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PowerEdge is the name that Dell has given to its server product line.

The PowerEdge line of server systems is Dell, Inc.'s most well known server product line, which it has been producing since 1996. Dell has made PowerEdge servers in various form factors including freestanding, rack-mounted, and blade formats, using either Intel or, more recently, AMD processors. Questions with this tag should be related to these servers.

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Experience of replacing fans in Dell Poweredge 1850

I've recently aquired a Dell Poweredge 1850 (1U rackmount server). Spec wise, it's great for what I need it for (running VMWare with a few VMs, pfSense firewall etc). The problem is it's not going to sit in a server room / data centre and the fans…
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Dell Poweredge SC1420 server - NOISE

Does anyone know if Dell Poweredge SC1420 server is very loud to put in a home closet?
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Transferring RAM from Dell T110 to Dell T1650

I have a Dell T110 II with 32GB of RAM (4 sticks) and a Dell T1605 with 16GB of RAM (4 sticks). Would it be possible to take the RAM from the T110 and transfer it to the T1650? They appear to have the same type of RAM, and the T1650 will handle…
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What is the impact of unbalanced memory on a Bulldozer Opteron server?

I have a PowerEdge R815 with quad Opteron 6272 and a faulty DIMM slot at A2. The system still boots with no DIMM installed there, but with warnings of an invalid memory configuration. I can silence the warning, but what kind of performance penalty…
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Dell NX3330 installing Windows Server OS?

Recently my company upgraded our storage system and now we have a few old Dell Power Vault NX3330 sitting around not being used. So I heard that it is possible to install the full windows server OS onto these windows storage server machine, as they…
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What might cause a DELL R610 with PERC H700 Virtual Disk to disappear after an OS install/reboot?

Problem I have a Dell R610 Server that I am trying to upgrade with some new disks and a new operating system. The server has a PERC H700 RAID Controller with firmware 12.0.7.001 (which is the latest I could find on the Dell site). I ran firmware,…
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Dell R510 can't access Lifecycle controller

NB: I've checked How to upgrade iDRAC firmware and BIOS of Dell PowerEdge R510? -- they are much further along in that they have LifeCycle controller working and just had an issue with the filetype. I'm having a tough time trying to update BIOS…
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how to power M910 without chassis

How to power M910 PowerEdge, without using the recommended M1000e chassis? I have an M910 blade server board, ram, and CPUs, but I do not know what power cables/supplies should use to power it up. Dell recommended, and maybe required, to use M1000e…
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Do all Dell r520s allow for 8 drives?

I noticed there are some models that only have 4 bays available and have the other 4 protected by plastic... Picture of Dell r520 Can you still transform these into 8 bay servers? Why do some of the r520s have the remaining 4 blocked, while others…
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What do I need to run a Dell PowerEdge M910 Blade server at home?

The Dell PowerEdge M910 is a powerful blade sever (up to 32 Xeon CPU cores) and I found it at a very low price. However, I'd like to make sure there is a way to run it at home (without all the infrastructure of a datacenter) before buying it. What…
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Booting Dell PowerEdge T300 without front panel

There is a front control panel on the board with a header. I do not have this and I want to boot up the server. I need to know where the power switch pins are so I can switch it on.
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How to Install Centos 6.7 on a new bare machine Dell R730xd

I am at wit's end! I have a brand new out of the box Dell R730xd. I am simply trying to install / boot Centos 6.7 onto it from a USB stick. I have downloaded (to my Mac) 3 flavors of Centos-6.7. minimal / LiveCD and DVD.1.bin. I used various…
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Dell poweredge 2950 and 1950 will not see hard drive

I am trying to put in a sata drive into my dell poweredge 1950 generation 2 and my dell poweredge 2950 generation 3. The drive is a sata drive which should be supported in my module. I was wondering what is causing it not be seen at all. The drive…
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Dell R410 and X5690 wont boot

I have an R410 that we opened up to upgrade from 2 x E5520 to 2 x X5690. However after the upgrade network didnt work and we could not even get a monitor output. We tried swapping CPU positions and eventually pulled the processor out. We since…
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Is Dell Poweredge 2950 faster than Dell Poweredge R820?

I have a 10 year old Dell Poweredge 2950 that will be replaced with a Dell Poweredge R820. Both of these machines are set up as a Virtual Machine Host Running Hyper-V. Both Operating Systems are Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard x64 Bit. I have MSSQL…
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