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All disks show as Unconfigured Bad (UBAD) on RAID controller

Before starting, I will say I would appreciate help but really I need to hear from someone that has experienced this issue and how they solved it because the obvious and go to solutions are not working (believe me I have tried for a week). With that…
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Trying to boot a diskless server to Windows 2012 using iSCSI and Differencing VHDs

We are in the middle of a big VMware to Hyper-V migration at the moment. Part of this process is going to be changing some of our existing ESXi servers to Hyper-V. These ESXi servers don't have hard drives installed, ESXi is installed on a 1GB SD…
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Number of TX and RX Buffers in Windows Server 2008 R2

I have noticed both broadcom and Intel NICs allow you tune the number of transmit and receive buffers (A Higher number of buffers will cause more memory usage). How do these buffers work: What is their size? What is the relation of buffers to TCP…
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Does disabling VT-d and interrupt remapping break MSI-X?

So I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 server running Debian Jessie which according to some docs has a faulty chipset: https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7014344 (Intel 5500 rev 13). The provided shell test confirms the presence of this chipset:…
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Limited Connection - Network Issue

I'm having issues with a Windows Server 2012 - Dell PowerEdge R300. Every time the server restarts the network adapter gets limited connection and does not work. I have to locally disable the network adapter and re-enable and it works normally until…
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Dell 12G R720 Hyper-V host virtual/physical NIC stops working

On the host 1 physical adapter is plugged into our network, on host itself I have Hyper-V role. I have created a external switch and binded it to the physical Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, box is checked for "Allow management operating system…
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How can I manage kernel modules built from source in Debian?

I am installing Debian squeeze on a brand-new Mac Mini, and the Broadcom NIC in it only works with the latest tg3 module from Broadcom. I can build this module easily enough, but performing a manual build and overwriting the tg3.ko that comes with…
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Broadcom HT1100 SATA controller not working properly with 1TB drives

I've been using RHEL distro's for several years and always managed to find the answers until now. I know this is more of a hardware issue, but I've been working on this for over a week and trust Linux and the IT community to help more then HP. I…
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VMware - Broadcom 1000Gbps NIC does not link at 100Mbps to a Cisco switch port

Today we've stumbled on a very awkward situation with our VMWare Server. The server is with ESX 3.5 that has a 1Gbps NIC. We bought a brand new managed Cisco Linksys switch with 10/100Mbps interface ports but when we plugged the cable in one of the…
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Debugging slow SMB packets from a specific desktop client

I'm having some serious problems locating a slowdown, and I hope you could assist me with this. We have an office network with ~50 clients and a main file server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (SP1). For one specific client (Windows 7, SP1)…
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Packet loss between Broadcom NetXreme NIC's on different hosts

I've got any interesting problem where I am getting packet loss between multiple servers in the same network. This is happening to about 15 hosts but I'll condense it to just three below. Firstly some topology. Identical on all machines. hosta -…
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BACS Statistics

There are two statistics from the BACS I am wondering if I should be concerned about: They are Out of Recv. Buffer and Rx. Packet Discarded. It looks like Out of Recv. Buffer is the cause of all the discard? In general will this just cause a TCP…
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Broadcom QLogic 57800 shows up as two adapters in ESXi 6

I don't have another quad card as a reference, but the Broadcom QLogic 57800 is a 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE quad card, which has sequential MACs and same PCI slot, but shows up as two dual adapters in ESXi 6. Is this normal? I'm seeing other oddities…
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Jumbo frames (mtu 9000) on Debian 7.10 servers with BCM57800 NIC (bnx2x)

I'm working on 2 servers under Debian 7.10 with Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57800 1/10 Gigabit ethernet. I have done the following for both servers: ethtool -g eth0 Ring parameters for eth0: Pre-set maximums: RX: 4078 RX Mini:…
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ipSystemStatsOutDiscards increments, but not the interface specific counters?

Here's an odd one. I noticed that one of my nameservers was complaining about some outbound congestion, and that it seemed to correlate incrementing interface discards on my outbound path. Open and shut, right? When I looked closer though, I noticed…
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