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We just got a PowerEdge T110 II, I followed the instructions I found on the support documents and forums like: use LifeCycle, boot to OpenManage DVD, Nothing worked Actually, my server does not have LifeCycle, it has Unified Server Configurator instead. I tried using USC and was stuck at the point

Hi, I'm trying to assign vSphere Standard licenses I bought via Dell (and registered). Whenever I try to assign a license I get an error message: "The license key entered does not have enough capacity for this entity" Has anyone ever had that issue ? I have dual CPU servers (so I bought 4 licen

Trying to install Win 2012 R2 on a 2950 I picked up but am not able to find the drivers I need to get it to recognize the disks. I had a similar issue with an 1850 and it was my RAID drivers... but this server doesn't appear to be utilizing RAID (nothing mentioned upon boot). 

I am a bit dumbfounded here: I certainly can use the dvd drive (a HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GU90N) for reading CDs but I was unable to find a software to burn cds or create an ISO from a DVD. The usual suspects like CDBurner XP, PowerISO or ImbBurn show all that there is no compatible device installed.. Al

Question about the Bios Settings for Configurable TD & x2APIC Mode under Windows Server 2012 R2. CPU 2 Each Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2680 v4 What are the best settings for the highest CPU MHz High Turbo Power that is for the two settings below? Configurable TDP  - Normal or - Level 1 x

Trying to install Win Server 2012 R2 on my PowerEdge 1850. I have the install on a bootable USB (created using Rufus).  The system boots and begins loading prep files for Windows installation and then I see the following: I've tried recreating the USB on different drives and still recei

I will be installing ESXi 6.0 update 2 onto 3 new M630 servers. I used the following ISO to install my m420s: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A02.iso Will this ISO work for my m630s as well? These machines have been ordered and received by a re-seller and t

Hi So I configured Raid 1, installed Windows server 2012 R2 from USB. But when the system reboots after installation is complete it says there us no boot device available. I tried to manually boot from the raid controller but still says the same thing. The boot is BIOS. I'd appreciate it jf you co

I recently installed the latest batch (June 2016) of MS updates on our servers. It went well except for two servers, a PE2950 and a PE2970, both running Server 2008R2.  These are our only two servers running Server 2008R2.  On both machines, after installing all the updates, I was unable

Is it possible to install Windows 10 Professional on PowerEdge R 230 server? Thank you.

Hi everyone, we have a PE R920 with sixteen 4Gb dimms already installed, and we want to add another twelve 16Gb memory dimms. The 4Gb dimms are single rank and the new 16Gb are double rank. Can someone help me figuring out the right order for the dimms? i attached a table so it will be easy to me

Hello I am currently running my PowerEdge T110 II with VMware ESXi 6.0 - Dell Customized image. I see as of April 15 2016 Dell has released VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 and I would like to update my system. On the download page I see there is an option to download and ISO file. I am wondering

Hello, I'm running two 6 core 2435's in a 2970 with bios ver.4.2.1. I am bound by 3rd party software to run a 32bit kernel in case somebody needs to ask why I'm not using a 64 Bit Kernel. I can run: ' lshw -class processor ' and I see the correct core count and cpu information. If I run 'cat /pr

I need some help with one of my Dell R720 servers. I was doing some firmware updates on my servers using iDRAC and on one of them the network firmware update failed. When I boot the system it show it is trying to bootstrap the card and then prints out: Embedded NIC1 :OS NIC=DISABLED, Management Shar

Hi All Pulling what's left of my hair out... I am trying to upgrade a Dell PowerEdge 1850 from 2012 to 2012 R2 but get the error Storage controllers: LSI Adapter, Ultra320 SCSI 2000 series, w/1020/1030 Can anyone send a link to this please? The dell website is useless when searching for

I have a new T330 with RAID 1+10. PERC H330 Integrated Controller. 2 each 500gb on RAID 1  and 4 each 500gb on RAID 10.   I am trying to install Server 2008r2.  The issue with no keyboard or mouse has been solved by installing a Star-Tech  PCIe USB 2.0 card.  So let me get

The T330 has no native USB 2.0 support. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installation media  has no native USB 3.0 support. So on OS installation the mouse and keyboard will not work.   I tried injecting the USB 3.0 drivers into the Windows 2008 server ISO (see: https://www.dell.com/suppor

Hello, So I am finding mixed responses. It appears that ESXi doesn't support the T310 when a PERC S3000 is installed, yet the dell site lists it as compatible. So........ Does it work or does it not? If it does can someone point me to the installer? Thank you,

Hello. I installed VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0.update02-2068190.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso on R620 server. HASH value of downloaded file is same as on download page. When I try to install tools on virtual guests message pop up damaged tar archive for linux guests. Also for windows guests get

I called in to Dell Technical support earlier and inquired about downgrading my current server OS (2012 R2) to 2008 R2. I was informed that I had not selected a field for downgrade eligibility during my checkout and as a result I would be able to downgrade for free. I kind of went blank and thanked