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Hello I have a Dell PowerEdge R620. I booted Ubuntu server off a usb and installed it on one of the hard drives. However upon reboot I am getting no bootable device found. Not sure where to go from here or what setting I am overlooking. Thanks for the help in advance
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Hello Linus Tech Tips community, I'm reaching out for advice on setting up a home server. I've recently acquired a Dell PowerEdge R430 equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 6-core CPUs @2.4Ghz and 32GB of DDR4 ECC Memory. The server has 8 hot-swappable 2.5-inch hard drive bays and my goal is to utilize them as a home NAS with redundancy. One of the challenges I am looking to overcome involves utilizing various hard drives of differing sizes. Ideally, I would like to incrementally increase the storage over time by swapping out any selected drive with a higher capacity one, without compromising the entire storage setup. Is this a feasible concept, and if so, could anyone provide some pointers on how to go about it? In addition to serving as a NAS, I would like to run a few services on the same machine, including a Plex server, Home Assistant, and possibly Nextcloud (or similar services). I understand that hosting multiple services concurrently could potentially present some issues. Could anyone shed light on what potential pitfalls I might encounter, and how best to avoid them? As for the software side of things, I plan on running Ubuntu and using Docker containers to compartmentalize the different services. However, I've come across information suggesting that running a NAS service in a Docker container might not be the best practice. Could anyone provide their experience or perspective on this? I appreciate any guidance on this matter and look forward to learning from everyone's experiences and insights. Thanks in advance!
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Hey folks! I really need your help making a pretty big decision. My situation is the following: I want to have a server for Proxmox (hypervisor 1), usage. I have the choice between building a server: https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/list/MKkHC6 (Please note i already have a gold, modular PSU, and plenty of drives), OR going with a refurbished dell server: Poweredge R530 (see screenshots for configuration setup for my budget, also.. sorry for it being in dutch). My perspective: Building a server, without worrying because of my 15 years of hardware experience, gives me MUCH more performance for the same price, at the cost of some features missing, like hotswap, aswell as idrac (dells version of ILO). The server shop is VERY well reviewed, and VERY trustable, and the guy on the phone i spoke, has been very helpful, which checks out with the reviews. The shop, is fairly close to me, so in case of something being wrong, or broken with the server, i could just drive there. Thank you very much for your input LTT community! Last but not least the screenshot of the server specs, would i go with this choice:
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I am trying to set up TrueNas Core on a Dell PowerEdge T330 but it says no drives are installed but I have 2 drives installed. There are no error messages and the drives both have green lights on them.
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I am building my own local server hosting company, and I need advice on what servers to stick with in the long haul. I do not have much money, but am starting a new job soon and don't have many expenses, so I will be able to put most of my money in to this. Still, though, my money is limited and so I am mostly looking in to older generation servers. I am specifically wanting to go with Dell PowerEdge servers because of the features of their iDRAC management system. I have decided to go with PowerEdge R430s, as they are pretty affordable for their power. I can source them for $200 for a barebones system, or $400-500 for a system with one or two low-end CPUs and a small amount of RAM. I plan on mostly maxing out these servers (40 cores w/ about 192-256GB of ram), so parts in them when I initially purchase them will likely be sold immediately or used only until I can afford to upgrade them. Again, I am starting this from scratch, so I don't need insane computing power, probably until a specific customer requires it and is willing to pay the premium. I have a few questions: Is going with servers so old a good idea? It allows me to begin at a time that I wouldn't otherwise be able to, and I believe that they have a comparable amount of compute power and capability as a slightly newer server would have. A full size rack costs about as much as as an upgraded r430, so for now they will be on the floor in a well ventilated area. At how many servers should I probably buy a rack? I was thinking before I bought my 4th one, or by the time I needed to buy a large switch. I am planning on ordering a rackmount switch, PDU, APC, and maybe a cheap KVM switch (Dell branded with adapters that allow for USB and VGA over ethernet cable). Do I need any other equipment for now? (I have a modem and router of course) At what point should I buy a dedicated backup server, and would it be okay if it was cheaper and a bit older? I think until then I will be using two separate arrays, one with high capacity drives, others with mid-capacity SSDs. The servers have 10 2.5" drive bays, which would allow for me to run something like 8 2tb SSDs and 2 8tb HDDs. I am planning on upgrading each server to 40 cores with 192-256gb of ram. Should I instead buy more servers with more modest amounts of power? (like two with 20 cores and 128gb ram, as opposed to one 40 w/ 256) This would also save costs, as I can buy about 3 10 core CPUs to every 20 core, and I could buy lower-capacity DIMMs, also saving a little bit of money) I know this is a rambly post, but finally, please don't say something like "people are better at this, or this will never take off" as I want to do this, it is my money, and hearing that would likely make me less prone to admitting failure if it happens anyways. -
I have recently purchased a PowerEdge R430 and had a few questions. The configuration I ordered contains one e5-2630v4, but I would like to upgrade it upon arrival. I am looking at getting either another e5-2630v4 with 10 cores (bringing the server to 20 cores spread across 2 CPUs at 2.2GHz (3.1 boost). My question is: Should I just get the $120 2630v4 or should I sell the one that is in there and buy an e5-2698v4 for $400-500 with 20 cores clocked at 2.2GHz (3.6 boost)? My knowledge tells me that the singular 20 core is best, especially since I will eventually be able to upgrade to two of them (and that is what I eventually want regardless of what I do now). I also believe that it is better to have all of the cores on one CPU, since there is less performance lost when the CPUs both have to communicate between each other and the chipset. I am planning to use this server to offer up virtualized computing to customers and so I need the core count to be higher than ten. Also, if I am running something like ESXi or linux with Docker, how many system resources should I allocate to the host OS/hypervisor. I was thinking about reserving two cores and 8gb of ram, or does ESXi do this on its own and not really need dedicated processor cores to manage these instances? Edit: The server also contains 32GB of ram, I believe DDR4@2133MHz. I plan on offering package deals of 4GB of ram per server core, so I would need to upgrade to 80GB (probably going to get 96 because it is an even multiple of that 32 that is already in the system). If I run only 1 CPU, that would give me just 6 RAM slots, meaning I would have to purchase 16GB sticks, and possibly having to sell the RAM that is already in the system, since these cheap ebay listers usually just stuff these servers full of small capacity sticks. I suppose regardless I should buy higher capacity DIMMs if I am planning on eventually upgrading the server to have 40 cores with 192Gb RAM or more.
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Hi All! I would love some advice regarding my home lab setup. Below is my current hardware and some features and functions I would like my home lab data center to accomplish! I have 3 Dell PowerEdge r710 and 1 Dell PowerEdge r410 a few of the servers have all HHD's and a few have SSD's. All except the r410 have RAID PERC controllers. One r710 has a Nvidia GT 1030. I also run a Mac OS server with an external RAID 5 hard drive using SMB for a file share. This is my main File share server and it gets the job done but it is less than ideal when I have all of these servers. I have yet to transfer all the data from the Mac server to one of my PowerEdge machines because of a lack of stability in my home lab "data center" setup. I have been playing around with Proxmox and setting up my home lab "datacenter" and experimenting with all the stuff you can do with hypervisors and servers. Everything that I have set up has not stuck or has been inadequate lacking a main feature or function that I'm looking for in my ideal home lab. That leads me to the functionality that I am looking for. For starters, a major requirement is running a hypervisor. Proxmox was recommended to me but I'm willing to learn something else if given a good enough reason. A major requirement is to passthrough all my GPU's to my VM's. I also need hot-swap capabilities for my storage because I can't afford to fill up all my r710's currently. I am willing to go to a software-defined storage model instead of utilizing PERC controllers. I would also like the ability to run storage pools and resource pools. In an ideal world, I also would like to tie the Mac Server into the mix using this storage as extra probably backup capacity. (every time I have tried to SMB connect it to Proxmox it fails.) Ideally, I also have some sort of replication that is occurring for redundancies. Can someone guide me in the right direction to accomplish these requirements? Am I using the wrong hypervisor? Do I need to get rid of the PERC controllers? What is the best way to configure these? I look forward to hearing the communities opinion and advice. Thanks in advance! ~Googs55
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I have a Poweredge T310. It's an older unit I got from my work. It came configured with a PERC, but I want to connect the drives directly to the motherboard and not use the PERC at all. There are six SATA data connections, as far as I can tell, so data is all set. Power is my problem. The PSU has a large 8-pin connector coming off it. This is plugged into an adapter that powers the combination data/power cables connecting the drives to the PERC. These cables are made in such as way that I can't use the power portion without using the data portion, so I can't use them to just power the drives. What I'd like to do is convert the PSU's 8-pin connector into four SATA power connections. That way, I can power the drives with that, connect them to the board for data, and be all set. The problem is that, while I know a fair amount about hardware, I'm not as good with servers. I have no idea if the adapter I want is standard, perhaps using the PCIe or some other common connector, or if it's a Dell special. Simply put, I need to convert an 8-pin PSU connector to four SATA power connectors, but I don't know what adapter(s) to look for. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
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I want to build a NAS for just basic home use. I have about 11 500GB WD HDD's (not NAS drives) laying around so I would like to have a NAS with at least 8 bays (3 spares). I have a drive large enough to make a backup of the entire NAS. I plan to use the NAS for pictures, videos, movies and computer backups, as well as my game library backup. (about 2TB worth of data). I would like decent transfer speeds to it so maybe an SSD cache or RAM Disk? I would like to use FreeNAS because its free, unless anyone else has any better OS ideas. Price point, I would like to be under $250 max I was thinking a Dell PowerEdge r520?
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I am thinking about building a new NAS. This is my first real NAS, so correct me if i'm wrong about certain things. I had made previous posts on the topic, but they are now outdated since I wasn't ready to purchase at the time. I am looking for a storage server mainly for backups and a plex server. I was thinking I could combine the two into something like a Dell PowerEdge r720XD but if someone thinks they should be separate, let me know. I have a mis-mosh of random drives so I think I need to use UNRaid as the main OS and then I could use CentOS for the Storage Server and Ubuntu for the Plex Server. For specs I was thinking 12 cores and 64GB+ of RAM. I think I need to allocate most of the resources to the Plex Server since there could be multiple people streaming off it at once, where as the Storage Server probably wont have more than 1 user accessing it at a time. I would like decent transfer speeds however. I was thinking I would need to add in an SSD for a L2 cache, but I saw people recommending to not use a L2 cache. These are the drives I have: 2x 1TB 7200rpm HDD 1x 320GB 5400rpm HDD 1x 1TB 5400rpm HDD 1x 750GB 7200rpm HDD 1x 500GB 7200rpm HDD These are all Desktop-Based HDD's and as they die I will replace them with NAS equivalent HDD's. My budget is $350, but there is a little wiggle room if necessary. The UNRaid License is not included in that cost, but if someone had a Free-Alternative that would be appreciated. The only thing that I can think of for other storage options are HP Proliants, but I don't know much about them. Is the Dell PowerEdge r720XD too old? All suggestions are appreciated too.
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I am having a problem with my PowerEdge R720 and do not have an idea why. I purchased the riser cable/adapter to power a GPU and have put an AMD R9 280 in. I can start the server perfectly fine and ESXi sees the GPU listed. Everything works until I try to power up a VM that has the card attached. The server ends up having hardware errors shown below. I have tried to move the GPU to a different slot but the issue is still present. For verification, I put an AMD HD6850 in the server and had zero problems including booting up a VM with that card passed through. I'm not sure if its a power issue or not. The server has dual 1100w PSUs so I wouldn't think power is the problem.
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Hello everyone! So i recently got a Dell PowerEdge R620 and a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb SSD and i didn't realize it was in ATA mode. I would like to switch to AHCI but am not exactly sure how. When the server starts it says something like AHCI BIOS isn't installed, but i looked on the dell downloads and couldn't find anything. And if i can get it into AHCI mode is there a way i can keep my Windows install or not? Thanks!
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Hello everyone! So I recently got a dell R620 and i threw in a GT730 i had lying around, i turned off the integrated video controller so it only uses the 730 and now when i turn it on, its all fine, but then once its booting it gets a little bit in then the screen just goes black. The monitor is still getting an input its just black. Didn't look into it alot but any help would be appreciated:) edit: i can get into the raid controller and the network management thing
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I recently picked up an R720 with e5-2695 V2s but because it's mostly used for game servers (which are usually only use a few cores) I was going to buy some 2667 V2s and sell the 2695 v2s for a similar price that I bought the 2667s for, I chose those CPUs because I checked passmark's multi CPU database and noticed that the 2667 V2s got similar (a little better) multi threaded and significantly better single threaded scores. (here is a comparison) I checked around for cinebench scores and found that the 2695s should get ~2600-2800cb stock and the 2667s should get ~2500-2600cb. But I tested my 2695 V2s before switching them out and got ~2600cb so on the lower end but seemed fine. Then when I swapped in the 2667 V2s I ran cinebench and only got ~2300-2350 which was lower than I expected so I ran passmark and got ~18000 which is almost where it should be but sinle threaded performance was awful, like 1300 points instead of the ~2000 points it should be... I know it's set to performance per watt profile in the BIOS And before you ask, I didn't run passmark on the 2695s. If I can't resolve this I will probably just go back to those and run more benchmarks... Any ideas? Edit: Windows High Performance mode helped a little but not much, did nothing to cinebench but passmark is now ~19k with ~1450 single core...
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Firstly, sorry, if this is in the wrong place but I wasn't sure which category this falls under. Anyone know a good setup guide for Exchange 2016/2019 for someone who has never dealt with it before? I had picked up a PowerEdge R420 SFF Refurbished for cheap in hopes to move my fathers company off of their old IMAP email service with GoDaddy Since its up for renewal and GoDaddy wants to charge him $800+ just to move over 10 users to their Exchange Hosting (not including the hosting cost of exchange). I personally hate godaddy becasue they try and get him to buy services he dosent need so im kind of fed up dealing with them. System config if it helps any: DELL PowerEdge R420 SFF 1U (x2) Intel Xeon E5-2450 @ 2.10ghz 32GB of Samsung ECC Registered Memory Dual Broadcom BCM5720 NetXtreme Gigabit NIC's (x2) 1TB DELL SAS 7.2K in RAID1 (x1) 1TB DELL SAS 7.2k (x1) 500GB WD SSD (os boot) DELL PERC H310 DELL iDRAC7 (x2) Redundant DELL 350watt PSU's Windows Server 2012 R2 64bit We currently have 2 static WAN IP address in use for the office so i don't know if we will need more (our server provider package includes 5 total) and I can get SSL Certs for the Server which is no problem. If i understand correctly you have to add server roles like active directory but my question is how would i be able to set up exchange on this server and incorporate his domain he already pays for, Set up MX Records, etc. Any help is appreciated!
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I bought a dell poweredge r610, in hopes to use it for a home server. It has no OS on it, so i dont know where to start. My goal is to have a server that can A.) Host a minecraft server, B.) Run with raid for drives, and C.) Be a storage server for home. I dont know much about this stuff, but the most important thing is the storage. I want to be able to drag and drop files via the NETWORK tab in Windows 10 file explorer. Any help would be appreciated. discord is a good form of communication for me, so mine is Sin Eater#5417. Thanks in advance!
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Hi, I wanted to put a gpu inside an old dell T710 server I got for few bucks, but I got some questions: 1- how do I mount it? The fans would be spitting air against the case normally as the pcie slot is up and not down, so there is little space, do I have to mount the gpu vertically? 2- how do I manage to power the gpu, since there are no cables to use inside the T710?
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Hello all, I am about to be getting a Dell Power edge with windows server essentials. I want this to be a File Server I can access from anywhere I want other than my local network, is it possible to do this with Windows Server 2016 Essentials? Again this is a File Server I want to use to hold projects and footage for my small company. Thanks for everyone's help.
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I would like to know how to run Linux on a dell poweredge R905 the system has 4x 4core amd opteron 8356 32Gb ram i have set the bios to boot to the install usb for Ubuntu automatically and when i turn it on it shows the Ubuntu boot screen for a few seconds and restarts, I’m not sure what to do any help would be appreciated ?
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Hi guys, I recently got a Dell Poweredge T710 server. I tried to install ubuntu and it's working perfectly but it's loud af (6 fans inside passive) and I would like to turn it into a full windows 10 PC. The specs are: -dual Xeon E5620 -16 GB of ram -1.5 TB of hard drive raid -max of 1.1 kw of power with 2 redundant power supplies That said, it comes with the full tower case and the only things I miss are: -the gpu -an ssd to speed everything up Do you think that spending around 60€ to replace the fans (to make it silent) and getting a good gpu would be okay? Could I be able to game on it?
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Hi everyone! I am new to this for first time with Linus Tech Tips which are my favorite on YouTube! So now point to my topic about setting up server in home to get thing up and running in processing so here’s what I need to make sure upgrade CPU, RAM, and Hard drives give enough room to keep it running. I have my own homemade rack mount, CAT5e wires running everywhere, custom router, Cisco equipment of networks, and everything in closet. Heres my current rackmount starting from top to bottom: Top - 24 ports CAT5e patch - Cisco SG300-28PP Switch - Vyatta 2600 (Lanner FW 8760 running untangle) - Desktop monitor and, Keyboard and mouse Middle - Dell Poweredge R610 running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Bottom - 2 Power stripes - CAT 5e intake - Arris CM8200 Other switch is in garage its SG300-10MPP There are two access point, one each in house and in garage, it’s Aironet 3502i dual band wireless N access point. I am looking forward to upgrade Wireless AC. I am not sure if I can choice to stay with Cisco or Ubnt. I only look for more stable, fast enough, roaming around, easy management, and of course, POE support. Two of access point I’m looking into are: Cisco WAP571 or Ubnt Unifi AC. I will be happy to hear from everyone a review those access point which are best and cheap I can find. Feel free to ask me opinion to make a change a better setup than current. So now for my Vyatta what I have, I upgraded in the following specification: CPU - Intel Xeon Quad X3450 4C/8H 2.66 GHz RAM: 16GB 4x 4GB DDR3-10600E UDIMM ECC unbuffers Storage: 1x 128GB SSD MLC (opinion for additional one more SATA, as RAID or ACHI) NIC: 8x Intel NIC OS: Untangle Firewall it running 300/30 providing by Cox but also included Verizon FiOS sitting as not active due switched to Cox to keep lower on bills. Also can upgrade to 1G/35 from Cox or 1G/1G from Verizon FiOS. Cox sucks (no rude but FiOS way better in my opinion due my parents switched it oh well.) My thought is Vyatta 2600 might retire anytime soon so I can get Dell R210 II to run pfsense or untangle I have not yet decision to choice. Reason why upgrade to R210 II cause they have AES supported and X3450 don’t dye old hardware. Now the fun part is storage server so they will be running as Plex Media Server, File Server, and possibly additional VPN, Ubnt, security camera, other server software in future. This storage server will be stay on 24/7 using low usage of power so here’s specification of Dell Poweredge R610. Dell Poweredge R610 CPU - 2x Intel Xeon Quad X5560 4C/8H RAM: 64GB DDR3-10600R ECC Storage: RAID 0 6x 300GB SAS 15K I am looking into upgrade hard drive so I’ve been looking into 6x 1TB or 6x 2TB but I’m not sure which best RAID I can use to storage all movies, personal files, pictures, backup, and many things on it. Also upgrade CPU to X5670 to handle plex media server to runs more than 4 maybe 6 at same time. Any idea would really appreciate it. Ive playing around with HP proliant DL360 G6 I got for $50, it got 1 cpu, X5560 and 4GB RAM and also one 500GB SATA. I will take some time to upgrade to dual X5670 and 64 or 72GB RAM and I am not sure if I can get 4x 1TB or 8x 500GB or 1TB depend on RAID system maximum of capacity. Also best RAID for those hard drive. For custom router, it will be always SSD at best performance and not much going on upgrade. For storage Server on R610 and DL360 G6, I only looking for 7,200 rpm or above hard drive at best but SSD are overkill in my opinion, HDD are longer lifespan than SSD at those day. For RAID setup, I want redundancy and performance at best instead RAID 0 cause it is risk for data loss. That’s why I need your option to find which suit my need. Thank you and looking forward to make this work as happily servers in closet to keep all of us happy, too!
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I am also thinking of getting a r410 with 2x 6 core cpu and 64gb ddr3 1333mhz ram ECC for me and my friends to host game servers on. I would also like to know if you could use a normal psu but i myself wouldn't need it. however to run all those VM's I recommend you go with 32gb 8 for Plex on ubuntu VM and 8gb for the rest, 8gb for Minecraft, Windows 10, and your media. should be perfect and the power consumption shouldn't really matter like you said at this point.