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

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• 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.

• Host graphics power indicates zero, ESXi 4.1 on Del PE 2950

  Hello

  Thank you for having a look at my question.

  We lack a Dell Poweredge 2950 and ESXi 4.1

  The power graph would be helpful for us because we have virtualized three native machines on a single virtual machine host, and I'd like to see how energy consumption varies with the load.  However the graphic (with the selected host in the inventory) still reads zero, or at least the line there at the bottom of the graph with no change - I guess that it is zero.

  This indicator only going to read some hardware?

  Thank you!

  As you think, it needs a hardware or BIOS support not present in the PE2950.  However if you select the DRAC (ctrl-E in the BIOS to assign an IP address, which runs either Gb1 (shared) or the enrobeur dedicated management port) you should find info in there power consumption ([go to http://[ip-address], username default root/calvin).

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• 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

• Battery on the Controller PERC 6 / i integrated Poweredge R900 and 2950.

  Hi, we have this error below Poweredge R900 and Poweredge 2950 for 4 days now, I hope that he will be gone after 7 days (such as by Maximum learning delay)

  Battery on the Controller PERC 6 / i integrated:

  Name battery 0
  Degraded state
  Loan of State capacity
  Learn the State duly
  Next time learn 0 hours
  Learn 7 days 0 hours maximum
  Learn the Auto Mode

  In case the error continues after 7 days, is there any solution to this? or replace the battery if error remains.

  I had been searching for the right part No. battery so that we can order in advance, thank you for giving the battery part No. for Poweredge R900 and 2950 Controller PERC 6 / i integrated.

  Thank you much in advance.

  concerning

  Rais info is stored on the discs should not be a problem

  R900 page 84 support.dell.com/.../XK9460D.pdf

  2950 page 74 support.dell.com/.../hom.pdf

• 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!

  
  

• 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:

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  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

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  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

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• PowerEdge 2950 Dell computer virtual nic problems...

  I have 2 hosts, Dell Poweredge 2950 host A and host B.

  They both have the same version of esx, bios version and nic cards...  The NICs are

  1-dual Broadcom BCM5708 Xtreme

  1 - quad Intel 82575 GB Nic

  To restart the virtual machine to A host, I don't have any issues, but on host B. It is several times the card network does not work on virtual machines after you restart the virtual machine, 'not host '... The two hosts see their NICs very well.

  My work is about... to turn off manually the and solve the NICs thos machines after the restart, while they are on host b. I migrate them to host A, and they are still working that host...

  I did the esxcfg-NICs - l and found no difference on network cards.

  Perplexed, any ideas. ??

  Steve Holzman

  For me, this looks like a network with the physical network problem.

  Please make sure that all ports of the switch to the network of the virtual machine are set to Spanning Tree Port Fast (it is the name of Cisco switches)

  André

• 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 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

• Dell Poweredge 2950 Raid battery

  Hello

  I would like to know if I replace the battery Raid for the Dell 2950 poweredge server would be the raid configuration to be indented upward from zero?

  Or should I replace the server should start up as normal without any problems?

  I need to replace the battery raid for a Dell poweredge server 2950 and I would appreciate if someone can answer my question above.

  Thank you.

  No, the RAID array does NOT affect the configuration.

• 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

• 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).

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• PowerEdge 2900 and 2950 problems

  I need help please! I know my way around the PC, but I'm lost when it comes to servers. Recently, I picked up several servers which I had planned on setting up in my house. They all came without hard drives, I replaced it, and I was planning on installing Ubuntu 14.04.2 but I'm not one of them to boot from the CD drive. I went through the installation program and made sure the boot sequence begins with the CD, but they don't always work. I even hit f11 at startup up and forced to start from the CD but they say always "no found boot device" or something like that. The first is a PowerEdge 2900 Tower and the other is a PowerEdge 2950 rack mounting. I went through the 80 pages of post on the forum here and couldn't find something that helped. Please help because I don't know what else to do.

  Server 2012 integrated controller drivers, but have you configured and initialized the RAID in the CTRL-R utility?