ESX 4.0 fails Dell R710

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• The Dell R710 server upgrade to R2 2012 Windows

  Question for the forum:

  I have a Dell R710 server.  There a PERC 6 / i RAID card in there.  There are discs 5 x 2 TB on the PERC 6 / I configured in RAID-5 right now with the 6th disc as a 480 GB SSD.   I currently own WINDOWS 2012 R2 installed.   Windows 2012 sees the TB 5 x 2 as a 7.27 TB HDD and the 480 GB SSD as a second hard drive.

  I heard the Windows 2012 R2 storage solution is best.  I want to convert the TB 5 x 2 hard drives just so R2 2012 Windows can control it.  I have the following questions:

  1. What do I have to go in PERC 6 / I controller and remove the RAID 5 and create a virtual disk for each 2 TB as a RAID-0 disk drive so that Windows can see each as separate hard drive?

  2. each of the 2 TB is a SATA II drive.  PERC 6 / I can only support up to 2 TB to 3 Gbps.  What is the best way to do it?  Can I upgrade to SATA III drives or 6 Gbps?  This server which will support at all?  I have

  3. If I install a SATA III controller in the PCIe slot, how can I plug SATA III drives to the card.  All drives are connected to the server to forward now.

  4 If a disk fails, Dell R710 will still flash light orange on the forehead to show what defective hard drives?  People still hot to swap the drive?

  5. Windows 2012 R2 will be able to tell what defective hard drives?  With 5 x 2 to for the storage and 480 GB put in place in the SSD for tiered storage, which is the best way to configure it for performance?  Simple volume or mirror?  How many drives can fail until Windows cannot recover from the failure?

  Please advise on the best way to convert more software raid WINDOWS 2012 R2.  Thanks for the help in advance!

  1. This is the only way to make available to Windows as separate disks, as the PERC 6 does not support the RAID/JBOD.

  2. the PERC 6 supports a maximum drive size of 2 TB. The material is limited to 3 Gbps. You can use 6 GB/s drives, but they will operate as discs 3 Gbps.

  3. you will need to connect a cable from the backplane to the new controller, instead of the 6 PERC. Backplane may not support 6 GB/s speed, if you plug a controller 6Gbps 6Gbps drives and they bind upward to 3 Gbps, that is why.

  4. Yes.

  5. Yes. How can fail depends on how you have set it up and how much data is there.

• Failed to create full-size VMFS Datastore on large virtual disk on Dell R710 5 2 t + 1, Raid 5 PERC6i controller

  ESXi4, I installed it on my Dell R710. She has 6 1 TB on PERC6i SAS drives, 5 discs do Raid 5 with hot spare disk 1. And I created 3 VD, 1 is from 40 GB to install the OS, 2 is 1 TB to contain the model ISO and VM and 3 is 2.6 TB to contain the VM.

  After installing ESXi4, I found only 2 created Datastore: 2. 39 GB 1 Datastore and 1 TB data store no data store has been created on the VD 2.6 TB.

  I tried to create it manually, but I found that only 635 GB in size can be created on this 2.6 t. Why? As I remembered ESXi4 can support up to 64 TB VMFS Datastore.

  The BIOS is 1.0.4.

  Someone had the idea?

  Take a look at this "vSphere and 2 TB LUN has changed VI3.x.

  http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/06/vSphere-and-2TB-LUNs-changes-from-vi3x.html

  Oh, a data store to 64 would consist of 32 degrees to ~ 2 TB. The limit on the size of the LUN behind the data store is 512 b less than 2 TB

• Dell R710 and ESXi 4.1 NIC issue.

  Please bare with me, I'm a newbe with vMware.

  My question is this:

  Got a new Dell R710 with Broadcom BCM5709 quad. Install ESXi 4.1 CD. Then, I created a virtual machine and install Win Server 2008 R2 64 bit.

  In vSphere Client under configuration-> network-> properties (per virtual switch)-> network-> adapter details maps I see the Broadcom adapter. But in Windows in the Device Manager the NIC comes as Intel PRO/1000MT.

  This is the expected behavior? ESXi support a pilot intel virtual any? or must we show Broadcom NIC.

  If this is not the expected behavior, please suggest a solution.

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community,

  what you see is expected and in design. ESX mask the real hardware and presents a virtual hardware to virtual machines. In this way, you are able to move the virtual machine across different hosts and even VMware Workstation, player,... without a lot of changes.

  André

• Reference Dell R710 enable HyperThreading on vSphere 4.1

  Hi all experts VM.

  I just buy Dell R710 server and installed Vmware ESX 4.1 on it.

  vmware configuration, I found that the "HyperThreading" does not.

  but I check the BIOS, it is already active.

  It is all set up on BIOS, I missed?

  attach with the show of the "HyperThreading" display not active on client vSpherer.

  Take a look at Intel® Xeon® Processor E5506

  Intel® Hyper-Threading technology no.

• 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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• 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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• 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 R710 con disco rotto [GRO]

  Buongiorno, ho a server DELL R710 fuori co.

  HO a disco rotto.

  The error e he following:

  3 E1810 hard drive fault. Review & clear SALT

  MI servirebbe una offer by uno in sostituzione.

  Stiamo contattando by mail

  Saluti

• Reference Dell r710 upgrade to the idrac-7.

  Hello

  I have a few with idrac6 express dell r710.

  I want to upgrade to version business to use the kvm console.

  I know who to buy Ent idrac6 material to replace.

  But I want to upgrate to business idrac7 instead off idrac6 Ent.

  Is able to upgrade to idrac7 Ent or just Ent r710 idrac6?

  Please advice!

  Thank you.

  anhhuyla @.

  Anhhuyla,

  The R710 will support not using the iDrac 7, as is logical is incorporated into the Gen 12 systems themselves. To improve the iDrac6 at the enterprise level, you must add the Works Council (part number K869T or J675T) seen below.

  

  This will allow the use of the console remotely.

  Let me know if it helps.

• 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.

• I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I upgraded to ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 ESxi now when I ping the esx host, it fails.

  I was able to ping before the update. Test management system also fails to ping the default gateway.

  I sent a private message you, could answer you on this one here? Got iso's, he's now testing in my lab, but I don't have that kind of network cards, you will need to do the real test for me.

• 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

• 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.