Internal RAID lost config, but want to find out why, need older dset for RHEL...
I have an old PE1750 when restarted this morning said there was a mismatch between disk and nvram, and the internal mirrored with hot spare config was lost. luckily when the config was put back on in...
View ArticleMixing RAM Modules
Hello,can anybody tell me if this configuration will be valid in a R710 dual Processor?currently the Server has 32GB and I want to add 4x16GB to have 96GB (I have added those modules as example in A8,...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R710 Memory Setting
Dear All,I have 1 Server Dell R710 and I have 4 RAMs each one 16 G and 2 RAMs each one 4 G, so please help me for the best installing. to be know I try may position and every time i got error and the...
View ArticleBattery on Controller PERC 5/E Adapter failed
Hello,We have Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i Integrated & PERC 5/E Adapter (PCI Slot 2, connected to PowerVault MD1000)This morning Dell OpenManger Server Administrator showed that...
View ArticleUnable to turn on UID on C6220
Hi!I'm trying to turn on the UID Chassis led light ON through IPMI. I'm trying to use "chassis identify force" but the outcome is Chassis identify interval: offWould anyone be able to throw some light...
View ArticleWhere to get Hard Disk Backplane for R720xd
We ordered an R720xd a few weeks ago, but did not see an option to add the back plane for the hard disk. in fact we only learned of the backplane after looking inside the server.can anyone advise how...
View ArticleiDRAC 7 Enterprise Evaluation Licesnse
According to the iDRAC7 Licensing Wite Paper I should be able to acquire a 30 day evaluation license for the iDRAC7 enterprise...
View Articleadd hard drives to CERC SATA 1.5/6ch RAID controller
Can I add additional hard drives without re-installing windows 2000 server on my Power Edge 1800 with a CERC SATA 1.5/6ch RAID controller? I believe the system currently has 3 hard drives.
View ArticlePowerEdge T105 Server compatiblity with SAS HBA PCI card Model UCS-70
Hi,We have a PowerEdge T105 Server and would like to connect Dell LTO-6 SAS Tape drive to that server. There are PCI slots available .. but wanted to know if that server can accomodate this HBA card ?...
View ArticlePowerEdge Compatible GPU List
Hello,I want to use Nvidia GPU on PowerEdge servers. I know R720 configurable with GPUs but are there any specific list of graphic cards with the server is compatible. I would like to use Tesla K10 and...
View ArticleT320 video card upgrade
Does anyone know of a PCIe video card that will work in my new PE T320 server? I am unhappy with the VGA only output of the embedded Matrox card.Thanks for any suggestions.-robb
View ArticleUpgrading to 64GB
Hello,is there a valid configuration to upgrade RAM to 64GB maintaining the current RAM modules?PER710 Dual Processorthis is the current configuration...
View ArticleHelp with Poweredge 17fp
I was given this PE17fp new in the box and I have a few questions. First off I have never worked with one of these before so my questions may sound dumb. Sorry in advance.1. The dongles I was given...
View ArticleRHEL Team Bonding 11th Generation PE Servers
This question is in regards to Dell 11th generation hardware that have 4 embedded interfaces (e.g. R610, R710, R810) running RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 servers. We normally run these in an active/passive mode...
View Article1950 III power monitoring
Hopefully a easy question for the list,On a PE1950 III with one PS - should I be able to see power stats in DRAC?This is what I see: No power sensor information available for this system.I've only...
View ArticleM600 boot error
Hi there, I have the following error on one M600 Blade server, it has the System Error at boot... Just Halt with the following legend : "System Halted!" Using the Blade DRAC, the error is: General...
View ArticleR720 , Bios update failed, Rollback is scheduled and not running
HiI have a Dell r720 with dual cpu configuration. Some days ago I tried to update the bios from 1.6.0 to 2.2.3, From a USB, When it restarted it failed booting with this error, after configuring memory...
View ArticleDell System Hardware & Software Updates for Week of June 9th ~ 13th 2014
Dell System Hardware & Software Updates forWeek of June 9th ~ 13th 2014 Popular Hardware Updates:Systems Build and Update Utility 2.2 http://dell.to/1pcHqjqDell DSET: http://dell.to/1pb7oH9...
View ArticleiDRAC6 on ESXi 5.5
Hi All,We recently tried to set up iDRAC6 on a Dell PowerEdge R710 (pressing ctrl+e on boot).We were having issues communicating with the iDRAC, apparently there is a bug with BIOS version 1.54?The...
View ArticlePoweredge R420 - Uncorrectable Memory Error + Power Control Unit Error
Hello everyone,I'm just posting to ask if anyone has a good idea of what this following error would be on this poweredge R420 I'm trying to install Linux on:CPLD version : 104Alert! System fatal error...
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