Dell R710 and ESXi 4.1 NIC issue.

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• Boot from SAN Dell R710 and Dell MD3200i!

  Hi all

  I have Dell R710 and Dell MD3200i, now I would like to install the hyperviosr in a SAN lun. Can someone guide me that?

  Thank you

  Tho

  Hello

  1. you already have SAN LUNS allocated and the WWPN of Hope details. for this info, contact SAN team.

  2. ensure that HBA card installed on the Dell server is configured for SAN bootable at the BIOS level

  3. go in the name of the document below URL to get the Setup instructions for ESXi 5.1: vSphere Guide Installation and http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html

• VMWare ESXi 4 on Dell R710 shows no other Intel Nic

  Hello

  I installed VMWare ESXi 4 on a new Dell R710 server with integrated Broadcom 4 Port NETWORK interface and a network card additional Intel 4 Port. In the Vsphere Client now I only see the NIC. Broadcom onboard

  

  The additional INTEL Nic does not appear upward.  But I can see VMWare ESXi 4 acknowledged the Intel NIC in Advanced Settings Configuration VMDirectPath.

  Any help with this would be great.

  Thank you

  Marcus

  Welcome to the Forums - if it's the Quad Intel NIC check that the http://virtublog.com/2010/01/24/esx-4-0u1-intel-quad-nic-issue/ - the drivers are located here - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx_esxi40_intel_82575_82576_dt/ZHcqYmR0QGpidGR3

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• ISO won't boot on Dell R710

  Hello world

  New user of VMWare vSphere.  I can't boot from the installation CD that I downloaded.  The server is a Dell R710 and when I say to boot from the optical drive onboard it seems fair to jump him and continues to the next option (matrix raid or NETWORK card), I don't even see a flash of the DVD ROM drive...

  I tried to burn the ISO on a Mac, on a Workstation Windows 7 with different burning software, tried to burn in faster and slower speeds, tried different media such as CD - RW or just CDR, getting no joy!

  I got to start once in ESXi during my testing in the beginning, but the drive I used then is not good now (it was ESXi 4.1, same version, but it has a lot of scratches and stuff on it now, just gets the text ISOLINUX and stops)

  Any advice?

  Thanks, Mike

  Bump.

  I, also, I had issues installing esxi 4.1 via CD on a R710. I assumed it was something that I was doing wrong, or even the media.

  I tired to download the ISO of Dell and another of VMWare. Both gave me the same result-no workie. I then tried to burn to a different type of disc (Verbatim, I think) a different burner. Same result.

  At last resort, I tried to install via a usb flash drive. I used this guide step by step to build readers: http://benincosa.org/blog/?p=171

• Do Dell R710 should be updated Firmware?

  Hello world

  Are my servers Dell R710 running ESXi 4.1. The current firmware of the servers are 2.1.1

  After I check my servers vmware compatibility guide, I got the result:

  

  Can I upgrade the current firmware to a new? And how I do with Dell Server?

  Thank you

  Hello and welcome to the communities.

  Yes, you must upgrade to meet the needs listed on the VMware HCL. See http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2010/12/29/how-to-install-vendor-updates-on-server-hardware-running-esxi for a set of instructions that can be used.

• Reference Dell R710, Dell and VMware VAAI MD3200

  Hi guys, we have 3 x Dell R710 hosts running VMware ESXi hypervisor v5.1. Our SAN is via Dell MD3200 Direct attached storage. We have activated the option of High Performance. My question is about VMware VAAI. In particular, the recommendation of VMware: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1033665 it says: "For more information on support VAAI in a particular storage group or required firmware levels, contact the storage array provider." So I'm wondering: is VAAI supported (or not) with the MD3200... and otherwise: should I be deactivation of VAAI settings as recommended by VMware? What are the potential implications for the performance of deactivation of VAAI... or support DO NOT turn it off? Thank you, Steve

  Indeed, you are using a fairly old firmware. The most recent is 07.84.53.60.

  To be able to upgrade to this version, you will need a version quite familiar of the MDSM. I would say to download 4.1.2.29 or later, which is 5.0.0.70. All servers Windows and Linux (not VMware or XenServer) server that manage and/or are connected via iSCSI SAN should have their MDSM, updated software before upgrade you the firmware on the raid on the SAN controller.

  RAID controller firmware: www.dell.com/.../powervault-md3200

  Latest resources DVD (5.0.0.70): www.dell.com/.../powervault-md3200

• Reference Dell M620 and M820 ESXi 5.1 installation

  I'm relatively new to VMware on Dell hardware. The closest thing that I believe to a custom image is 'VMware ESXi 5.1 update 1 Image Recovery"(http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/driverdetails?driverid=RD5JN). I assumed it to be ESXi 5.1 update 1 with favorite Dell specifc driver packages. I had planned to use this new installs feeling that it would include the latest drivers for my Dell M620 and M820s and would be preferable to base VMware image.

  1. It is the support for the installation of these blades?
  2. The description says « Ce ISO image should only be used to restore/reinstall VMware ESXi on image for SD Card/USB Key on the supported Dell platforms. »
     • I am confused by the specification 'only' restore/reinstall and not install.
     • Also confused by the mention of the only card SD and USB to the apparent exclusion of standard hard drives.

  I installed with it as a test and it looks good, but I'm uncomfortable with the description. I would be grateful for any additional information or insight to those who support ESXi in Dell stores.

  Hi vmproteau,

  Here are my answers to your question based on my experience. I have no experience with the M620 or M820 I manages around 240 M610, 60 R710, the R720 10, so I am familiar with Dells ESXi 5.1 servers update 1.

  (1) Yes, I would recommend using the ISO provided Dell printer if you are not familiar with creating your own package with the necessary drivers and firmware.

  (2) this ISO standard will include all drivers for supported Dell servers and some customizations of Dell and can be used for new installations regardless of the storage (SD, USB or HD Local) option. I would like to look out for is mainly to make sure that you update the firmware on all of your blades with the most recent available by Dell that ESXi is very picky with the pilot and also incompatible firmware Dell CMC with thanks to a few mistakes from time to time.

  Kind regards

  CROD

• Lack of disks when installing ESXi 4.0 on Dell R710

  I have a Dell R710. I created a Raid 5 with some virtual disks and initialized to them. When I try to install ESXi 4.0, in the select a disk screen, it displays: Disk0, provider: iDRAC; Type: usb; Size: 0.0 B; Empty: y

  No idea what I'm missing?

  It seems that this controller is supported from ESX 4U1 (build 208xxx) - who are you installed?

  Please give points for any helpful answer.

• maximum number of cores on esxi dell r710 with Xeon E5520 HT

  I intend to buy a dell r710.

  This system will have 2 system physics quad core and HT technology.

  Intel® Xeon® E5520 2.26 Ghz, 8 M Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT

  It will have 8 cores with two Hyperthreaded by heart.

  The free esxi version is limited to 6 cores per socket.

  A hyperthreading is considered as a physical core for this limit under license?

  After this discussion, it seems that a HT is handled by the same esx 3 licenses and esx2, which is HT does not count against the limit of 6 basic license.

  http://communities.VMware.com/click.jspa?searchID=6367755 & ObjectType = 2 & objectid = 1238132

  Is this true?

  Hello

  It is my understanding as well. HT is not considered part of the license that you can always turn it off. Not necessarily, you cannot disable a Core.

  Best regards

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• Install ESXi on the SD card in Dell R710

  I get 2 servers Dell R710, MD3000i SAN and VMWare Infrastructure 3 Enterprise (with Virtual Center Foundation).  When you talk with the Dell Server specialist, he said that he would save us a lot of money on servers if I installed ESXi on a card SD of myself.  (you must get the level premium for the server support if you put ESXi embedded)

  First of all, I know that the card must be 1 GB or less, but I was wondering if there is a specific brand or model that would work better?

  In addition, can I put the card in, make the appropriate changes to the BIOS and install ESXi directly on the SD card on a CD?  Or, I have to install ESXi on the map with a workstation has a SD card reader and place it in the R710?

  I searched a bit and can only collect pieces on it.  Any help would be appreciated!

  The links should help you, but it will not be a supported installation.   I would also check to see if Dell provides a built-in ESXi recovery CD.  Have you checked to see if you can just order

  VMware ESXi v3.5 with VI3 Ent trial, without subscription, 2Socket, SD

• Sizes of mixed memory in Dell R710 to reach speeds of 1333 mhz and 800 mhz

  We have some Dell R710 which was originally ordered with 48 GB in a configuration of 1333 mhz 12x4Go (RDIMMS). We ordered 6 sticks of memory of 4 GB 1333 mhz additional to complete all 18 banks for a total of 72 GB.  The speed of the memory, then decreased to running at 800 mhz.  We had immediately complaints on the performance in some of our mission critical VM (terminal Server and SQL DBs servers), so we have VMotion their due on a R710 still on the original 12x4Go config clocked at 1333 mhz and complaints went.  I spoke with pre-sales both Dell and after-sales technical support and they confirm that filling all 18 banks decreases speed to 800 mhz, but I get conflicting reports which must be running 12 banks (which is configured as 2 of the 3 banks available in each 6 channels) at 1 066 mhz now which is not. Still, both say that my best option is to return the modules to 4 GB bought recently and also pull the original 12x4Go modules and replace them all by 12x8Go 96GB and should operate at 1333 mhz.  It is really more memory I need and almost three times that I have already budgeted and spent on extra 4 GB of purchase sticks.

  The other option, you said I could do, as well as that of my question is to mix 6x4Go and 6X8Go, up to 72 GB.  I see also that is a configuration of memory available on the Dell Web site during the construction a R710, and he said 1333 mhz as well.  Technical support before and after had these things to say, and it makes me a little nervous because this isn't an absolute 'you'll be fine:

  prior support guy:

  "Everything I read or say confirms that it is perfectly fine to mix the modules in sizes too long as modules within each channel are the same size." I think it can be recommended by most to ensure the consistency of the size but as I said before that we have in our new server system configurations to be cited with mixed sizes what makes me even more confident that is you went this route you would be fine and little or no experience in performance decline. »

  support after guy:

  "Regarding your new question on the use of 6 DIMM 4 GB mixed with 8 GB for a total of 72 GB, which is not an optimum configuration, but I don't think you should really meet a lot of problems with it."  I mentioned before that if you mix speeds, it will downclock fastest at the speed of slow DIMM DIMMS, so certainly would advise against mixing speeds. Regarding the size, the only thing you might encounter as it is booting, you can hear this isn't an optimal configuration, but it should detect any memory and be able to make use of this.  Don't think there is really a performance reached unless you're missing speeds.  «Also, don't forget to reflect your configuration across all channels, if you do not want all of the 4 GB and 8 GB in the same configuration such that put all 8 GB in slots 1/2/3, then put the 4 GB DIMMs in 4/5/6 on both machines slot A and B.»

  So the real question is - if it is not a "optimal" configuration, which makes it means the actual performance of my vSphere servers?  All done and they have problems?

  Thank you

  Ben

  How about using 8x8GB sticks for each host? You'd get to 64 GB each... I'd like to see if Dell will allow you to trade in the memory, you do not have to purchase new memory inside the host... Or look for another provider of memory which will provide you with the correct memory at a better price.

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• Reference Dell R300 Xeon 3353 and ESXi 4?

  Hello

  I'm currently under ESXi 3.5 on a Dell R300 with CPU server 3353 everything works fine. I am considering the upgrade to ESXi 4 but I do not see in the HCL for support for the UC 3353 (only 54xx ones).

  Is there a reason for this? Does anyone have experience with 3353 R300 and ESXi 4?

  Thanks for your help,

  Rémi

  Don't worry, ESXi 4 will work fine.

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• Acceptable DELL PS4100xv and SAN HQ disk performance

  Hello

  I have a Dell PS4100xv with 12 x 600 GB 15K SAS drives configured in RAID 6.

  3 three R420 servers are connected via 2 x Power Connect 6224 (bunk).

  I'm under ESXi 5.1 U1 with a mixture of SQL virtual computers, file servers, and Proxy servers.

  What are the acceptable values for a healthy EQL in terms of latency, disk queue, Ops ARE / s and etc?

  Just recently, I transferred a virtual machine to the PS4100XV. The virtual machine has a very slow behavior when using the EQL Dell. This is SQL Server. You have a lot of users complaining about the sluggish behavior.

  I need to determine if I have a problem on my PS4100xv in terms of performance before you start to troubleshoot the VMs and ESXi hosts.

  These are values measured HQ SAN during the last eight hours.

  If I got this right that my own analysis

  • The disk queue is ok, since its constantly @ 0. EQL can handle the load and nothing is pending.

  • IOPS / s is ok, because the base on the RAID my table evaluator should support 1500 IOPs. Current reading is 742 IOPS / s only.

  • To write latency is ok because he is 13 Ms and does not even approach 20 ms.

  • Latency of reading, I have a problem? It fits above 20 Ms flat around 25 ms to 40 ms.      But not more than is not 40 ms.
  • For the size of the IO rate & IO, I don't know if that's a good indicator. What are the acceptable values?

  Disk queue depth:	zero (0), the graph shows his dish to zero.
  Average READ IOPS:	625
  Average WRITE IOPS / s:	117
  Total average IOPS / s	742
  Latency average reading	30 ms (ms 20 to 40 ms)
  Average latency of writing	13 ms (straight line @ 13 ms)
  Weighted average	28 ms
  E/s average rate readings	26.41 MB/sec
  Writing of average IO	2.26 Mbps
  Total	28.67 MB/s
  Average size of READ i/o	43,30 KB
  Average size of i/o WRITE	19.91 KB
  Weighted average	39.62 KB

  There is no retransmission of packets and the network usage is only 3%.

  Would really appreciate the input and recommendations.

  What are the acceptable values for a healthy EQL in terms of latency and IOPS / s, queue disk, etc.?

  Thank you

  Paul

  I strongly suggest you open a record of support on any show of related issues.  However, with ESXi especially when I see low i/o + latency, the first thing I usually find is that DelayedACK is enabled.  Sometimes, large receive the unloading (LRO) can do that as well.   Another common problem is not optimize MPIO.  And not not not using Round Robin with 3 IOs by path from the default value of 1000 IOs.  Or if you have a company or business license + installation Dell EQL MEM.   Sharing also several VMDK with one card virtual SCSI inside each virtual machine is another cause of latency.   Each virtual machine can have up to four 4 virtual SCSI adapters.  With a single adapter, single VMDK (disc) can be active at a given time.  If an operation of e/s on the "C:" drive will block your SQL disks.

  This link is a PDF that will show you how to fix common incorrect configurations with ESXi + EQL.

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

  HOWEVER.  If you find delayed ACK is enabled the process described here probably won't be enough to solve the current connections.   With the mode node maint.  Remove the address of discovery EQL, remove the "Static discovery" entries EQL volumes.   Restart the node.   Add discovery addresses but NOT yet rescan.  Make sure that login_timeout is 60 years old, DelayedACK is disabled.   Then make the new analysis.

  Kind regards

• Update for vsphere client and ESXi host, now getting errors

  Did a upgrade for my client vsphere, VMware-viclient-all - 6.0.0 - 3016447.exe file name

  Now I cannot view comments consoles, cannot add new guest OS (option is grayed out), and I get an error when the Client program starts (see first image)

  

  Here is the error when I try to view the console to the guest operating system. Can I use Remote Desktop connection to connect to the guest operating system (R2 for Windows Server 2012)

  

  Here is the version information

  

  Also improved the host system of the ESXi server to update to U1 using the VMware-VMvisor-Installer - 6.0.0.update01 - 3029758.x86_64.iso

  VMWare Tools never seems to complete the installation for the guest operating system.

  What can I do now?

  Client runs on a desktop computer Windows 7 Pro with 24 GB of RAM.

  ESXi is a server Dell Poweredge T110-2 with 32 GB of RAM

  I ran into the same issue and Re: VMware-viclient-all - 6.0.0 - 3016447.exe broke Console hosts 6.0 ESXi and ESXi 5.5 fixed it for me.

  André

• How to install the graphics card Nvidia Quadro 4000 in Dell R710

  Hi all

  I read a lot about the installation of the Nvidia Quadro PCIe x 16 card in a Dell R710.  I know what parts I need to order (Dell GP347 PCI-e left Riser), but I don't know how to install the power cable 6 pin required by the Nvidia card.  Where would connect it to the motherboard Dell R710?  Is there a place to connect?  If not, is there some type of power provides I can hang the 6-pin power Cable from Nvidia and power the server?  Any help would be appreciated.

  It's a bit old now, but thought I would answer that I had this work and very happy with the performance!

  In addition to editing card, that I needed, there is NO way to provide the power that the card must provide without a power SUPPLY.  There is a really small box listed on Newegg called "ePOWER EP - 450CD 450W ATX12V/EPS12V modular juice dedicated to the area of graphics card and CPU of power".  Buy and run the GPU power cable to an empty PCI slot at the back of the Dell server.

  I also bought some video cards NVidia Quadro 4000 2 GB GDDR5 PCIe for each of my 5.5 ESXi servers. Also, I left my active integrated video graphics card and it is always primary for my hypervisor.

  Download and install the NVidia ESXi drivers on their site and follow the directions to install.  Reset.

  I use sVGA with my Horizon offices and downloaded a trial version of Sketch-Up to test the 3D.  They have a community of users who post 3D renderings and you can download it directly from the Sketch-up program.  Cruise around and check the performance.

  As a side note, I noticed IE worked worse way by using the GPU when browsing the internet.  Go to settings, advanced in Internet Explorer and has the option at the top of the page "use rendering software instead of GPU".  This change makes IE works as expected.