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Dell is a manufacturer of computer and networking equipment, for both SOHO and enterprise usage. In addition, Dell also offers consulting services. This is a generic tag to be used when no more specific tags are available.

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Are there any good reasons for disabling hardware-assisted virtualization?

We've had a number of servers from Dell recently, all of which have had hardware-assisted virtualization disabled in the BIOS. As far as I know hardware-assisted virtualization is a good thing - so why would Dell disable it? Does it have a…
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IT says Hibernation Erases Boot Loader

My company issued laptop is Dell Latitude E7450 running Windows 7 Professional. If I hibernate the system, on boot it displays a blank screen and does not respond to input. Subsequent reboots do not yield different results. My IT department tells me…
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Server vendor that allows 3rd party disks

As noted here, Dell is no longer allowing 3rd party disks to be used with their latest servers. As in, they don't work period. Which means that if you buy one of these boxes and want to upgrade the storage later, you have buy disks from Dell at…
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Why do rack switches have their ports on the front?

I've ordered some rack hardware from Dell. A 42U rack, a 3U EqualLogic SAN, two 1U PowerConnect 5424 switches, three 1U PowerEdge servers, and some other stuff such as a tapedrive, firewall, UPS, etc. Since I have little experience with racks I…
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Should I use bios "Advanced ECC" in Dell PowerEdge R710 Bios with ECC DIMMs?

I have a Dell PowerEdge R710 with dual Intel Xeon E5503 CPUs. It has 96GB(12x8GB) of ECC DIMMs. In its BIOS, memory is configured for "Advanced ECC". My question is if my DIMMs are already ECC, does it make sense to enable this "Advanced ECC" mode…
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Is it okay to put a 2U server in a 2-post rack?

I have a Dell R710 2U server. It's pretty heavy, so it seems to me like it needs support in the front and the back, but we only have a 2-post rack. The rack is bolted to the floor, so it's pretty sturdy. In general, is it okay to flush-mount a 2U…
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Sonicwall not handing out address to VLAN on Dell switch

I have a dell switch N1548 I have a sonic wall TZ 215 I have followed every blog and forum post i can find online and still cannot get my sonicpoints to hand out addresses from the sonicwall to wireless clients. DHCP works fine for all others Here…
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Alternatives to Dell's mirrored SD card module for booting a small OS from flash?

Dell offers an add-on hardware card for some of their servers that provides a poor man's RAID1 between two SD cards (one card gets all the reads until it dies, writes are mirrored) for booting a simple OS that has very little write load to the OS…
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Monitor DELL hardware on VMware ESXi 5.5 server

Despite researching this topic quite a bit online (to be fair I'm not a full time sysadmin) I'm unable to figure this out. We have a bunch of VMWare ESXi 5.5 servers, some of which are integrated into vSphere, some of which are not (for cost…
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What are the iDRAC 7 default settings?

My company has purchased a server in one of our foreign offices. As this office is very far away, management has asked me to set it up remotely, to save on travel costs. The server (a PowerEdge T320) has a DRAC 7 enterprise, ordered at the same time…
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iDRAC Enterprise vs iDRAC Express on Dell Server

I have a Dell PowerEdge server with iDRAC6 Express and a PERC 6/iR (LSI 1068e) SAS RAID Controller. I'm a bit confused about what this means. Is it possible to login remotely to change bios/RAID configuration? If this is not possible what can the…
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After hardware RAID array expansion fdisk wont allow me to use additional available sectors

We have a large ~18TB hardware raid array on a Dell R720xd. Currently the RAID5 array consists of 6x4TB and I needed to extend it. Step 1 expand the hardware raid array. Simple enough if you have the dell admin tools installed. omconfig storage…
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Batch Query Dell Service Tags

Anyone know of a way to get a bunch of information for a list of service tags, does Dell have a section on their site for this? I would also be open to any Perl / Python libraries or *nix shell scripts. Right now I mostly want some sort of date for…
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Linux drivers for Dell PowerEdge Server?

I am looking at purchasing a Dell PowerEdge R720 with no OS on it. Then, I will likely put on Fedora Core or CentOS. My question is this, will the drivers on Dell's support site under the OS heading of "Linux" work on any distro? Or, can I use the…
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Java error Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system

I want to reboot a server, so I opened its Integreted Dell Remote Access Controller in Chrome, and clicked on "start virtual console", which caused Chrome to download a file with a strange name. The file opened in Java Web Launcher, which (after a…
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