There are many ways to update the system. The easiest way would be to boot into the LifeCycle Controller/System Services and choose the update option. It should have a place to choose where to update from. If you have not configured the LCC network settings then it should prompt to configure that. I think either of these catalog locations should work.
downloads.dell.com ftp.dell.com
The catalog files are in the catalog folder, but you shouldn't need to specify that(downloads.dell.com/catalog). You can check those locations on your network to see if there is anything blocking communication.
Memory upgrade - I bought two sets of 4x16GIG RAM on 2400mhz dual channel. Immediately after installing them i get the messages directly on boot: Please removed unsupported memory. Am i missing something here? What else is there?
Memory population has many guidelines/rules. The memory controller is on the CPU, so the model number of the CPU and memory is needed to review full specifications.
SSD - The bios reads them fine. When i configure RAID0 on them i end up configuring it on two disks in the end of the set up via life-controller. When i boot into ESXI however the exact two other disks pop up. For some reasons with AHCI and RAID0 the other two disks are invisible to ESXI. Why?
I'm not understanding what you are doing. What storage controller are you using? I don't know what you are referring to when you are talking about "the other two disks". I suggest providing details about your configuration, like, total number of disks, how they are connected, what storage controller is being used, version of ESXi, and how they are configured.
The catalog download goes fine with FTP.dell.com. However when try to download any update for anything it stops after a few second and shows a message: Unable to install the Update Packages. "SUP0531 - Recommended action: Enter another repositry location that has the Update Packages and retry the option". When i try downloads.dell.com i get it cant seem to download the catalog: LNK0004 - Check the network connection, network configuration settings and retry. If the problem presists, restart the FTP. If you could do the last for me that would be amazing (just kidding). I will retry the CD today just to be safe but i doubt it will do any good. From my laptop i can reach: https://downloads.dell.com/catalog/
Concering what you wrote about memory is new for me. On desktop i never made any mistakes. I even ordered loads of RAM and installed tons of it by working in a computer store. I woul love to hear how this would work in my case then, because this seems to be new to me. MY processor is: Intel Xeon CPU E3-1220 V6 @ 3.00GHZ. I have no idea who this would relate to RAM? I remember looking up the MOBO guides what i could do.
I configured RAID via the DELL lifcycle controller but only have of my populated disks are being used and i can't figure out why. It has a S130 controller i believe. From what i can tell two disk seem to have the status "online" and the other two seem to be "ready". Only disk :010 and 011 seem to be convertable and 012/013 are ignored? All disks are identical: Intenso 512GB SATAIII. I retried this and now i could configure RAID0 on all of them but ESXI doesn't see it... Hope you can help.....
A ready state on the drive means that it is ready for use, it is not currently being used. The disk must be in a virtual disk or set to non-RAID before it will be presented to the operating system.
I'm not aware of ESXi being a supported operating system on the S130. I don't think there is a driver for VMware for that controller. You will need to go into the system BIOS and change the SATA mode from RAID to one of the other options to disable the RAID controller. This will cause the SATA controller to stop functioning as a RAID controller and just be a pass-through controller. It should be able to use normal SATA drivers if you do that.
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There are many ways to update the system. The easiest way would be to boot into the LifeCycle Controller/System Services and choose the update option. It should have a place to choose where to update from. If you have not configured the LCC network settings then it should prompt to configure that. I think either of these catalog locations should work.
downloads.dell.com
ftp.dell.com
The catalog files are in the catalog folder, but you shouldn't need to specify that(downloads.dell.com/catalog). You can check those locations on your network to see if there is anything blocking communication.
Memory population has many guidelines/rules. The memory controller is on the CPU, so the model number of the CPU and memory is needed to review full specifications.
I'm not understanding what you are doing. What storage controller are you using? I don't know what you are referring to when you are talking about "the other two disks". I suggest providing details about your configuration, like, total number of disks, how they are connected, what storage controller is being used, version of ESXi, and how they are configured.
Thanks
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February 28th, 2019 03:00
The catalog download goes fine with FTP.dell.com. However when try to download any update for anything it stops after a few second and shows a message: Unable to install the Update Packages. "SUP0531 - Recommended action: Enter another repositry location that has the Update Packages and retry the option". When i try downloads.dell.com i get it cant seem to download the catalog: LNK0004 - Check the network connection, network configuration settings and retry. If the problem presists, restart the FTP. If you could do the last for me that would be amazing (just kidding). I will retry the CD today just to be safe but i doubt it will do any good. From my laptop i can reach: https://downloads.dell.com/catalog/
Concering what you wrote about memory is new for me. On desktop i never made any mistakes. I even ordered loads of RAM and installed tons of it by working in a computer store. I woul love to hear how this would work in my case then, because this seems to be new to me. MY processor is: Intel Xeon CPU E3-1220 V6 @ 3.00GHZ. I have no idea who this would relate to RAM? I remember looking up the MOBO guides what i could do.
I configured RAID via the DELL lifcycle controller but only have of my populated disks are being used and i can't figure out why. It has a S130 controller i believe. From what i can tell two disk seem to have the status "online" and the other two seem to be "ready". Only disk :010 and 011 seem to be convertable and 012/013 are ignored? All disks are identical: Intenso 512GB SATAIII. I retried this and now i could configure RAID0 on all of them but ESXI doesn't see it... Hope you can help.....
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A ready state on the drive means that it is ready for use, it is not currently being used. The disk must be in a virtual disk or set to non-RAID before it will be presented to the operating system.
I'm not aware of ESXi being a supported operating system on the S130. I don't think there is a driver for VMware for that controller. You will need to go into the system BIOS and change the SATA mode from RAID to one of the other options to disable the RAID controller. This will cause the SATA controller to stop functioning as a RAID controller and just be a pass-through controller. It should be able to use normal SATA drivers if you do that.
Thanks