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how do i install OMSA on a ESXi 5.5 host to manage raid and propietary data? it's not very clear, i think i've read something abotu needing a vMA virtual machine running?

I have two R710 that was working fine with VmWare 5.0. Since I have reformat them with VmWare 5.5 they crash on reboot. The issue is exactly the same on the two servers. If I powered down and then powered up them the boot succeed. When the reboot failed, I have a message on the LCD screen E171F P

I read I can use S100 to set up a RAID 10. I bought 4 new drives (1TB each). I installed into system. They are all there and work. I went to the setup disk and created the Virtual Drive and selected ALL DRIVES and RAID 10. I then SAVED. Now it want to install the OS. So I click thru and get to the p

Hello Guys, I have a problem with installation new system on R900. Its takes about 3-4 hours.After installation system performance is very low. OS is installed on RAID 1 (Perc 6/i) but by Qlogic card i have connected 100 another disks which I cane view on installation screen. I try to install ano

i wanna know which generation was the suport of windows server 2003 dropped because i saw into 11th generation r715 some pages says it supports windows 2003 or says no even at dell website most different pages says it not support but i have found one pages says it is in the specs

i read that with r720 u cant install windows server 2003 directly you need to install as VM but i read something about getting the right drives for the raid controller or something like that my r720 has PERC H710 INTEGRATED RAID CONTROLLER. if anyone could provide steps as which i can install 2003 a

I just reinstalled server 2003 and now the system is asking me for disk 2. I don't remember ever having this disk and know I don't now. How can I get the second disk?

We had a hard drive fail on our server and decided to replace both with larger drives. I created a raid 1 and made it bootable in the Adaptec utility. When I try to install the server, it can't find the drive so I figured I needed to load the raid drivers first. When I try and load the Adaptec SA

hello i have recently been given 2 servers to work on a install a fresh operating system however both these server have the same issue where you set the boot device in the bios to cd/dvd drive and then restart and insert a windows install cd into the drive but the server will not boot to this disk a

I have a PowerEdge 2950 III on the way and I'd like to run the free ESXi version from VMWare. I know Dell makes their own (paid) version with integrated drivers... Will the free version be an option for me, or will it never work due to the needed/missing drivers? Or perhaps I just need to build my o

I installed Windows sever 2012 R2 on my Dell 2950 the install seemed to go fine now I get the "press Ctrl +Alt+Delete to sign in" prompt the next screen asked me for my Admin password. When I enter my password i get a dos prompt with a blinking screen, accros the top reads C;\ Windows\system32\cmd.e

Hello, I have an 1850 Poweredge server, and I installed Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (32 bit) on it. I'm having a hard time getting the network drivers to work.  I've tried all the installs on Dell's site, but I'm still unable to get any network access.  Does anyone know the exac

So, I have a PowerEdge R710 that I am looking to redeploy in another role. We have updated the drives, and have 8x 600GB drives in a RAID10 array. The array is 2.4TB. I would like to UEFI boot so that the entire 2.4TB drive is the C: drive of the Windows server (2012). I have downloaded the late

I have a 1950 and I am having a problem installing the OS the system has a Dell PERC6i SAS SATA RAID Controller. I have tried all the configurations for this controller and nothing helps. When I try to install the OS I get an error that the hard drives are not found. Both hard drives are working OK

The current configuration is a Dell T310, with an S300 controller, with all 4 hot-swap slots filled with SAS drives. The operating system is SBS 2008 (2008 Server/Vista)  I plan to change the controller from S300 (software) controller, to an H700 (hardware) controller.  My concern is the

Hello, I have downloaded the following from DELL website : VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64-Dell_Customized_A02.iso (3/11/2014) But it's still the 5.5 version instead of the current 5.5 update 1 from VMWare (released on 3/11/2014 too). Does anybody have an idea about the release date

Is there any sort of Dell backup software which has shipped with our T-420? Just asking because looking through the OEM created partitions there are: 500Mb – EFI System partition 40Mb – OEM partition 3Gb Recovery partition What is the purpose of the 3Gb Recovery partition? Just checking

Hi, I have a blade server Dell R310. I have created the virtual disk on Raid Configuration, Also I have set the to boot on BIOS. I have PERC S100 when I've checked it on my configuration tab. The scenario is that I want to install a new / fresh copy of Windows 2008 R2 on this server, I have

Hi Sir, Dell PowerEdge R710 with windows server 2003 R2 is not booting to windows in normal mode after upgrading the RAM to 64 GB. RAM arrangement is done 4 nos of 16GB RAM in 2 Channels. I am not getting any error message regarding RAM configuration. It is booting in Safe-mode but not booting in

I How is the Recovery partition made? I have a 3rd party backup solution.  I replaced a disk controller.  I restored all of the partitions.  I tested running the Diagnostics, and it booted fine.  When I The diagnostics worked fine, it boot fine, and all data was available.