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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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Raid 1(Mirroring) in Dell Poweredge 2850

I need to setup a Raid 1 in Dell Poweredge 2850 Server. It has 2 scsi 73 gb disks, i am trying with Dell Server asisstant but i can't see no disk utilities. any idea ?
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Dell PowerEdge R410: System asks to press F1 or F2

We just installed an option card (PERC 6/i) into a brand-new Dell PowerEdge R410 and now the system does no unattended startup but instead asks me to press F1 to continue or F2 to enter system setup after printing the following message on the…
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Dell PowerEdge 860 always does PXE boot

We bought a Dell PowerEdge 860 and installed Windows Server 2008 standard. So far so good. Now everytime the server reboots, it tries to PXE boot and hangs on cannot find pxe bootable, press f1 to continue or f2 to setup. Iried all the settings in…
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Dell PE R710 Lifecycle Controller

How would one use the dell lifecycle controller on the new R710 Servers ? I have seen demos on youtube and it can install linux, windows from there without inserting the installation discs ? I am on the same LAN as the server and have setup iDrac…
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Poweredge Sc1425 wont boot after install

I'm trying to install ESXi 4 on a PowerEdge SC1425. I have the Bios set as SATA drives as opposed RAID as the install doesn't detect the raid, I've told it to install on drive 0 and everyhting appears to install OK but when it reboots and I remove…
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Dell r710 idrac6 is not visible/reachable on network

I got a (new) r710 server, and tried setting up idrac6, i reset to default and changed the ipv4 settings to an ip in my network, i also tried dhcp, i set up a root password, and still there will be no idrac on my network, no web interface, and even…
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How to set up OMSA on Dell T610 with Debian 12 based OS (Proxmox VE 8.0)

Dedicated server noobie here. I have a proxmox server on a new (to me) Dell T610. I have a couple of disks in a RAID array that I will expand soon, but for that I read that the Ctrl+R RAID BIOS is not capable of doing that and I will need OMSA on…
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Attempting to update iDRAC firmware with racadm, getting error "RAC923 : The file path is too long"

Per title, I'm attempting to update iDRAC on an R720 server running RHEL7. I obtained the correct firwmare file by going to Dell's support site, entering my service tag, then filtering down to the iDRAC and Lifecycle controller firmware update. I…
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Which disk is in which hard drive bay

I have a Dell Poweredge R710 with 6 drive bays (and 6 hard drives). There is a DELL PERC H700 raid controller card in the system. I mirrored all of the drives so they appear as 3 separate disks. I'm seeing messages like this in event viewer: The…
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Installing VMware ESXi 4.0 on Dell 1950: Cannot open vmkboot.gz

I am trying to install VMware ESXi 4.0.0 U1 on a Dell 1950 server via a bootable CD-ROM. I keep getting this error right at the start: Cannot open vmkboot.gz I checked that the CD-ROM drive is not to blame by installing Debian Etch using that…
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New drive Poweredge T340

Maybe a dumb question. In order to install a extra 3.5" drive I must shutdown the server and install? Or can I pop-out a front bay and install while powered on? And later format the new drive.
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perccli: How to check the pdcache status for a virtual drive?

The perccli utility (doc page) has an option to set the "pdcache" option, where pdcache means physical drive cache (although I can't find where that's actually defined). From the docs, the syntax is: perccli /cx/vx set…
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After disk reinstallation 2 disks in RAID1 became foreign // PowerEdge r720

I'm a newbie in DELL servers, so need your advice. First of all, we have PowerEdge r720 with 4 HDDs, two 2TB SAS with RAID 1 and two SAS 1TB in RAID 1 too. After the 1 of the HDD was plugged out and plugged in the slot, it's activity LED was no more…
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Why does my Dell server BIOS asks for the BIOS password during a regular reboot?

I have a Dell PowerEdge T350 server. I enabled TPM and Secure Boot as well. For these I needed to specify a BIOS password (which I would have done anyway). What startles me is that the server keeps asking for a BIOS password at every freakin boot,…
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Swapped in new SAS drive, RAID still shows degraded, what next?

I need to replace a failed RAID 1 drive on an ancient PowerEdge 2950. The old drive was throwing amber warning lights with the LED showing error 1810. I have a new SAS drive installed and the controller appears to see it. There are two solid green…
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