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NIC ports going offline just by touching the cables slightly

A while ago we discovered an issue with most of our NICs in the data center - touching the cables just leads to the ports of the NICs going offline for a couple of seconds. All the NICs are Broadcom or Intel, all bought with servers or separately at…
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What does "SSC WriteBack" mean

When I dump LSI RAID 9260-8i configuration by: /storcli /c0 show all the Supported VD Operations section looks like: Read Policy = Yes Write Policy = Yes IO Policy = Yes Access Policy = Yes Disk Cache Policy = Yes Reconstruction = Yes Deny Locate =…
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Broadcom's NetXtreme II 5709 on Ubuntu 16.10 4.10 kernel fails w/ code model kernel does not support PIC mode

Is there a way to work with the patch suggested here to get this to work? I downloaded the latest drivers from QLogic (who bought Broadcomm). Their support reply was: As of April 13, 2015 we must refer all requests for downloads back to the…
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Dell M620 Xenserver network issue

I've got a really strange problem running Xenserver 7.0 (tried 7.1 as well) on a Dell M620 with BCM57810 network card. The whole setup is fine and running flawlessly with no traffic. I've got a Windows Server 2016 running and can access it with RDC…
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CentOS - Raid Speed Below Single Disk

I'm encountering some odd behavior and wondering if anyone has ideas what would be causing it. Setup: 2x 2.4GHz Opteron quad cores, 8GB RAM, 2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA2 drives, with Clean minimal CentOS 7 install running no workloads (yet) and nothing…
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server 2008r1 slow file transfer in one direction

I have a problem of slow file transfer in one direction on a 3 of my servers with 2008 on them. the test i have done is to copy a 400Mb file from a PC to 1 server takes approx 30 secs if i then try to copy it back to the PC it estimates it as taking…
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Dell Poweredge 860 with CentOS eth0 link is down. Trying to configure a static IP

I decided to recycle an old server, Dell Poweredge 860 Service Tag: B21N5F1, that had vyatta (a what use to be open-source firewall os) firewall installed on it. I went ahead and did a clean install of CentOS 6.6 (64 bit) via a bootable usb. I have…
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Windows Server 2003 DC hangs after network drivers update

Earlier today, we attempted to update the Broadcom BCM5716C network drivers on a Windows Server 2003. (Dell PowerEdge T310, FWIW). Since then we have not been able to boot the server in any normal mode. Safe Mode works. Safe Mode with Networking and…
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Broadcom iSCSI HBAs missing in vSphere

I've got 4 Cisco UCS C210 M2 servers, each with a Broadcom NetXtreame II BCM5709 Quad-port adapter in it. They are all running vSphere 5.1 U1. On one the servers, the Broadcom ports show up as both vmnics, as well as iSCSI HBAs. On the other 3, I…
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Dell SBS 2008 losing connectivity

We have a Dell PowerEdge T300 with Intel Xeon X3323 2.50GHz and 16gig RAM runningWindows Server 2008 FE, SP 1 (SBS 2008) with a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet. About once a week, usually when network traffic is high, the network card goes to…
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compile lastest bnx2 driver on debian squeeze

I want to upgrade the bnx2 network card driver in a Dell Power Edge R410. I downloaded the latest driver version from the broadcom website. If I want to compile the driver it fails with the following errors: make make -C bnx2/src …
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Broadcom storcli64 - add unconfigured good disk as hotspare

as a disclaimer, I am not particularly well versed with storcli so please bare with me. I have an existing RAID configuration that I took over from a colleague who since left. One disk failed and I have managed to bring it back online and…
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sfp and sfp28 compatibility

I have gotten a server which has "Broadcom 57454 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter" When I connect it to a switch port which is sfp the link status on the server is reported as active and it even sends packets for the DHCPDiscover but the…
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Checking if NIC controller has SR-iov capability

I'm trying to use SR-IOV with openstack, and in order to check if the NIC available on my servers support this technolony I did the following: (venv) [root@controller share]# lshw -c network -businfo Bus info Device Class …
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Need some clarification on a NIC functionality on a Dell Poweredge r610

Quick question. I'm trying to understand the NIC functionality of this server. NIC specs from manual: My question is, do the two broadcom controller chips provide fail-over redundancy? For example, is it design intention that if a controller chip…
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