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PowerEdge is the name that Dell has given to its server product line.

The PowerEdge line of server systems is Dell, Inc.'s most well known server product line, which it has been producing since 1996. Dell has made PowerEdge servers in various form factors including freestanding, rack-mounted, and blade formats, using either Intel or, more recently, AMD processors. Questions with this tag should be related to these servers.

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Dell R510 vs R710

the Dell R510 and R710 can both hold regular configurations (e.g. X5650, 24 GB RAM, etc.) and these usually come out to about the same price. Is there a particular reason why one would choose the R510 over the R710 or vice versa? There really…
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Differences between HW RAID and ZFS

Background I'm installing Proxmox Virtual Environment on a Dell PowerEdge R730 with a Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730 Mini Hardware RAID controller and eight 3TB 7.2k 3.5" SAS HDDs. I was contemplating using the PERC H730 to configure six…
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When to use X2Apic Mode?

I am setting up a new server (PowerEdge T130) for a small business, running Windows Server Essentials 2016. It will be used as a file server, AV, domain controller and has some SQL databases. I know usage ideally shouldn't be mixed, but it will have…
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How to connect two Dell storage arrays to a to a Dell Poweredge server (daisy chain vs direct)?

I purchased two Dell MD1000 storage arrays together with a Dell Poweredge 1950 server and need help setting them up (I am a complete novice to SAN/iSCSI). The Poweredge server has two SAS SFF-8470 connectors. Should the two storage arrays (which…
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E3-1240 v5 cpufreq-info says: "no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU"

We just got a Dell server (PowerEdge R330) with a E3-1240 v5 CPU: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 94 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v5 @ 3.50GHz stepping : 3 microcode …
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What does "shared mode" really mean on a ninth-generation and later Dell server DRAC?

We have a number of Dell PowerEdge servers, ninth generation and later. According to Using the LAN and Serial Interfaces in Ninth-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers: As an enhancement over previous generations of Dell PowerEdge servers, shared NIC…
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ZFS on enterprise RAID pass-through, and ZFS on FreeBSD root

We've been running ZFS on top of a single hardware RAID on dell poweredge for years. I know most people are against this, but the snapshot/clone, compression and flexible partition of ZFS served us very well. Whenever a drive dies, a dell…
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w1228 romb batt < 24h

I just got this message on the front panel of one of our servers, a Dell PowerEdge 2900. I believe this means that the RAID controller card battery is nearly dead. The question that I have is what happens when the battery runs flat? Will the server…
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Dell PERC 4 (PowerEdge 2850): Unresolved configuration mismatch between disks(s) and NVRAM

We had an extended power outage (almost four hours); now I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server which is giving me this error (from a PERC 4e/DI) on boot up: All drives are listed in the PERC configuration menu: The failed drive does not show any…
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Ideal way to deploy SSL to blades/chassis

I have about 14 Dell M1000e chassis and corresponding 224 blades. I just received a wildcard SSL cert, but don't want to manually visit each administrative page to upload the cert/key. I understand the racadm command can do this for me, but the…
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Any trick to connect to the DRAC console from a mac?

I have two Dell PowerEdge 2950 with DRAC5 cards, and I'm a mac user, running Snow Leopard. Is there any trick to benefit from the remote console capability? I am open to any suggestion, including fancy browser, custom made Java VM, any VM with…
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What is the "bezel" and why does Dell charge 15€ for it?

I'm in the process of shopping around for a new server and came across the "1U Rack Bezel" option for Dell's PowerEdge™ R310 server. The only hint is the german heading "Frontblende" which seems to imply that it is just an aesthetic choice. So the…
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Install 2.5" SSD drives into PowerEdge 2950

I have a PowerEdge 2950 (not III) rack-mounted server with a 3.5" SAS backplane. I'd like to put one or two Intel X25-M drives into it for hosting of a few virtual servers on faster disk. Can this be done? Is there hardware that would allow me to…
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How to open R410 chassis

I just got a brand new R410 server with a single SATA disc, and want to add two 2TB dics to it. But.. a rather silly problem is preventing me: I cannot open the chassis. How is the chassis opened? The "cover latch" is set to unlocked, but the top…
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Problems with my poweredge 2970

The company I work for just bought 3 PowerEdge 2970 servers and they all have the same problem. Is this server worth buying or are the problems that come with it make it not worth it? Are there alot of issues with using an AMD processors (it's an…
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