Lifecycle Controller IP Address
I'm curious what common practice is for assigning a Lifecycle Controller IP Address for Poweredge Servers. Do people use the same IP as the installed OS since both will not be up simultaneously?
View ArticleE1245 CPU 2 VIO Regulator failure. Contact Support. E1000 Failsafe voltage...
dear all, i have a troubleshooting on dell poweredge R910so, for resolve this problem, I have do this configuration Two Processors Two DDR3 RDIMMs in Slots 1 and 2 of Memory Riser_A I/O riser installed...
View ArticleUse a PCI graphics card on Poweredge T620
Purchased Poweredge T620, with a NVIDIA Tesla C2075 CUDA card in for use as a high end workstation and CUDA machine.Due to the programs I must run I have set the machine up dual booting Windows 7 and...
View ArticleNIC driver updates
Hi,We have a poweredge R910 (servicetag: <ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed as per privacy policy>), that the RDP connection to the Hyper-v virtual Machines on this server rendomly failed, one of...
View ArticleR720 hangs/goes slow with FPGA PCI card
Hi,We have a Dell R720 which is having a few problems with a (Xilinx chipped) FPGA PCI card. The server itself is running CentOS 6.4 x64, OMSA 7.4.0 and the latest BIOS we can get our hands on (2.1.3)....
View ArticleHow to calculate BTU and Power Consumption for a server or array?
What is the proper way to calculate the BTUs and Power Consumption for a particular device?
View ArticlePowerEdge 1850 Supported Processor list
I need to know all the processors that the Poweredge 1850 supports.I am particularly interested to know if it supports the Paxville MP Dual cores @800mhz that has Intel VT.It has the socket 604, and...
View ArticlePoweredge 1900 issues
hi, ive just purchased a second hand poweredge 1900 but i cant seem to get it to boot with any display, it has the perc daughterboard with ram and battery backup,. also has 2x2gb fb dimm ram sticks...
View ArticleT710 - New Motherboard - Only one of the four Networks connections work
I figured it out but don't see how to delete so will simply post this.
View ArticlePE 2950 III - SUU cannot update Broadcom NetXtreme firmware
We have a PowerEdge 2650 Gen III running Windows 2003 SP2 Standard Edition. We are using Dell SUU (SUU_740_Q42013_A00) to try to update the firmware of our Broadcom NetXtreme NICs. The update fails...
View Articlecan vmware vcenter server 5.1 be installed on a physical PE860?
I was hoping to re-purpose this 860 if it is able to to handle the vcenter install. The Pentium D pressler 925 is x64 bit?Any insight would be appreciated!
View ArticleiDrac6 Enterprise for T310 K869T or J675T ?
I am looking to purchase an IDrac6 Enterprise card for a T310. Using Dell's website I cannot find the appropriate part so I am forced to look at resellers that appear to sell them. The problem is that...
View Articleexpansion card in poweredge T20
HiIn our university department we are planning to get a few poweredge T20. Since we need basic openGL, I would like to add some basic gfx card onto pcie. On our existing T110-II we have successfully...
View ArticleR620 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...
View ArticleSUU Downloads from Repository Mgr failing around 90%
Hey,I have tried to download several SUU updates over the last week (different combinations of servers and packages eg R820 32 bit windows, r720xd 64 bit) and they are failing before finishing.Just...
View ArticlePart number for rack ears on R610
I have a refurbished R610 that had the rackmount ears removed. I'm trying to locate a part number so I can see if there is somewhere I can order a replacement set from, but my Google-fu is not working...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950 BIOS boot utility partition problem
Whenever I boot my PowerEdge 2950 using BIOS 2.7, I get an error right after the DRAC config saying utility partition not found, f1 to continue or f2 to enter setup. This does not happen with 2.4.3 or...
View ArticleQuestions on Adding Memory to a R420
Dell PE R4202 Intel Xeon E5-2407 2.20GHz Processors with 24 GB RAM - (6) 4GB RDIMM 1333 MT/s, Low Volt, Single Rank modules.The server has 12 DIMM slots. I have not opened the server.I am guessing...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950 and E2K-UCP-61
I have a 2950 now I am planning on running my the two Sas drives I have currently in raid1 then the other 4 with 2T 7200k enterprise Sata drives Raid 5. My question is will this raid card take 2T...
View ArticleMemory Upgrade Poweredge T110
Hi,I bought this memories: 4GB 240p PC3-10600 CL9 18c 512x4 DDR3-1333 1Rx4 1.5V ECC RDIMM RFB, Micron, BUL, MT18JSF51272PZ-1G4DDescription:MT18JSF51272PZ-1G4D1BB BUL 4GB 240p PC3-10600 CL9 18c 512x4...
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