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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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How can I manage Dell H700 RAID controllers from the Linux command line?

Previous PERC controllers could all be managed/monitored by the LSI MegaCLI tools. The latest release of those tools does not appear to recognize my H700 card: $ sudo /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -adpCount Controller Count: 0. Are there any…
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Server health monitoring software

Hey all! I am looking for some software to monitor the health status of our servers. Our environment is a pretty typical mix of HP/Dell running Microsoft Server and VMware vSphere. We are currently using WhatsUPGold and would like to migrate away…
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Faulty RAID1 disk now shows as foreign

I have a Dell R320 that has two physical drives in a RAID1 array. The RAID controller is a PERC H310 Mini. During routine maintenance I discovered that one of them was showing as faulty. I had to reboot the server and now the previously fault one is…
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How to connect two Dell storage arrays to a to a Dell Poweredge server (daisy chain vs direct)?

I purchased two Dell MD1000 storage arrays together with a Dell Poweredge 1950 server and need help setting them up (I am a complete novice to SAN/iSCSI). The Poweredge server has two SAS SFF-8470 connectors. Should the two storage arrays (which…
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Disable internal Intel X710 LLDP agent

We do special hardware configurations that require the heavy use of LLDP. We have a few new racks of servers that all use the Intel X710 10Gb network card. LLDP suddenly stopped working. Our implementation of LLDP is simple. Enable LLDP on the TOR…
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What does "shared mode" really mean on a ninth-generation and later Dell server DRAC?

We have a number of Dell PowerEdge servers, ninth generation and later. According to Using the LAN and Serial Interfaces in Ninth-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers: As an enhancement over previous generations of Dell PowerEdge servers, shared NIC…
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Dell Blade DRAC remote: Unable to connect to RAC

I'm attempting to remotely administer a set of Dell blade servers: PE M600 and M605 with iDRAC5. On my Windows 8.1 laptop I installed DRAC Tools v7.3. I can successfully remotely manage the M1000e CMC, as well as some non-blade servers (that have…
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Do dell perc 6i cards support online expansion of a raid 1 array when both drives have been replaced with larger ones?

Do Dell perc 6i cards support online expansion of a raid 1 array when both drives have been replaced with larger ones? For example the the Logical Drive 0 (LDO) has two member 73gb drives. We have two new 147GB drives available and inserted into the…
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Hardware checks for Dell R820 Servers through Nagios using SNMP

We use Nagios for monitoring. Is there a way to create hardware checks using SNMP MIB for R820 servers running ESXi5.x on them? Right now we are using this python plugin: current python plugin But we can use it no longer due to security policies…
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How do I secure a Dell Idrac card?

I'm trying to completely lock down a server which has to exist outside of a firewall/directly routed to the internet and whilst I have hardened the base OS to the best of my ability, I had a moment of horror when I thought that if the worst should…
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Does Dell Permit 3rd Party Hard Drives on Perc 6/i?

I have various Dell servers (all 2950's) I would like to put some SSDs in. I have spoken to Dell on the phone and asked for a quote for 128GB SSDs for 2950's, they told me they don't sell them for this server. These all have Perc 6/i's in them. Can…
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control startup order of several servers

I'm looking for recommendations on how to control the startup order of a rack of machine should they all need to be booted back up. In more detail: Group1: DHCP/DNS/LDAP Server Group2: NFS servers Group3: Web Servers Compute Nodes I'm…
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Force Dell iDracs and BMC's to use lanplus instead of lan interface

Is there a way to force my Dell BMCs and iDrac cards to only use the lanplus interface and not use the insecure "lan" interface. I understand that there are some "firewall" features in the IPMI spec. to restrict certain functions between chassis and…
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Dell MD1000 and an x4 SAS connector throughput / layout

I'm trying to get my head around how a multi lane x4 SAS connector works in a DAS system such as the Dell MD1000. I understand that each lane is 3Gbps, and that multiple hard drives can share a lane. What I'm having trouble finding information on…
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Dell PERC 4 (PowerEdge 2850): Unresolved configuration mismatch between disks(s) and NVRAM

We had an extended power outage (almost four hours); now I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server which is giving me this error (from a PERC 4e/DI) on boot up: All drives are listed in the PERC configuration menu: The failed drive does not show any…
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