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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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Port Mapping - Dell FX2s Chassis with Cisco Nexus\FEX Switches

having some trouble with doing remote port mapping with dell FX2s chassis and fc430 blades\sleds. the goal is to figure out what are the ports in nexus switches\cisco fex that the dell chassis 10Gb sfp+ is connected to. as someone is familiar with…
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Dell R620 - problems with boot order

I have an "old" Dell R620 that in a previous life was used as a EXI host. The machine has a 1G SD card with which had the VMware software on it. I have now installed linux on the HD. The problem is that The boot order just has HD C: for disks i.e.…
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How to find the cause of a server kernel panic?

Our high-load server is in kernel panic. How can we identify the cause and correct it? It is a Dell PowerEdge R940 with 256GB ram and 20TB disk array with the root in a SSD disk. Linux CentOs 7 system. Trying to reboot I just can get the next two…
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Unable to Boot After Cloning Windows Server Datacenter 2022 to a New SSD

I have a Dell R720 server running Windows Server Datacenter 2022, and the disk containing the operating system has bad tracks that spread over time. To migrate the OS, I used DiskGenius to clone all valid data sectors from the damaged disk to a new…
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Is it a bug that Dell's iDRAC uses certificate subject "idrac-SVCTAG"?

Connecting to a Dell PowerEdge R7415 server using IDRAC 9 (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller), I see that the default certificate's subject is "idrac-SVCTAG". So all similar Dell servers would use the same subject to identify themselves. I…
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ESXi Secure Boot VIB VMware_locker_tools-light_12.0.6.20104755-20491463 does not have signed XML data

[root@VMkernelPortESXiHost:~] /usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py - c Secure boot CANNOT be enabled: All vib signatures verified. Failed to validate loaded tardisks: Errors: [ValueError] VIB…
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How to disable iDRAC status / alerts for absent PSU or input lost

I have a number of Dell PER740 servers running iDRAC 9 in a lab. As they are in a lab, I only need/want/have capacity for one power supply connected to each server. However, I cannot find a way to remove the alert/status that appear in the iDRAC…
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Dell PowerEdge R720XD - Fans Ramp Up When Video Card is Installed

I have a Dell PowerEdge R720XD with 2x Xeon E5-2640 v2 (16 cores total), 16 GB of RAM, and 2x 3 TB hard drives. I have Windows 10 running on the machine. When I connect a video card to the system, the fans are significantly louder than if the system…
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RAID Disk shows foreign status after being removed and inserted into the wrong slot

First of all forgive me that my understanding of Dell RAID system is limited. I have a dell PowerEdge server with PREC H330 Mini controller with 6 of the 8 slot having a physical drive (each 2.182TB) setup as RAID 5 (showing around 10TB with…
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How to activate HD indicator lights on Dell PowerEdge 710 in Linux

I have a particular drive that is failing (/dev/sdb) I need to replace the failed drive but I am not sure which it is... I should have documented what drives were in what slots and what their devs were but I did not and it will be very troublesome…
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Issue with idrac9 keyboard

I am using idrac9 virtualconsole (PowerEdge R440) with ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.4.0-65. The issue is, virtualconsole doesn't respond(across reboots) to keystrokes from virtual keyboard as well local keystrokes(my laptop) when the server is…
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Dell Poweredge R640 - System BIOS has halted

I'm running pfSense on a Dell Poweredge R640, but after upgrading to the latest bios, it has trouble booting. The attached picture says that LBR is not available. Any idea what that means and how to fix it? Thanks. Picture of BIOS crash
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How to remove a Raid 1 subgroup from a Raid 10 array?

I have a RAID 10 array with 3 subgroups of drives in RAID 1, like in the image below Raid 10 Is it possible to remove an entire subgroup (2 disks) without losing the entire Array? The RAID 10 will work normally with only 4 disks? If it is possible,…
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How are Serial Communications designed to be connected virtually on Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers?

Im trying to figure out what exactly can be configured by the first three settings on Dell PowerEdge R720 Server BIOS's Serial Communications Screen. Let me explain what (I think) I have understood: Disregarding all Input operations, there are or…
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Dell R640 onboard SAS and SATA connectors

Dell R640 / R740 system boards have seven or eight onboard SATA and SAS connectors, presumably usable for connecting HDDs & SSDs without a PERC controller. In the "System board jumpers and connectors" diagram of the Installation and Service Manual,…
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