as I can tell, my system meets the...
View ArticleiDrac Express - R720 ?
I am trying to setup iDrac on a Dell R720. I have setup iDrac at system boot menu and I have "EXPRESS" license. I cannot figure out what physical port on the Dell do I connect to use this license.It...
View ArticleR815 : Non optimal memory configuration after upgrading from 2 CPUs to 4
Hi folks,I have a few R815 servers that I've upgraded from 2 CPUs each to 4 CPUs each. The servers have 256GB of RAM in the form of 16x16GB PC3L 12800R sticks.After first seeing that message, I...
View ArticleReported fault on every SATA drive when connected to a Perc 6/i raid controller
I recently purchased a Dell R710 (service tag <removed>) that came with a Perc 6i integrated raid controller.I also purchased 6 (Dell Certified 1TB Enterprise SATA 3.5") hard drives,...
View ArticleM1000e with M610 Blade. iDRAC6 problems communicating with CMC
Ear all, I have blade M1000e, servers are PowerEdge M610. BIOS version is is 6.4.0., its CMC (M1000e) Firmware version is 5.12, and iDRAC6 Firmware version is 3.80 (Build 3). While resetting...
View ArticleDell T110 ii F10 automatically on startup
Server Dell T110 ii company automatic on startup F10 how to overcome ?
View ArticleR710 displays only 640x480
I have 2 Dell R710's that only display 640x480 out of both the VGA ports. There is no indication of a video driver issue, and these devices are on 24/7 so it's not like it happened during a reboot. Any...
View ArticleDell 510 MIX memory configuration
I have 1 cpu out of 2 on my dell 510 & i want to install part of a mix of 3x8GB & 2x16GB memory that i have, i have 4 slots per cpu 1-3 white 4 black. i is correct that -1. the second group of...
View Articlepoweredge 2900 PERC 5
hello all, i wonder if there is anyone here who can help me, i know very little about servers and i suspect i have done something stupid, and im hoping its reversable.i have a poweredge 2900, all was...
View ArticleDeep Learning Project with PowerEdge T630 and Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X
Hi all,I'm going to run a deep learning project with Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X GPU.One of my options is utilizing a PowerEdge T630 server.So, I have two questions:1- Does T630 support Ubuntu OS?2-...
View ArticleEnterprise FTP
Is the Dell Enterprise FTP site down or having issues? I've got several servers i'm attempting to perform updates on via the lifecycle controller and keep getting FTP Authentication failed- enter...
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