Greetings I saved some Poweredge servers from the Ewaste shredder at my local scrap yard, namely two 1950s one 2950 and one 860. I have a question on the 1950, Would it hurt to run the system without the air duct that covers the CPU and memory? One of the 1950's is missing that plastic part and from the looks of the other one in the second 1950 it don't appear to do much. The 1950 in question seems to run fine without it, almost near silent. (For A Server)
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Air Duct Poweredge 1950 GII
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Life Cycle Controller
I recently updated the Life Cycle Controller to the newest version for my PowerEdge T420. When I rebooted the system I got a message telling me that the life cycle controller needed to be repaired so I once again, re-updated to the life-cycle controller. It appears to mostly be working except when I go to the Hardware Diagnostics it says "Unable to find diagnostics application. (SUP0511). Update the Diagnostics application using the Firmware Update feature in the Lifecycle Controller. Where do I find the Diagnostics application?
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PE update CPU hyper-v
power edge 1950 III
Last version Bios
CPU : E5345
Windows server 64b 2008
HYPER-V is running !!!
Followed by upgrade CPU for E5420
Server windows 2008 is running but Hyper-V not running (CPU problem)
What is the problem ?
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Thermal Shutdown for blades
Hi,
We recently had an air-con failure and had some very high temperatures recorded by serveral Chassis (>70deg C)
Yet none of our blades turned off.
I believe servers should shut down if a critical threshold is met (>47deg C)
Is there a setting that needs to be enabled before servers will auto-shutdown over the critical temp or is this a factory default to do so?
Thx,
John Bradshaw
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PE m1000e Chassis Question
I have a PowerEdge m1000e chassis with a number of m600 blades, and 4 ethernet pass-through cards in it. Can someone tell me how I can manage the mapping between the network controller cards on the blades and the ports on the pass-through cards? I haven't been able to figure this out yet. Thanks.
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PE R420, lower memory bandwidth than expected compared to old systems and modern desktops
Short: A new server seems to have too limited memory bandwidth, any ideas why?
I hope I come to the right place to ask this (first post). At my company we among others have a server for the development database. It is well overdue to replace the last server with a new one, not for lack of performance but warranty.
The previous server is a PE 2950 with a pair of Intel Xeon X5450 (3 GHz) and 16 GiB RAM (8 x 2 GiB). I was not here when the server was set up but it runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1. We like to do some benchmark before the new server goes into production so we compared with the old one (the 2950) which gets these results from hdparm -T
> hdparm -T /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00:
Timing cached reads: 25904 MB in 1.99 seconds = 13001.34 MB/sec
From the manual of hdparm one can read about the -T option:
"This displays the speed of reading directly from the Linux buffer cache without disk access. This measurement is essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, cache, and memory of the system under test."
The server wasn't idle when tested either (but presumable not under a too high workload). I go and test the same on my Optiplex 9020 desktop (running linux mint 15):
> sudo hdparm -T /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 25820 MB in 2.00 seconds = 12923.22 MB/sec
So we've established what seems to be normal. So now on the new server, which is a PE R420 with a pair of Xeon E5-2407 processors, 64 GiB (4x16) RAM, running CentOS 6.4 and is clean (no database software installed, it is doing nothing. I've also had the same result with hdparm from system rescue live cd):
> hdparm -T /dev/mapper/vg_neptunus-lv_root
/dev/mapper/vg_neptunus-lv_root:
Timing cached reads: 15616 MB in 2.00 seconds = 7820.36 MB/sec
It is very consistent around 7820 MB/sec, got +-5 MB. When testing 4 times in a row. I haven't gone around installing any special driver for linux, but as I didn't see any special for chipset etc I assume there isn't anything I can get from that that would change this figure.
I'm aware that the E5-2407 can only run the RAM at data rate of 1066 MT/s (PC3-8500). The 2950 has PC2-5300 memories (with a 666 MT/s data rate). Looking a the peek transfer rate (MB/s, on wikipedia) it means that the 2950 must run the memories in quad channel (?) but is the R420 only able to use single channel (which the theoretical peek is 8533⅓ MB/s).
I looked in the server, the memory modules are installed in A1, A2, B1 & B2. The ones and twos are not physically adjacent to each other so this should mean the memory should operate in dual channel for each processor.
Let me say that I've updated the BIOS to latest version, the memory setting is on performance (can't remember the exact name of the BIOS setting).
Any hints to how I can improve it as the hardware configuration is now? Is hdparm -T perhaps a bad test to run?
Hardware spec for the R420 from the quotation:
2 Intel Xeon E5-2407 2.20GHz, 10M Cache, 6.4GT/s QPI, No Turbo, 4C, 80W
1 PCIE Riser for Chassis with 2 Proc
1 Chassis with up to 8, 2.5" Hot Plug Hard Drives
1 Performance Optimized
1 1600 MHz RDIMMs
4 16GB RDIMM, 1600MHz, Low Volt, Dual Rank, x4
4 Module,Solid State Drive,480GB,Serial Ata,2.5,SMSG (replaced with Intel S3500)
1 PERC H710 Integrated RAID Controller, 512MB NV Cache
1 Dual Hot Plug Power Supplies 550W
1 On Board Network Adapter
1 Baseboard Management Contoller (12G)
Thanks for anyone manged to read all this and extra thanks for any advice!
Best regards
Christer
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Dell Server PowerEdge 840
Deal All,
I have Dell Server PowerEdge 840, its not booting and mother board capacitors seems burst out, So i am planning to change the motherboard, but the issue is that i am not getting Dell Server Power Edge840 mother board here in Kuwait or Dubai (UAE) market.
what other options i can do please suggest, i tries call and contact to Dell tech support but no success.
Please help..
Regards,
Ravi Shyam
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Unable to Install Windows 2003 Server on Dell Poweredge 1950 II with a Perc 5/I Raid Controller
Hello,
I have been trying to install Windows 2003 on a PE 1950 II with a Perc 5/I controller using raid-1.
It doesn't work with booting the Server 2003 disk (no hard drive found), also tried using F6 and a floppy drive with the perc 5/i driver, same problem.
In the RAID Bios (Ctrl-R) I created the VD Chose both drives, initialized it, and ran a Consitancy Check.
After creating the virtual disk in the raid bios, it says "space available 0mb" under "disk group 0 properties". However "virtual disk properties" shows the full size the RAID should be. Is there a step I am missing?
On bootup:
Bios is at 1.10 2.70
Power Edge Exanpanble Raid V 5.0.1 Build Dec 1 2005
PERC 5/I 6.0.2-003
I have tried using he USB Flash utility to load the driver and sipstream to add the drivers into the setup DVD Disk.
Am I not using the correct driver?
Thanks in advance for any help
Kevin
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Hardware Inventory
The Life Cycle Controlling kept freezing until I reset the configuration, however that also deleted a slight bit of information. Since I have a copy of the Factory Shipped Inventory as an xml file, is there any way to upload it back to the life cycle controller? or is that part on a Read-Only Chip that when doing a factory reset, it tells the system to ignore that information?
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how to avoid "press f1 to continue" during boot on PowerEdge T300
Hi guys,
I've got the systematic meesgae during boot on PowerEdge T300 :
"press f1 to continue"
I've disabled Keyboard error, plug or unplug usb keyboard, update BIOS, what else ?
Thanks for your help
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Dell PowerEdge 2900 III - CPU Upgrade Xeon x5492 3.4 Ghz
Hoping someone can confirm if a Dell PowerEdge 2900 III supports an Intel Xeon x5492 3.4Ghz. Latest Bios 2.7 shows support for 5400 series. Any information is appreciated.
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R620 needs USB3 or eSATA PCI card. Suggestions?
We need to attach some fast, external storage to this R620, but I have not had much luck in finding a PCI-e eSATA or USB 3.0 card that works.
I use the exact same cards that I've used in other PowerEdge models (earlier), but in the case of the eSATA card, it causes the POST to halt when it detects hardware. I've tried multiple USB 3.0 cards, and most have a problem with not having the power connector plug into the card. Is there a way to get a standard power connector off the power supply in the R620 to plug into a USB 3.0 card? I did find a card that did not need the power connector, and it is detected and Windows Server 2008 R2 loads it fine, but so far every USB 3.0 hard drive I plug in does not work for some reason or another. Windows will throw some odd error about the drive, or a some point in writing to it, it will just go offline.
So, what does work in the R620? Is it because it's using UEFI?? I prefer eSATA over USB 3.0, if that makes a difference.
Thanks for the help.
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PowerEdge R710 Memory configuration
Hello,
Just got some more RAM for our 710. Tried looking up the memory configuration and cannot find them. The one document I find referenced numerous places does not show 16GB modules. Only up to 8.
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-r710_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf Starts on page 129. Maximum memory should be 288...
Any help would be appreciated.
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T320 stucks at initializing firmware interfaces
Hi
After having installed an Adaptec 2045 RAID card in my T320, it refuses to continue to boot. the problem persists even if I deactivate completely LCC... I need machine running urgently. Please help me.
Regards
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System Updates - Week of December 11th 2013
System Updates - Week of December 11th 2013
System Management
iDRAC7 1.50.50 (Recommended) 11/27/2013
M1000e CMC 4.5 (Recommended) 11/27/2013
DellNetworking
PowerConnect 5500 Series Firmware 4.1.0.15 A09 (Recommended) 11/26/2013
PowerConnect 3500 Series Firmware 2.0.0.53 A10 (Recommended) 11/27/2013
Fluid Cache for DAS
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS 1.0.1 A01 (RHEL 6.3) (Optional) 11/26/2013
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS 1.0.1 A01 (SLES 11 SP2) (Optional) 11/26/2013
OS Driver Packs
1. Dell OS Driver Pack M915 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
2. Dell OS Driver Pack M910 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
3. Dell OS Driver Pack T620 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
4. Dell OS Driver Pack M820 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
5. Dell OS Driver Pack M710 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
6. Dell OS Driver Pack R415 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
7. Dell OS Driver Pack R610 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
8. Dell OS Driver Pack R820 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
9. Dell OS Driver Pack R715 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
10. Dell OS Driver Pack R520 7.4.0.16 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
11. Dell OS Driver Pack R515 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
12. Dell OS Driver Pack R420 7.4.0.16 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
13. Dell OS Driver Pack T610 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
14. Dell OS Driver Pack T420 7.4.0.16 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
15. Dell OS Driver Pack R410 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
16. Dell OS Driver Pack M610 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
17. Dell OS Driver Pack M620 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
18. Dell OS Driver Pack R310 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
19. Dell OS Driver Pack R620 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
20. Dell OS Driver Pack R510 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
21. Dell OS Driver Pack M710HD 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
22. Dell OS Driver Pack R720 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
23. Dell OS Driver Pack T710 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
24. Dell OS Driver Pack M610x 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
25. Dell OS Driver Pack R815 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
26. Dell OS Driver Pack T410 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
27. Dell OS Driver Pack R810 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
28. Dell OS Driver Pack R720xd 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
29. Dell OS Driver Pack R710 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
30. Dell OS Driver Pack M420 7.4.0.17 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
31. Dell OS Driver Pack R320 7.4.0.16 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
32. Dell OS Driver Pack R910 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
33. Dell OS Driver Pack M520 7.4.0.18 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
34. Dell OS Driver Pack NX3000 7.4.0.10 A00 (Optional) 11/27/2013
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R710 2nd CPU Install - E1410
Configuration Before: 1 x Xeon 5540 CPU with 24GB RAM
Configuration Now: 2 x Xeon 5540 CPU with 48GB RAM
- After installing a CPU in Socket #2 and RAM to match CPU 1 and the RAM, upon boot I get the error on the front LCD E1410 Fatal System Error.
- I have moved the new CPU2 into the CPU1 socket then removed the CPU 2 RAM and it boots with no issues.
- I then took RAM from CPU1 banks out and left it with only 2 sticks in slots 1 and 2, it booted with no issues.
- I then took and put the old CPU in Socket #2 and placed 8GB RAM in identical configuration into CPU 2 banks and get the same error.
After this troubleshooting it shows that its NOT the CPU that is causing the issue, and it doesnt seem to be RAM either. There are no pins bent or missing on the socket. I did try to reset the NVRAM but it doesnt seem like it fixed it. Is there some BIOS update that I need in order to use both CPU's? I have never seen any issue like this before... I just really hope its not the socket itself somehow.
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M1000 and network pass-throughs
We have an M1000 which has 1G 16 port pass-throughs in the A and B fabrics and a FC module in the C fabric. My question is about network adapters. We have been getting conflicting information. Does a full height card get 8 network connections, 4 from the A fabric and 4 from the B fabric? Are all 8 interfaces available to the installed operating system?
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Dell C6100 Node No Longer Boots
A few hours ago, one of the nodes on a Dell C6100 4 node server stopped responding while I was actively working on it. After 5 hours of troubleshooting, here is what I have found...
- No video output
- Because there is no video output, the BIOS is not accessible
- Cleared CMOS, same story
- Reseated and shuffled all the RAM - nothing
- Ping / traceroute timeout
However, the node is receiving power from the backplane. The IPMI ethernet port's activity lights turn on as soon as the node is plugged into the chassis and the blue indicator light appears when the indicator button is pressed on the front bezel. When the power button is pressed, the HDD lights go green and it spins up but the eth0 port still shows no activity. Essentially, the server is receiving power but does not boot with no signs of error LEDs or beeping errors.
IPMI is accessible via the web however the event log only shows http://d.pr/i/pPK5 and power control via that interface fails as well.
IPMI firmware: 1.22
BIOS version: Not sure, can't access it
Is this a bricked motherboard that should just be replaced?
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Where to buy memory?
I need 16GB ram Dell Part Number A5008568 ,MAy ay one tell me from where i can find it.
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RAM Upgrade Options
I have a PowerEdge R710 with dual CPUs and I am upgrading the memory capacity. I have ordered 6x 16GB 2Rx4 RDIMM 1333MHz LV.
Current Config:
A1, A2, A3: 4GB, 1333, 2RX8, 8, 240, Regulatory, Low Voltage
B1, B2, B3: 4GB, 1333, 2RX8, 8, 240, Regulatory, Low Voltage
Total: 24GB
2 Questions:
AM I correct in saying I can simply remove the existing DIMMs and install the 16GB DIMMs into the same slots?
eg:
A1, A2, A3: 16GB
B1, B2, B3: 16GB
Total: 96GB.
How can I use the existing 4GB DIMMs in addition to the 16GB DIMMs? What would the layout be?
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