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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
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VMware Player cant find .vmdk Files anymore
BloodKnight7 replied to Noah0302's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
have you tried creating a new vm and just attatching the old vmdk drives? -
Prepare Dell Optiplex for 24/7 usage
BloodKnight7 replied to freakynoid's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
R720 Media Server Setup Help
BloodKnight7 replied to UltimaStealth's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
New setup on enterprise server
BloodKnight7 replied to banana21297's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
You plan the server to do what role(s) exactly? just a NAS? -
ESXi help! VMs are not loading up..
BloodKnight7 replied to Sir Asvald's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
ESXi help! VMs are not loading up..
BloodKnight7 replied to Sir Asvald's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
ESXi help! VMs are not loading up..
BloodKnight7 replied to Sir Asvald's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
you up and running? -
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
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Virtual Machine crashing on startup
BloodKnight7 replied to BOBWARPATH's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
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?
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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.
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Dell R620 Disk Raid Performance Issues
BloodKnight7 replied to Lurick's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
yeah... its unfortunate that ESXi is limited in this specific regard, you have to depend on that hardware RAID -
Dell R620 Disk Raid Performance Issues
BloodKnight7 replied to Lurick's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
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.
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IT Procurement looking for Corporate Solution
BloodKnight7 replied to Allukos's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
Cheap reliable 16TB+ Nas needed
BloodKnight7 replied to Calranthe's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
Shoot...lol... under what scenario is filling an enclosure with hard drives is cheap? -
Cheap reliable 16TB+ Nas needed
BloodKnight7 replied to Calranthe's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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 -
Dell poweredge t310 with truenas
BloodKnight7 replied to Cammy's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
Dell poweredge t310 with truenas
BloodKnight7 replied to Cammy's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
That would be correct my friend. Most of the PERC cards support passthrough mode if I remember correctly. -
Dell poweredge t310 with truenas
BloodKnight7 replied to Cammy's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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. -
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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