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Joe James

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    Joe James got a reaction from TerraCraft64 in Pc Wont Post After Changing EUFI Boot Settings   
    Haha, the battery needs to stay out long enough for the capacitors to empty. Unplug your computer pull the battery, push the power button, wait 30 seconds to 1 minute, and you're good to go.
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    Joe James reacted to BobVonBob in Pc Wont Post After Changing EUFI Boot Settings   
    You can't just swap to booting off UEFI if your OS was installed in Legacy mode.
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    Joe James got a reaction from TheGlenlivet in HELP. Dell r510 OS Deployment   
    Fixed. The problem was my stupidity, the solution was my education. BIOS only supports a 2TB drive, oops. Needed UEFI.
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    Joe James reacted to TheGlenlivet in HELP. Dell r510 OS Deployment   
    https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln129177/how-to-install-the-operating-system-on-a-dell-poweredge-server-os-deployment?lang=en
     
    Have you followed these instructions?  
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    Joe James reacted to Windows7ge in HELP. Dell r510 OS Deployment   
    This can be a common issue with server and some desktop platofrms where booting to USB doesn't always work. From my own experience the most successful application to use to create the bootable media has been DD. On Windows Rufus is also pretty good but it has its shortcomings.
     
    Worst comes to worst you can cheat by installing the OS on a different computer then moving the drive over to this one. I've done this before with great success.
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    Joe James reacted to Windows7ge in Dell r510 Nas set-up.   
    If you want to get technical Hardware RAID is still Software RAID the difference being what controller/processor manages the array.
     
    If the RAID controller supports IT mode or you use an HBA the drives will appear to the OS as their independent disks. From there you can use whatever OS supported RAID you like. Or no RAID at all if you are so inclined.
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    Joe James reacted to Windows7ge in Dell r510 Nas set-up.   
    If you're going for software raid what do you plan on using?
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    Joe James reacted to NelizMastr in Dell r510 Nas set-up.   
    The LSI 9207-8E could be a good solution. I have the internal variety (the 9207-8i) in my server and that works rather well, even with SSDs.
    You could also get a 9211 as you're limited to PCIe 2.0 anyway, Dell also has this card rebranded as the Perc H310.
     
    You'll also need two external SAS cables to connect the shelf to the server, but that's a given.
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    Joe James reacted to Jarsky in Office Video Server   
    Not overkill at all when it comes to connecting storage to application services, just make sure you get a managed switch so you can create a LAG/Port-Channel for the connection. 
    It depends on your setup but for a hardware RAID10 yes you can. If you require more disk space and have a spare PCI-E slot you can also use an external HBA to connect a diskshelf (Dell have a range called PowerVault) to extend the number of supported drives. 
     
    The advantage to your R510 over my R710's is that its only something like 26" deep, so assuming thats your deepest server, you have a wide range of cabinets in that depth. 
    So thats 7U plus possibly space for a PDU, KVM, etc...i'd be looking at a 12RU-18RU cabinet. Personally I think an open rack like this one from StarTech is great: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/dp/B00P1RJ9LS
     
    For a rack it's really hard to go past a Arista DCS-7050S-64 second hand. 48 x SFP+ ports which you can use 10gbe copper tranceivers, 4 x QSFP+ ports for 40Gbps (e.g Infiniband), and managed so you can create LAG's (LACP), do VLAN's, etc.....
     
     
    Personally i'd keep the PowerEdge as storage and use it either as a hardware RAID with Linux or if you wanted to go Software, consider using an HBA card and going ZFS on FreeNAS. The other advantage of FreeNAS is if you wanted to use a Hypervisor like ESXi, then you can easily create iSCSi targets through the FreeNAS GUI for creating your VMWare Datastores. If you create say 5 disk RAIDZ2 vdev's, then you can easily expand your zpool 5 disks at a time also. If you do 4 disk Striped mirror vdev's, then you can expand your zpool 4 disks at a time. 
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    Joe James reacted to GDRRiley in Office Video Server   
    microtick has some models. I'd probably go 40gb
    MikroTik CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+RM would give dual 40gb quad 10gb sfp+ and 24 1gb
    MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+RM 16 port sfp+ unit. CRS309-1G-8S+IN is an 8 port
    CRS312-4C+8XG-RM 8 cat, 4sfp+/cat
     
    theres others but most of these are sub 500$ and manged Level 2
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