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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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How can I regain access to a RAID volume that I deleted from PERC in the Dell Life Cycle controller?

I'm using a Dell PowerEdge R820 with PERC H710 adapter I had RAID 0 configured across two 1TB SSDs, Drive A and Drive B. I recently bought a 5TB HDD, Drive C. Today, I was attempting to create a RAID 0 volume for Drive C in the LifeCycle controller,…
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RAM placement issue on R710

I have 16GB RAMs, each 2GB. I don't know how to place them in order. Please help me out. It shows error when I go to System Setup about DIMMs being incorrect.
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ESXi does not show drives for second RAID controller with NVMe drives

I got a second RAID controller (AVAGO 9440-8i) to put in my Dell T440 server (first RAID controller is a H740P). I got the Broadcom U.2 enabler cable and two WD Gold 2TB drives. I've updated ESXi, the lsi_mr3 package, the whole original Dell-system…
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SUSE Linux ES 15 SP1 rebooting, how to find out why

I am managing a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 system and it will randomly reboot. A few months ago I opened a case with Dell support and we upgraded all firmware available for the system. The system was running fine for 2 months. In the past 2…
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You have not defined a root partition / which is required for installation of Centos to continue

I am facing the following issue while doing an automated installation of Centos7 with kickstart.cfg I used the following options in the kickstart file zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel logvol / --vgname=cl --name=root --fstype=ext4 --percent=60…
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iDRAC: Does racadm have some kind of "echo" command?

I'm writing some scripts to automate the interaction with racadm sessions. Sometimes I need to show some info messages to the users, like Will retry in 30 seconds. For now I just use an unknown command like this: $ ssh admin@idrac-ip-addr racadm>…
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ESX hosts crash within same vcenter cluster

I have a vcenter cluster of 12 ESX hosts (ClusterA) and another cluster of 3 ESX hosts (ClusterB). All of these are a mix of poweredge r620s and r630s. Some of the hosts have hardware errors that can be seen in the iDRAC logs and front LCD screen…
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Raid 5 with hot spare (17+1) somehow became Raid 5 without hot spare (18 + 0)? (Dell Poweredge T640)

So recently we have been having strange RAID storage server issues. The most recent issue I have no idea what could be going on. config is Raid 5; 17 + 1 (17 disk volume + 1 dedicated hot spare) A disk flagged itself as 'removed'. As we're on an…
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Dell PowerEdge R410 freezing up

A PowerEdge R410 that was working fine for years started freezing up last week. It's running Ubuntu 20.04 and sometimes it will come back. When it did on a most recent freeze, the dmesg log shows the following: [ 328.721635] mgag200 0000:08:00.0:…
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Dell R815 power button does not turn off

I have powered my R815 on/off using DRAC. That works fine. But today I had some physical maintenance, and wanted to use the power button. I can turn on the server using the button, but I cannot turn the server off. I have held the button for 30…
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Changing RAID1 HDDs (Dell PowerEdge R430) to another identical server

I'm new with server configuration and infrastructure. If I have two identical servers (PowerEdge R430), one for spare without HDDs  (call it S1), and another online with the HDDs (S2). If I remove the HDDs from S2 and place it on S1, will it work…
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Does the Dell PowerEdge R240 support booting from M.2 NVMe drives?

Did anybody try whether the Dell PowerEdge R240 (or the 14th generation in general) supports booting from M.2 NVMe disks inserted through some (non-Dell) PCIe-M.2-adapter card? Dells manual doesn't mention it, unfortunately. I know that older models…
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DELL VRTX - M620 Blade - Both NICs "Unidentified Network"

I have a DELL VRTX with two M620 Blades. I have an issue with one of the Blades. Both NICs come up with "Unidentified network". I got the server 2.5 years ago and run Hyper-V on the Blades. It works without an issue but about 3 weeks ago I started…
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Dell R530 Broadcom NetXtreme tg3 nic limited to 12 MBytes/sec

I have an older Dell R530: Manufacturer Dell Inc. Model PowerEdge R530 CPU 16 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz Memory 63.78 GB it has 8 NIC's, 3 of which are tg3, Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720's: vmnic0 0000:02:00.0 tg3 Up …
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Embedded SATA on my PE R440

I purchased a PowerEdge R440 with embedded SATA and am wondering is it possible to set up a different RAID with the drives in them? i.e. RAID 1 for the 480GB drives and RAID 6 for the 12TB drives or do I need to have the hardware (H730P)
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