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Dell is a manufacturer of computer and networking equipment, for both SOHO and enterprise usage. In addition, Dell also offers consulting services. This is a generic tag to be used when no more specific tags are available.

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Provisioning DELL servers using only linux tools

We have taken delivery of a bunch off Dell Poweredge Rack servers. Unfortunately when ordering it was neglegted to ask for dhcp to be enabled in the built in iDRAC controlers... So they are all stuck on the same IP address. Which means that I'll…
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What is the button on power supply of the Dell Optiplex 760 workstation for?

What is the button on power supply of the Dell Optiplex 760 workstation for? There is a small button near LED power indicatior - seems to do nothing when pressed.
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R610 redundant power supply

We are installing Dell Poweredge R610 servers with redundant powersupply's: High Output Power Supply Redundant, 717W So each server has two power supplies. I'm trying to figure out whether during normal operation, the power draw through each PSU…
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please demystify the 10Gb ethernet interfaces, cables

this really is a Dell question but tempted to ask the experts @ serverfault. choosen a Dell powerconnect 8024 10GbE switch. per the spec sheet this has 10GbaseT ports. "24x 10GBASE-T (10Gb/1Gb/100Mb) with 4x Combo Ports of SFP+ (10Gb/1Gb) or…
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Easily patch Dell firmware without OS support?

On our HP servers, HP provides an image we can put on a USB key (or CD), boot from and patch the all the firmware in the system. On our Linux Dell servers there's a convenient yum repository we can set up in a few simple steps (I use puppet) to put…
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Can a RAID array be rebuilt through DRAC?

I have a Poweredge T610 and I was wondering if it is possible to completely erase and rebuild the RAID array remotely with DRAC
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Make Dell's OpenManage 6.2 information available through SNMP

I have successfully installed OpenManage on a CentOS 5.4 server and I'm able to use OpenManage through the web interface running on port 1311, but I would like to be able to expose this information through the SNMP server. I don't know SNMP…
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Why are there two backplane connectors inside a Dell poweredge r410?

Just received a new 1U server - a Dell Poweredge r410. There are four hot-swap drive trays, which can accommodate either SAS or SATA drives. However, the odd thing is, instead of a single SFF8087 connector connecting the SAS HBA to the four-drive…
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Installing ESXi on Dell Poweredge Server

We had two Dell Poweredge servers donated to us yesterday which I want to install ESXi on. I'm used to HP servers, but I understand that it is possible to buy Dell servers with ESXi pre-installed. I've seen a lot of references to OpenManagement…
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How to back up RAID (PERC) configurations?

At my site we have several RAID storage servers, mostly using Dell PERC cards. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a way to take automated backups of the PERC configuration? The reason I ask is that Dell support has in several cases told us to…
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How to grow a hardware Raid 5?

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2970. Currently it runs as a ESXi server with a handful of VM's on it. I have 3 300GB drives plugged in to it, and 5 open trays across the front. It is setup as a hardware Raid5 from the factory. My question is if I start…
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R210 vs R210II rails

I have an R210II (Service tag 8C04HY1), which unfortunately does not have rails that I need. I've found rack rails at https://www.dell.com/en-nz/work/shop/dell-readyrails-1u-static-rails-for-2-4-post-racks/apd/770-bbif/networking for an R210 server.…
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'Foreign' state for brand new disk in Dell R730

Trying to install additional drives into my R730 Dell Poweredge (none have failed, just need more space) Inserted the disks and they all show as status 'Foreign' and the only option available is 'Blink' or 'Unblink' Some sources refer to 'clear…
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Visually identifying Dell disks on Solaris

I have a Dell PE1950 running the latest OpenSolaris, connected to a Dell MD1000 enclosure with 15 disks in it. I am not using PERC to control the disks, instead I use a simple SAS 5/E (LSISAS1068) controller that exposes the raw disks so we can use…
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Set 802.1Q tagged port on VLAN1 on Dell PowerConnect switch

I'm having big troubles when adding this Dell switch to my network. Here we use several VLANs to segment traffic. All switches (3com and DLink mostly) have configured the same VLANs, most ports are 'untagged' and belong to a single VLAN, except for…
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