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Cannot disable DHCP on Debian 11

I have an IBM BladeCenter E with Debian 11 install on a blade server, and I am trying to set up the network with two interfaces (provided on each blade server): one for local network for NFS and one for occasional internet access with static…
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BL460c Gen9 "disconnected NIC", not connect until I reset OA

I have 3 C7000 blades enclosures that we used with BL460c Gen8 without any problems, but we are changing them for BL460c Gen9 and some blades don't connect it network until I reset OA. All blades are using 536FLB FlexibleLOM with the last SPP (May…
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Are blade server cores pooled?

Windows server software versions, vary in how many CPU sockets that they support. So if you have a normal server with 4 CPU sockets. If each CPU is a quad core (belive there is talk of 6 or 12 core) then that system has 16 cores to call on. Do blade…
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Control or reduce fan speed of Dell R820

I recently bought Dell R820 from Amazon. It has 192gb of RAM, 4x Xeon CPUs but Dell Idrac is not working anymore after update firmware from OS. Fan's go full blast and it's very noisy. I tried all fixes from dell's web site suggestions. But no…
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Unable to boot unexpected NMI at 0012:7AA3

I have an old IBM blade built in 2005. It is the HS20 blade. Currently, the boot screen of the blade is reporting a NMI fault at 0012:7AA3. The blade then fails at booting and restarts only to fail again and restart again. I have attempted to…
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Is it possible to link more than 7 HP blade enclosures (c7000)?

I have 4 enclosures c7000 per rack. All enclosures inside a rack are interlinked. I log into the first enclosure of a rack and can oversee all interlinked too. Is it possible to interlink more than 7 enclosures? Like 20 or 40?
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What's the purpose of local storage hdd in Blade servers with virtualization?

I'm designing lab with a Dell M1000e and 3 M620 blade servers. Each blade server has 2 local HDD of 130GB on RAID 1. My first attempt is to install ESXi in an SD card or USB key so my local storage is empty. The question, what's the purpose of local…
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Going the colocation route - Thoughts or suggestions on plan?

We currently host around 200 customers website with cpanel at a datacenter we rent dedicated servers from. We also host two sites that do around 5 to 6m unique a day, which is distributed across 3 servers. Outside of that, we have 2 nameservers and…
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Are Rack-Servers always loud?

So, I'm thinking about getting a rack server (one blade) at home for stuff like gameserver, rendering, webserver, cloud etc but I'm worried about the loudness of the fans. I've only seen one single server rack in real life and it was pretty loud…
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Stripe SSDs for Host cache in VMWare

I have some blades that management purchased some SSD's to do host caching. Currently, we have raid 1 SD cards for our hypervisor. I need to add these SSD's in raid 0 so they can quickly host cache. I know what to do in VMWare, however I cant figure…
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Intel modular server - blinking yellow led - clear,confirm the warning

Masters, Today we got tow warning from intel modular server, as you see below. How to clear this warning and how to stop warning led blinking? (i'm sure there is no problem, but can't clear/confirm the warning.) Thank you ! Host Name: cbcmm IP…
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How to determine M1000e CMC IP address from CLI of an installed blade?

I have a Dell M1000e enclosure hosting 16 Dell M620 blade servers. Each of the blade servers has it's own DRAC, accessible by its own IP. In addition, the two CMCs in an active/passive configuration inside the Dell M1000e have a DRAC connection. I…
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HP Blade System Won't Come Up

I recently asked a question on here regarding our HP Onboard Administrator not responding in a C7000 Blade Enclosure. I was advised it was faulty and after contacting our 3rd line support company was sent a replacement and advised I would need to…
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XenServer - Removing Blade Server from Chassis

I've got to remove one of our PowerEdge M620 blade servers from our M1000e Chassis server to look at the hardware on the server, mainly the mezzanine card installed. Will removing the blade server from the chassis remove the server from the…
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Migration of Win OS between two blade servers

Hi we have a Physical or blade server where we have installed win server 2008. It's configuration has 256Gb RAM. I wanted to know can we migrate the existing server along with OS to another server which has 512Gb RAM.or do we need to build the 512Gb…
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