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Hello I have a 4 blade VRTX with the SPERC 8, I used the driver from this link: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=0P5XV I was looking to this doc: http://partnerdirect.dell.com/sites/channel/en-us/documents/building_microsoft_windows_server_2012_clusters_o

what is the best way to reformat a poweredge R420 server? I have never reformatted a server before, so I would love to know what the best way to do it is. Thank you in advance...

We have a Dell Poweredge R720 server that has an orphaned Qlogic host bus adapter in it. The lights on the HBA are flashing yellow, green, and orange. I am wondering if this orphaned adapter could be using system resources and if it should be removed.

Hi,I am facing an issue with "LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 [Fury] (rev 02)" controller when "intel_iommu=on" parameter is enabled in grub.I am working on SRIOV and I need to enable intel_iommu=on in grub so that it allows memory management and pass-through mechanism.But when I enabl

Win2k12 R2 is not listed in supported OS list (OS Driver pack 6.4.0.17). I created SUU with Dell Repository Manager 2.0.0.187 to install latest Driver Pack. I get "catlog file not found" errors when i try to upgrade OS Pack. Please help.

Hi, I have installed Windorws 2012 R2 on my Poweredge R900 it has raid controller Perc 6/I with 5 SAS 300 GB HDD but i am not sure on what level of raid the OS installed. When I check the the disk manager C: drive shows 790 GB but as a Dell Virtual Disk shows 1.35 TB approx. Could any one please ex

I've got my SAS disks in a RAID 5 array (PERC S300, Poweredge R415) and all show as online. When I go through Lifecycle to deploy Server 2012 R2 it doesn't see the disk to install the OS to. I've tried to load the extracted driver via USB but it comes up to say there is no signed drvier available.

I have a R310 which failed with a blue screen. I tried booting from the Dell OS Disk and doing a clean install on both the original hard drive and a brand new Hard drive. The installation runs normally but gets a blue screen at 10% or 20% (random) during file extraction. Could it be the RAID con

I have two brand new R715 servers and am trying to run Server 2012 R2 on them. I am getting a lot of blue screens on reboot, inaccessible_boot_device. I read about some updates that cause this, so have done several rebuilds and still get them fault after windows updates run, but without the update

I've just used the Lifecycle controller on my new PowerEdge T320 to install Windows Server 2012 R2. Now there are two removable drives that I can't seem to get rid of: MAS022 and OEMDRV. I can eject them but they're back after a reboot. Anyone know how to hide them? Is there some completion procedur

When will Dell suport vSphere 6 on the VRTX. The only thing seeming to be held back is the Shared Perc 8 HBA. I tried using the older megaraid driver from 5.5 and 5.1 but get a segmentation fault on boot.

We have iDRAC7 Enterprise on two new NX3200 NAS with Storage Server 2012 R2 . In the OS a NIC shows up in Network Connections with Device Name "iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device" that is grabbing a DHCP address. Can someone explain what this is? I disabled it and iDRAC still works. Thank you

I got a couple of R730 Brand new that came preinstalled with ESXI 5.1 u2 ,on dual flash cards and the size of each one of them is 7GB what is the procedure to upgrade the esxi from 5.1 to 5.5 on PowerEdge R730 using the dell customized iso"  , and will 7GB be enough for the upgrade proces

Hello, I am about to upgrade our VMware cluster. I want to upgrade it to ESXi 5.1 Upgrade 3 but am unsure if the stock ISO will run fine on a Poweredge M710 server?  I have had a look at Dells site and can find nothing that will work in Update Manager, only a custom ISO for re-installing.&

Our initial VMware installation was performed using the ESXi 4.1 .iso image, can we safely upgrade to ESXi 5.5u2 using the Dell .iso image?  VMware ESXi 4.1u2 to Dell ESXi 5.5u2 We've run the pre-upgrade checker on the 4.1 hosts with zero problems found, but this is about using the Dell speci

Hello, A client of ours has recently had their RAID array fail and we need to reinstall the OS. The system has an OEM CoA for Windows Server 2008 Standard FE (Foundation Edition), but we don't have any discs. Considering that FE is OEM, it's probably like pulling teeth getting a copy of the softwa

PowerEdge R210 II Windows 2008 R2: If more than 3 external USB drives are connected, they stay offline. I am pretty frustrated with some odd setting (or I don't know what) that is stopping me from have more than 3 external USB drives connected to my server. The server pushes content to storage dr

Where are drivers to install MS server 2012 R2 on powerade T110 ii ? do exist a .iso file whith it in ? I try since 2 day and no way to find which driver is missing... can you help me.

Decided to upgrade our ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 u2 on our R610:s to get the new hotness, and did it the same way I've installed all along - just grabbed the latest ISO from Vmware. This has worked very well with both 4.1 and 5.1; the systems have been rock solid for years. 5.5 u2 however has severe iSCSI i

I'm new to this model server so I apologize if this is a simplistic question. My IT department gave me 4 Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with no O.S. on them and no other information or documentation. I have been able to get the base Windows 2008 R2 O.S. installed, but am struggling with adding the nece