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BloodKnight7

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  1. Try using lifecycle controller to install the OS. You can access lifecycle controller by pressing F10. Follow instructions in this link: https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-ca/poweredge-r630/sys_mgmt_gsg/setting-up-your-dell-poweredge-server-using-dell-lifecycle-controller?guid=guid-5e0aadbf-aa52-4f12-baa8-5866604bb8cd&lang=en-us
  2. have you tried creating a new vm and just attatching the old vmdk drives?
  3. Use Dell Command Update to apply the latest firmware/drivers available for your optiplex. If you are going to run the system 24/7 having the newest most stable available firmware definitely helps! Other than that all the recommendations above are quite solid. I would also give it a deep cleaning/repaste before putting it on operation.
  4. I agree with Blue4130 on this one, unless you are doing a very write resource intensive application (like logs from a high performance database) RAID 6 will work better for you than RAID10. It will also give you more space.
  5. You plan the server to do what role(s) exactly? just a NAS?
  6. No issues, glad we could be of service! Maybe this older server needs more amps/watts and that was juicing out the ups. Anyways, good luck with your future endeavors.
  7. Next time just remember, as long as you keep your vmdk-flat file(s) you can regenerate and recover all your vms even if everything else goes to hell.
  8. you mean... like re-create even the VMs? oh man... if that was the case so sorry I arrived too late. We could had regenerated the VMs from their vmdk-flat files.
  9. Captain here, for IBM the best thing you can do is to look for their "redbooks". Lots of reading to do but you will learn all the basic setup/functionality. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247010.pdf
  10. If you create a new vm from scratch... will it turn on? if it does...then just try creating a new vm and then attatching the old virtual disk to the new one.
  11. well... best of lucks with the testing, if you dont find the culprit in the PSUs, the PDUs or the UPS then Im afraid there could be an issue with the motherboard....which would be normal due to the server age, electronic components start to degrade.
  12. Well... that is intersting, I havent touched an HP server in about 9 years, but from what I can see those brown-out events means that your server lost power temporarily, this could either mean something is wrong with the motherboard, or the PSUs, or even the UPS system you have the server connected to could be at fault. Try just having 1 of the power supplies plugged in, if it fails try the other one. Also... why is your onboard clock not with the proper day time, maybe your battery is dead?
  13. I would start by checking the ILO logs...if its a hardware issue you should be able to pinpoint it in the ipmi logs.... if there is nothing there then we would need to check vmware logs... specifically /var/run/log/vmksummary
  14. If you have unlimited budget you can get good ventilation solution with a tempered glass rack....personalized to your choosen criteria from one of many companies that offer such services... I know this guys https://www.martinenclosures.com/product/air-conditioned-server-racks/ they made the most gorgeous show room for a customer's Datacenter that I have seen in my life, they even put LED lighting.
  15. yeah... its unfortunate that ESXi is limited in this specific regard, you have to depend on that hardware RAID
  16. Just out of curiosity, did you disabled the write/read cache for the SSD when you created the RAID 0/RAID10 drives? with SSDs you get better performance without those.
  17. I rarely use Cisco for home/small business use, its expensive and it does not offer any cutting edge advantage over the other competitors in the segments, in this case my personal preference as an IT pro would be Ubiquiti.
  18. You could ask your Dell Partner or Account executive about Unity XT or PowerStore or if you are on a budget the PowerVault NX. There is also the posibility to get migration and deployment services.
  19. Shoot...lol... under what scenario is filling an enclosure with hard drives is cheap?
  20. Buy a cheap MD1200 2.5'' sata disk enclosure connect it to any PC through SAS and use windows storage spaces or any other NAS software of your choosing!...you will have a capacity of 24 drives in the MD1200 just alone
  21. JBOD and passthrough are for this intended purpose the same thing. Um.. I dont know specifically what resources I could point you to, Im just sharing my experience... I just checked the hardware I have available home (All Dell PowerEdge) and I can tell you that Dell SAS 5/iR, Dell SAS 6/iR, Dell H200 support passthrough/jbod mode. If your card does not support passthrough/jbod like the H310 or the H710 you could try to flash it to IT mode...although doing that would generate some firmware errors... if you cant get a passthrough/jbod capable card, another alternative would be to present all your physical drives as RAID 0, the problem with this would be that is that ZFS wants full control of the drive which cant happen when a RAID controller has control of it in a RAID0. So if you have you start having S.M.A.R.T errors ZFS will never know. So you'll never get the warnings then have a drive fail and never know why. But I have ran this way before, no big deal as long as you keep your hardware monitoring through iDRAC enabled.
  22. That would be correct my friend. Most of the PERC cards support passthrough mode if I remember correctly.
  23. Well... thats why you put the card in passthrough mode, so the OS will see the drives as independent drives. What card did your T310 came with? if you do a quick google search of the models you can very easily find out if those support passthrough mode or not.
  24. So, I know that nv-link its supported for the Dell Rack servers, Ive deployed several times this type of products in specific DC solutions like VxRail or standalone R940 servers, also in some solutions forHPC like C4140. Ive never done it for a dell precision with rack format, but again I normally dont deal with the client side products, only enterprise. Best bet would be to reach out to your sales exec, if they do a part drill down of any of our nvlink ready solutions they could maybe figure out which is the bridge part number and sell one of those to you. Just for reference here is a link you can provide to them so they know what to quote. https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/dell-emc-dfd-nvidia-recommendation-servers-workloads.pdf
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