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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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Dell Power Edge 2950 upgrade from 4GB to 32GB - says no memory

I removed the original 4 x 1GB memory from our Dell Poweredge 2950 server (we have 2 Xeon quadcore processors). I then added 8 x 4GB RAM. When booting, the server gives a message saying no memory and boot abort. Also the message "Intrusion" comes…
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VMware eSXi 5.1 on Dell R420 Poweredge

I am very new to VMware and its setup. Recently, my company purchased a Dell R420 server which has VMware eSXi 5.1 factory installed. It comes with 2 LOM NIC ports at the rear and from the Dell brochure it says: LOM 1 - VMWare management network LOM…
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Create image of 2008 R2

I'm trying to create an image of a Dell PowerEdge T320 server that can be used for future backups in case anything occurs with this server. Originally I tried to create a bartPE and use ghost32.exe in order to do this, however due to driver issues…
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VMware ESXi 5 licensing and hardware recommendation

I need to get visualization development machine where I will have a bunch of linux virtual machines that are not resource hungry. I expect that I would have around 10-15 virtual machines with 2-4 G RAM each. In total I expect that I would need to…
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two 1u servers or one 2u server

I was task to propose new servers. Given a budget that I can purchase either two 1u servers or one 2u server, which one should I go for? eg. 1u -> server Dell R310, 2u server -> Dell R710 Any pro and con if I go for 2u server?
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heatsink holder on motherboard cracked

I have an old Dell Poweredge 830 server. I just moved about 250 miles, and in that process broke something in the server. After some issues with the CPU fan not slowing down I realized that one of the two plastic hooks that holds a bar in place that…
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Restoring Win server 2008 from full back up?

I'm having trouble of restoring win server 2008, can anyone help me. First of all, i got the Power Edge 2900 running raid 1 with 3 disk. Power outage happend, and 2 disks are gone -slot0 and slot1 (both flash yellow led), and controller shows lost…
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Recover data from failed RAID 5 Dell Poweredge T710 Server

Very important data on RAID 5 array on poweredge T710 server - how can I get the data back? Willing to spend money to do it (eg buy a replacement system and swap the disks in), would prefer not to pay tens of thousands of dollars to a third-party…
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New to servers, just recieved an intransa va expandr

Intransa VA-EXPANDR 12 2 TB Disk array question. I received this 12 disk array along with a dell poweredge 2850. I would like to set up a RAID but i'm having trouble understanding how to hook up to the 12 disk array. It has an output port on the…
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Dell PowerEdge R610 with PERC6/i & Not certified hard drives

A small company was bought server Dell POWEREDGE R610 used in the past. In this server, a raid controller is installed PERC6/i Naturally, the server was purchased without hard disks. In all slots for hard drives were inserted hard drives of…
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Dell PowerEdge 2009 reports: No boot device available

I accidentally swapped the hard drives and when it restarted it said no boot device available. Please help. I already tried - clean the RAM and and put it back it doesn't work.
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Poweredge 6800 operating system

Can I put Ubuntu 14.04 LOS on this? Dell site says only Windows 2003 server? KVM board blocks any upgrades by blocking the USB and CDROM device from working?
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dell poweredge r900 hard drive max limit

Hey all I am in the market to buy a home server and ive been looking at different configurations and found the R900 having the best bang for the buck. However it concerns me that it states on dells website for this model that it only supports up to…
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Drive fault was asserted DELL

i have a DELL PowerEdge 2950 Server whit raid for 3 HDD. A friend whit a HP Proliant server which has broken, come to my help, to save information from the hard drive only had. When i put on my server his not reconized, and the error it's: HDD4…
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Ip Conflict Event 4199

I have a Dell server, which after a reboot is unable to use the IP address it had prior to the reboot. and I see an error message like the one below: Error: The system detected an address conflict for IP address 10.x.x.x with the system having…
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