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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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"Unsupported module type was detected" during boot of Intel X520/I350 card in Dell PowerEdge R630

I've purchased a Dell PowerEdge R630 with an integrated Intel X520/I350 (2x SFP + 2x RJ45) network card. I've setup the server locally (on a 1G RJ45 network) to test that everything worked as expected and it did; everything worked, no error…
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PowerEdge R320 iDRAC Initialization Error

I've had an R320 running happily for the past 9 months as a backup server. I decided it was time to make some changes which called for a fresh install of Windows, so I shut the server down plugged in a USB with Windows Server loaded on it. After…
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Dell PowerEdge T-620 - Choosing Memory Modes in the BIOS

I'm trying to configure the Memory Mode, in the BIOS, of a Dell PowerEdge T620 with dual processors: Owner's Manual | Technical Guide The system has 384GB of DDR3 LRDIMM Memory and I'm able to choose between any of the following modes: Optimizer…
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Dell Poweredge R710 “System Services update required”

We just bought a refurbished R710 and upon trying to boot into the system services, it said that system services was disabled, so we booted into the iDRAC6 configuration utility and enabled the system services. Now, when we tried rebooting and going…
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Set boot device / access console (Dell iDRAC 8) using modern Linux

I have a Dell PowerEdge R730xd which I can only access using the iDRAC 8 web interface. I'm unable to launch the Java (JNLP) virtual console, which might be necessary to fix the issue. I'm also unable to access the SSH feature of the iLOM due to…
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Dell H730 in HBA mode - Why are there issues with performance and SMART data?

I recently purchased a Dell R730xd that came with an H730 RAID card. I would like to bring an existing 6 disk ZFS pool to this server as well as create an additional 6 disk hardware RAID. In my research, I have read that the H730 DOES support HBA…
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Running Ubuntu Server with GUI Desktop Environment | Dell PowerEdge R710 II

Let me start off by saying I’m completely new to using / running servers and I’m currently 2nd year CS & Business student in DCU, Ireland. I recently developed a program for automating sales invoicing at my work by using Python and AutoIT scripts,…
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iDrac7 can't watch boot sequence

I have a few oldish Dell PowerEdge servers which I'm planning to recommission as DR servers. I'm able to access one of them currently via it's idrac card and the virtual console seems to work ok. That said I'm not able to do any bios / disk related…
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How to update PERC H700 when used in a Dell R410 server?

I have a PERC H700 running in a Dell R410 server which works fine. However when I try to update the firmware using the Dell package I get a message "This update package is not compatible with your system..." I tried using the Lifecyle Controller to…
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HP NC523SFP no link detected

I have two HP NC523SFP 10Gb 2-port (1 on a HP DL380e Gen8 and the other on Dell PowerEdge 2950) both systems have Centos 7, the cards are detect and are running the same firmware. I have connected directly the servers with 10Gtek SFP-H10GB-CU2M…
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Installing Dell R710 from Scratch

I am building a Dell R710 server from scratch. I am deploying a bootable USB on the internal usb port. The bootable usb contains esxi 6.x and I can't seem to configure the RAID controller from scratch. When booting (before it boots to ESXI on BIOS…
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Dell PowerEdge R630 memory upgrade, will this work?

Current configuration: 4x64GB LRDIMM, 2400MT/s, Quad Rank, x4 Data Width We have a lot of these available: 32GB RDIMM, 2400MT/s, Dual Rank, x4 Data Width My question: Will we see a negative performance impact when switching from 256GB (total per…
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Installed 6.x ESXi on Dell R710 from bootable USB

I have a bootable USB plugged into the internal drive for ESXi, and when looking at the harddrive space, it only show the 32GBs on the usb. The question is, how do I use local server resources such as cpu, ram, and more importantly hdd space?
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Installing ESXI on Dell PowerEdge 710

I'm trying to installing ESXI on my Dell PowerEdge 710 that has 6.6 BIOS version. I'm attempting to flash the software using the internal USB, and everytime it starts to install whether using BIOS or UEFI it gets stuck at "loading module…
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Identify Dell Server Motherboard

I have a Dell Poweredge 2850 server and yesterday it died. It seems like motherboard is the culprit. I'm trying to get a replacement now, but that is where it gets a little bit confusing. If I enter my service tag into Dell Parts Search engine, it…
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