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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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Reliable way to check if a DRAC card is installed in Linux environment?

I have some Dell servers which I'm not sure if there are any DRAC cards installed (shame on me), and I'm trying to find a way to check it. Up to now, lspci and omreport reports nothing. dmesg | grep DRAC is unreliable since it gets rotated. racadm…
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Dell R610 Cannot create VD with disks

I'm having an issue adding some additional drives to my Dell R610. I first tried using a few HGST 600gb sas drives model: HUC106060css600 I then tried to use a few HGST 600gb sas drives model: HUC109060CSS600 The issue I am having seems strange to…
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Windows Server 2016 Essentials and Virtualization rights

We recently bought a Dell PowerEdge T130 with Windows Server 2016 Essentials. According to Microsoft (1) (2) I knew it is possible, since Windows Server 2012R2, to install Essentials as a virtual instance hosted on a physical instance of Essentials…
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Server 2012 R2 - Hangs at shut down or restart

We have an odd situation with some of our servers where they don't appear to be able to shut down or restart without having to hard power them off manually. At first I assumed it was just a one-time issue where a server had failed to come up after…
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Hyper-V - No Hypervisor on DELL PowerEdge R710

We can not get our Hyper-V core server up and running with a DELL PowerEdge R710. We tried it with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 but we always get the message "no hypervisor is running" right after starting a VM. We can install and…
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Dell PowerEdge IO and performance related problems

I have an Dell PowerEdge 830, but after installing a 4:th disk and while copying backup files to this new disk the overall performance of the server just plummet. The system degrades to a point where it can not be accessed remotely over the network…
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What's the top normal S.M.A.R.T. temperature for HGST Helium Ultrastar 8TB 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s enterprise drives?

I've just received new Dell R730xd 2U server with faceplate 12 * 3.5" drive bays + 4 * 3.5" mid-body tray, located above RAM modules & CPUs. I've plugged 16 * HGST Helium 8Tb 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s drives and started 2 * 8 * 8Tb RAID6 volumes…
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Acknowledging a warning in DELL OpenManage

We have a DELL R510 server where we replaced all the hard drives with new but non-certified 3TB disks. Now OpenManage throws a warning for every hard disk as "non-critical", since it recognizes the unsupported drives. Is there any way to…
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SD card for iDRAC 6 Enterprise - Dell vFlash or "normal" SD card?

I have got the built-in iDRAC 6 Express working on our Dell R610's, but I am about to get some iDRAC 6 Enterprise cards, which can be gotten fairly cheaply on eBay (around 20 USD at the time of writing). I see that these iDRAC enterprise cards have…
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Unable to reset IPMI cipher using ipmitool: "Parameter Data does not match" – why?

In attempting to make some Dell server BMC's more secure, I followed the recommendations given elsewhere and disabled cipher 0, using the following command (ipmitool running on the host OS, which is CentOS 6.5 – I'm root while doing this, of…
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4TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 shows as 2 TB with Dell PERC 6/i RAID controller

I just got 2 x HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 4 TB drives, for creating a RAID 1 array in a Dell Poweredge 2950 server with a PERC 6/i RAID controller. According to a Compatibility Summary from HGST, the drive should work with a non-reduced capacity.…
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Are mixed disk types possible on a Dell Perc h710p?

The PERC 710P supports both SAS and SATA disks. I have a single RAID1 set and would like to add a RAID5 set built out of SATA disks for archival use, but I cannot confirm that a configuration like that is possible. Citations requested if possible.
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How to convert a Dell Service Tag to an Express Service Code?

When calling Dell Support, you usually have to enter the "Express Service Code" of your system get a tech on the phone. This is because the Service Tag (= serial number) is not exclusively made of digits, but the Express Service Code is (DTMF…
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iDRAC6 JViewer Unusable

I'm getting the following error when trying to launch the Virtual Console, but the Virtual Console Preview works fine (it displays a small preview about once a second). I've confirmed that my M610 DRAC has the latest firmware (3.60 build 3), that…
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Driver corruption when deploying Dell Touchpad Drivers (with software) during imaging process

We're an sccm shop, and use it to deploy Windows. When deploying Dell laptops (multiple models), the touchpad drivers seem install properly, but the software doesn't. The resulting problem is that when the touchpad is pressed on occasion, the mouse…
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