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• DELL PowerEdge 2950 PERC 5 / i

  Dear members,

  I have server Dell PowerEdge 2950, I need to install Windows 2003 Standard Edition and save it as a file server for my network.

  So I bought 2 TB SATA WD HDD, I would like to create RAID 1.

  As a trial, I connected two 145 GB SAS and a 2 TB SATA Bay and switch ON create RAID1.

  Please guide me how to create RAID 1 using PERC 5 / i utility of configuration?

  My version 5 PERC / i integrated 5.0.2.0003.

  Thank you

  Tony

  You cannot mix SAS and SATA drives in a RAID array.

• Dell PowerEdge 2950 Backplane - error message: SAS B missing cable. Misconfigured?

  We have a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 2950 s, they came with a built-in SAS Perc5i RAID controller.

  Unfortunately the Perc5i is a kind of fake raid 10 (a span of mirrors) rather than a bunch of mirrors so we had to get some raid cards appropriate instead.

  So now the perc5i on board is disconnected from the bottom of basket and disabled in bios, and we have our new raid card installed and connected to the bottom of basket - all is well and they work well.

  However when the machines bios startup stops and we get an error message saying the following:

  «SAS B cable missing /.» Misconfigured.

  Turn the system power off and connected properly. Details for the wiring of storage system information label and manual Ownders hardware.

  Press F1 to continue, F2 to run the configuration utility.

  How can we stop this message? This is obviously completely false; our new SAS cards are connected to the bottom of the basket and works very well. I don't see anywhere to disable this message in the bios or the 5 BMC Management utility.

  BIOS version is 2.2.6 (last)

  BMC firmware is 1.97 (last)

  Backplane firmware is 1.05 (last)

  Help, please!

  
  

• Dell PowerEdge 2950 P2V problem

  Physical server:

  Dell PowerEdge 2950

  Windows 2003 R2 Standard x 86 operating system

  Sheet music:

  Dell - hidden partition

  C: BONE

  D: Data1

  E: Data2

  F: Data3

  G: data4

  vSphere ESXi 4.1 (under license)

  ISCSI SAN

  vCenter Server

  I tried on cold hidden server with boot CD, but received the error "unable to determine the operating system invited."  Looks like that I don't have the driver for the Dell raid controller in the boot CD.

  I decided to go with the hot P2V using the plug-in for VirtualCenter.  I stop the SQL server service and disabled the firewall disabled the anti-virus tools.  Only two partitions (C and G) on the physical server must be in the new virtual machine.  So, I've selected partitions C and G and has increased the size of the drive at a time.  I made sure not to install the vmware tools and unchecked the option reconfigures.   The P2V conversion was successful.   But when I went to start the virtual machine, it starts with the 'VMWARE' logo and restarts immediately.  Restart the virtual computer so fast I can't even in the BIOS unless I hit the key several times.   I did the clonning with the hidden partition, but with the same problem.   There are no BSOD or any indication that the virtual machine cannot find the vdisks.   Called in vmware support.  They used webex for an hour, but could not fix.  Asked me to send in the logbundle.

  I HERE it if someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

  Thank you

  Another option is to install the Standalone Converter 3.0.3 on the PowerEdge, stop all services and performing the conversion.

  André

• Change a failing drive - RAID Dell Poweredge H310 - RAID 1

  Hi guys,.

  Thank you for everything that support you in these forums. I'm new here.

  We have a Dell PowerEdge T320 server on my new place of work. It is Dell Poweredge H310 RAID controller on it. It is configured in RAID-1, with 2 discs.

  Now my question is: in the event that one of the drives breaks down:

  1 - I should insert the new drive into the slot where the failed disk has been inserted, or in the following location?

  2 - will be the new drive automatically "copied" with the healthy disk data or it will need some work?

  I read the manual and chapter 'Replacement year Online physical disk', says the following, but I don't know the answer to these questions:

  1. in the management of virtual disks window, select Virtual Disk # and press the arrow key down until the physical disks is highlighted.

  2. press arrow right key to expand the list of physical disks that are members of the virtual disk.

  3. press the down arrow and select the desired physical disk that you want to replace. Press to view the list of operations permitted on the disc.

  4. Select Replace and then start.

  5. tap on the down arrow to select a replacement disk and then press the SPACEBAR to select the disk.

  6. click OK to start the replacement.

  Any advice would be appreciated.

  Kind regards.

  Videoclocknet,

  You must remove the failed disk and replace it with another similar drive on the same niche. When you choose the following location, be sure to follow the steps in the virtual disk management screen (VD) as you have indicated.

  The failed drive will be replaced and the replacement drive will be one on the following location. Either way is perfectly fine. You can then monitor status of the VD and the reconstruction process using OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA).

  2 disks configured in RAID 1 act as a reflection of the other. Failure of 1 drive ensures that the same data are available on the other. When you replace the failed disk, the rebuilding process begins, and the same data gets automatically copied.

  Please let me know if you have any other questions.

• Buy a windows server license R2 ROK 2012 for a Dell PowerEdge 2950 bought in 2008 [MS]

  Hello

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with windows server 2008, I bought it in 2008.

  I want to upgrade to the new windows server R2 Foundation, purchasing a license ROK 2012.

  Is this possible? Where can I buy one of these?

  Thank you

  OTO Tortorella
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  Buongiorno,

  He endured of Poweredge 2950 come sistemi al massimo do it 2008 server (even he 2008 r2).

  Speaking saluti

  Manual

• ESXi 3.5 on Dell Poweredge 2950 and Dell 6 GB/s card SAS HBA?

  Hello.

  I'm under ESXi 3.5 u4 on a Dell poweredge 2950 machine.

  I recently bought a Dell Powervault 124 t. autoloader with a HBA SAS 6 GB/s card.

  I installed the card SAS in the PE 2950, but now I can't seem to see in ESXi.

  Can someone help me with this?

  Thank you very much.

  I'm afraid that the Dell technician is correct.

  Someone at - it a link on ESX support not directly connected devices?

  This isn't the issue. The question is: do you have a link that shows devices supported?

  Reference Dell does support the autoloader Powervault 124 t. on ESXi 3.5?

  Have you checked the VMware HCL already, if the SAS controller is included/supported for ESXi version, you are running?

  There are a few articles which have tape readers running with Adaptec SCSI controllers, I don't see anything for ESXi 3.5 with a SAS controller still...

  Maybe there's a better chance to make this work with ESX 4.x with VMDirectPath

  André

• VMware ESXi 4 on Dell PowerEdge 2950 CDROM missing in virtual machines

  Hi all

  I installed VMware 4.0 on my Dell PowerEdge 2950, and everything moved very well. I had the ISO image from the support site on the website of VMware and Dell. I installed both with the same problem, once installed, the CD-ROM will not be displayed in any virtual machine, I create.

  I changed the boot parameters, the order of the boot, played with the BIOS settings, and no matter what I do, when I start the virtual machine and open a console window and try to connect on the CDROM, a message displays saying that the device is disconnected.

  I have reinstalled Windows on the box, went to the site of support of Dell and applied each update BIOS patch and firmware of the box. Including the one for the TEAC CDROM, which is in my box.

  Anyone had this problem before? If so, how should I do? I really need this works quickly. Without a CDROM, I can't install software such as SQL Server and others.

  Kind regards

  Michael Lange

  I assume that you have added a CDROm for virtual machines?

  You then specify "logged in/connected to the power on" in the settings of VM page? (I know it's usually obvious.. .but I did it very mistaken once this week.. .accidentally added the CDROM to the VM wrong.)

  What OS your virtual machine is running and you have the installed VMTools?

  If issuing a VMtools install on a windows host, it works, then the Cd drive works as ESX uses the virtual CD Rom to install the tools.

• Dell PowerEdge 2950 of installation

  I'm testing DPM on a Dell PowerEdge 2950.  To make this work, I have need to configure IPMI if I can have a server go to safe mode and out of safe mode.  I've been Googling like crazy, but have been unable to find an answer on how to get this working.  Whenever I try to put my host in standby I get this message:

  vCenter has determined that it cannot resume host & lt; hostname & gt; standby; Therefore, the eve of the entry task was suspended.
  Confirm that IPMI/ILO is configured correctly for host & lt; hostname & gt;.  Or, configure vCenter to use WoL, making sure there are at least two or more hosts in the cluster, and then try the task again.

  A couple of things about this error: an it is a cluster two host (for testing purposes).  Two, I use Dell hardware so I have to use IPMI not ILO.

  I have connected my DRAC page and enabled IPMI over LAN, but I don't know what else to do here, and I don't know where all the parameters concerning this in vCenter or ESX.  Any help would be appreciated.

  Gunnar

  I used the setting of Dell OpenManage.

  Under system / main system / remote access, you can see:

  Select the IPMI Over LAN-> Yes (don't forget it is YES)

  SOIL active Yes

  XXXXXXXXXX MAC address

  IPv4 address

  IP address static Source

  YYYYY IP address

  In ESX, under Configuration / PowerManagement / properties I use:

  BMC IP: YYYYY

  BMC MAC: XXXXX

  André

• Batteria Raid Controller Dell Poweredge 2950 [CF]

  Buongiorno,

  It operating system above tell che batteria del esaurita e raid controller.

  Potete fornirci UN preventivo by the sostituzione cortesemente?

  Grazie

  Buongiorno, the sto contattando by mail.

• DISK BY DELL POWEREDGE 2950

  Buongiorno, TR e rotto UN drive hard nel Server Poweredge 2950. E' UN DELL BARRACUDA ES.2 manufactured by da SEAGATE 1000 GB con S/N 9QJ34S01 and P/N 9EF248-050 (Serial Attached SCSI - SAS).

  He disco fa parte di una configurazione RAID 1, che I like ripristinare al più presto.

  I like acquistarne uno ed avere un preventivo. I'm dati by engineering del preventivo e spedizione sono:

  A.m.. Architetti S.r.l.

  Viale Bruno Buozzi, 49

  00197 ROMA

  P.IVA e C.F. 04869451007

  VI prego di farmi turned out he con preventivo di price terms prima possibile.

  Grazie

  Speaking saluti

  Michele Angeletti

  Buongiorno,

  Con passing it mouse sopra identifier c Supporto Dell'e the voce "private message", it could mandarmi come message privato di seguito required information?

  - Service tag del Server

  -ed email phone number

  Speaking saluti

  Manual

• Upgrade of ram per server DELL PowerEdge 2950

  Buongiorno,

  necessitiamo di assistenza per UN PowerEdge 2950 venduto a nostro client nel 2008, by cui ormai fuori co (he e S/N FJ0C34J).

  It client vorrebbe fare della di 16GB ram upgrade.

  In attesa di risposta, in want pre-empted by attenzione

  Buongiorno,

  Unfortunately no vendiamo più banchi di memoria per questo modello di server.

  Who can find I banchi di memoria currently available alla vendita.

  Accessories.euro.Dell.com/.../genselector.aspx

  Marco

• Compatible with Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers

  We would like to expand our cluster of servers ESX 3.5 U4. Currently we have 2 servers PowerEdge 2950 III, with 3 GHz processors Intel XEON X 5450. Dell has removed this line, apparently with the R710, substitute containing XEON X 5570 2.93 GHz CPU. The R710 server would be compatible in a HA cluster with our existing PowerEdge 2950 III servers? We are concerned about being able to smoothly VMotion among all servers.

  The R710 server would be compatible in a HA cluster with our existing PowerEdge 2950 III servers?

  VMware HA can work well also with different type of processor.

  We are concerned about being able to smoothly VMotion among all servers.

  VMotion (as well as the DRS) to activate CVS of your cluster.

  Create a new cluster, select CVS, put your new host R710 in this cluster, and then use VMotion to release a PE2950, put in maintenance mode and move it in EVC Cluster.

  André

• Dell PowerEdge 2900 RAID and drive down

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server. The primary transmission table has three drives and RAID 5. The system came this way, and it has been humming for quite a long time. Recently, one of the disks has deteriorated and the light on the drive flashes green and light amber. The light amber, I figured, it means that there is a problem with the drive and must be replaced. Then, I found a replacement on Amazon.com drive and installed (the drive is hot, but my cold started to be sure). I installed the drive, but keeps flashing green and amber light.

  I didn't know that I shouldn't have to replace the drive in this way, so I will now try to figure out what to do next. I hoped to reallocate the foreign disk so that I can use it, but my server always shows the reader, not having even if the new replacement drive is in the slot, now.

  I'm running PERC 5 / I integrated utility of Configuration Bios 1.04 - 019 a

  I started the server and you press CTRL-R. I've highlighted the controller and press the F2 key, what is operations. When the operations window opens, there are three menu items:

  Create new VD
  Zero Config reset
  Foreign config

  The only thing that I am allowed to do in this menu is to reset the configuration. I can't move my cursor upwards or downwards for one of the other choice of two menu.

  Scroll when the virtual disk and he discovers, it still shows the first two discs and a lack.

  When I press CTRL + N to display the next screen, I see a player listed as failed.

  How can I rebuild my RAID with this new drive? If I can't do it, what is the best way to remove the RAID and start over? If I delete the RAID and do it again (and if my replacement drive is indeed well), how can I make sure that my server not to see it, not having so that I can start using it?

  Alternating flashing green/orange means that the disc is in a status of predictive failure. What OS is running system? If you hotswap drive next failure they may possibly other issues table because the drive was online and participating in the table with errors on the disk. The adequate alternative method is to use our software Openmanage Server Administrator to run a consistency check on the table and then the drive offline. Once this has been done you can then swap the drive. It seems that in your case, that the new drive had bad data copied on it and it made a predictive failure as well. We want to do is run our hard drive diagnostics and test drives in the system.

  http://downloads.Dell.com/FOLDER01456532M/1/Dell-onlinediags-Win32-2.30.0.70.exe

  Install and run the GUI version in the start menu. In the left pane select the PERC 5 and then in the lower right pane select quick test and then to run tests.

• ESXi 4 - Dell Poweredge 2950

  Dell - PE 2950

  64 GB of RAM

  2 * 3.16 and processors quad Core (Intel x 5460)

  Last Bios version (2.6.1)

  ESXi Version 3.5 update 4 has worked without problems

  It wasn't an upgrade.

  New installation

  ESXi v4 - update 1 (Build 164009) was loaded on a USB (same as the one used for 3.5)

  When it starts, it gets that

  "vfat loaded successfully."

  Rest for 20 seconds, then returns this error:

  "Cannot find the Boot Partition.

  There are two virtual disks freshly wiped in the system (no not required).

  Any ideas?

  ESXi 4 can be installed from the CD on a USB - try that if you haven't done so already.

  Otherwise, install to local disks.

  Please give points for any helpful answer.