PowerEdge c2660 BMC ip address wont change on changing the controller card:
One of our servers was crashing. We replaced it with another same configuration but with a different IP address,.
We should be able to go to the BIOS BMC settings and change IP . It changes, we save.
But when we logon again after a reboot we don't see the new IP address but it changes back to old IP.
Ajay
I have a small business, with 5 workstations. We run a PowerEdge SC440 (intel xeon 2.13 ghz, 3.00 Gig Ram. We run a few programs on it, nothing major. Its pretty basic.
I need to upgrade server software so my ? is, should I just upgrade the entire server to something new or just the software? Is it a waste to put new software in an older machine like that or would it be wasteful to get a new server when the old one would be just fine for our simple networking needs with just updating the server software?
Thanks for any feedback!
Hi All,
Can we use SSD on a Dell T130? in the data sheet, it doesn't indicates SSD, though I saw some forums that says that it will. Can someone verify this? maybe dell doesn't sell SSD specific for this model, so maybe to solve this issue, we can opt to buy 3rd party SSD and put it inside our T130?
Thank you in advance.
Hi,
I'm new to Dell, and we will be deploying a R430 with the client.
What are the things i need to take not to make our deployment errorless.
we will be installing a windows 2016 on 1 server and a vmware exsi on the other.
kindly include your best practice in doing this things.
Thank you in advance
Hi guys,
i have a 2 Dell R210 II running an E3-1230 V2 CPU and 8gb ram. the server boots (well sounds like it does) the blue light comes up on the back but i get no VGA output. this is happening on two servers which i thought was odd. these 2 servers have been tested and were working previously.
I'm having issues with Secure boot on a Power Edge T20 but only when running Windows Server 2016.
I'm trying to figure out if this is a BIOS issue or a hardware issue or if anyone else is experiencing it.
BIOS: A02-A12
Boot Type: UEFI with Secure Boot Enabled
OS: Windows Server 2016 Standard (verified ISO)
Basically what happens is the server will not reboot it only hangs before reboot. When it goes to reboot. It sits at a black screen indefinitely. It does not get to the Dell BIOS Logo. It even gets as far as turning off USB devices like the keyboard. It will do a full shutdown though without issue. This actually happens even during OS install. The first reboot it during the install it hangs. If I turn off secure boot it works fine.
If I use Windows Server 2012 R2 with secure boot enabled it works fine as well.
I have tried it will all the published BIOS versions for the T20 and can reproduce it even on A12.
To reproduce: Set bios to defaults. Make sure Secure boot is enabled for UEFI. Try to reboot Windows Server 2016.
The Dell Poweredge T20 is certified for Windows Server 2016 as of BIOS A09.
I've got some PowerEdge 860s in a lab environment and I'm trying to get IPMI working for an oVirt cluster. I can configure and enable the BMC in the BIOS, and I can see it with ipmitool, do sel queries, see power status and make IPMI config changes no problem.
I can't get to the unit remotely for the life of me. It's on a shared NIC obviously, and that NIC is working fine for standard network traffic. It's on a tagged VLAN, and interestingly, if I try to use the same network/VLAN for the IPMI as is used on the 'core' port (different IP of course), with the vlan id set to the same VLAN as the 'core' port, it locks up the NIC port for all traffic.
I've changed the IPMI address to a new network/subnet, tagged and untagged, and I still can't get to it, but it doesn't lock up the NIC anymore.
I've done a bunch of looking, but can't find a definitive answer on whether there is any known issue that never got fixed with these systems where you can't use VLAN tagging on the port at all if you're using the BMC? That's about all I can figure, because I've got R610s in the same configuration and the BMC works great.
Are there some secrets I'm missing out there on using IPMI wtih PE860? Has my google-fu failed me again?
I'm showing that the system has Firmware Revision 1.75 for the BMC, which I believe is the latest, and it claims to support IPMI 1.5, which as I understand it means I likely won't be able to use lanplus, but that's not critical, I just need function in the lab, not highest levels of security.
Hello in my poweredge r630 I am not able to make this card to work
I've a dell 2 fiber channel card Qle2462 and this is the cause of kernel panic.
Without it I am able to install linux but I need this card.
I've update firmware of the card and server bios without no luck.
This is the error
Are there Ver2 T710 / T610/ T410 m/boards . If so what are the part numbers (and briefly the difference9s) between the Ver1 & Ver 2's m/boards )
thanks
Hello everyone,
One of our customers has experienced a very weird power failure recently and I have no clue what caused it and how to protect ourselves from such failures in the future. Hopefully somebody will be able to help me...
So basically we have got a panel with two R730 servers in it, each fitted with two redundant power supplies. The primary power supply in each server is fed from an UPS1 and the secondary power supply is fed from an UPS2, so we have got a full redundancy.
What happened is (as reported by the customer):
- the site engineer got called out to investigate a failure of the system (the servers are not accessible remotely, used in the oil and gas industry),
- on arrival he found out that that both servers were powered down,
- he tried to restart them, but was unable to - there was no response to the power button presses,
- he had a look at the server PSUs and noticed that the status lights (the green lights at the back of the PSUs) were off on all power supplies,
- he checked the breakers in the panel (all were on) and measured the voltage in the distribution board (all was OK, 230V coming from both UPS supplies),
- he decided to disconnect all the power leads from the power supplies for approx. 30 seconds and then reconnect them back, at this point the green status lights lit up,
- he then pressed the power button again and now the servers responded correctly (i.e. they started and the OS booted).
When I came to site on the following day I have reviewed the Windows Event Logs and found that the power supplies failed at approx. 14:30 and the power was restored (OS booted) at approx. 19:00.
However, when I checked in iDRAC there were no events at all to indicate that the power failure occurred at 14:30. There were no events at all since February (so the servers were running OK all the time), and the first event logged in iDRAC was around 19:00, when the engineer disconnected the power leads from the PSUs. So it looks like iDRAC was not aware of the actual power failure at all and though that the servers are running OK?
Here are mu thoughts:
- this could not have been an UPS failure - very unlikely for two power feeds to fail at the same time, plus there is other equipment in the panel (e.g. terminal servers) and it did not fail at all (checked the logs),
- could it have been a voltage spike/dip that caused the power supplies to "lock up",
- is it normal behaviour for the power supplies that the power leads have to be disconnected for a few seconds in order to restore normal operation (I assume it caused some sort of a restart),
Any thoughts appreciated, I could contact Dell support directly (the servers are still in warranty), but because this was a weird failure, I would rather see if anybody experienced something similar. My thoughts are that there is some sort of a bug in the firmware, that caused the PSUs to lock up, but I simply do not know.
I have a Dell r510 server which when I enter wmic csproduct uuid I get 'no instance(s) available'.
I have updated bios, I have re-installed operating systems (windows 2012 r2) but this information is still not revealed to the operating system.
Any ideas on why this information is not showing and I how I can reveal or add it?
Regards,
I have a T30 that works very well with non-ECC UDIMM DDR4 memory. We recently picked up a few T130 servers on a good deal. Considering the T30 and T130 use the same CPU series and use the exact same chipset, we expected that memory that works in the T30 would work in the T130. But that is not the case.
When I take the non-ECC UDIMM memory out of the T30 and put it in the T130, it immediately shows a screen saying the memory is incompatible. It seems that the system will ONLY work with ECC UDIMMS.
Since the T30 and T130 are identical CPU and chipset systems, does Dell program the T130 to fail with non-ECC memory?
What other reason could there be that non-ECC works in the T30 but not in the T130? The problem is, this ECC UDIMM memory required in the T130 is sort of uncommon and rare. And expensive. For a low-end server, why require expensive, odd-ball memory?
Did the T130 ever accept non-ECC and Dell modified the BIOS at some point to fail with them?
The control panel on my PE T610 sort of works.
The blue LED is very faint which makes it difficult to see the LCD text in normal situations. The the orange LED is bright when turned on due to fault notification, so it gets noticed when it needs to.
Luckily it seems a simple enough device so i was hoping i could possibly repair it.
With this in mind, can anyone provide some detail on the control panel connector pin out (it's "Item 15 CTRL_PNL Control panel connector" according to the technical guide book) ?
Cheers.
I am looking to upgrade the CPU in my PowerEdge T710. I have a socket-b mobo with a 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5530 in there now. I am hoping to get something over 3.4 GHz to replace it with. I was told a X5677 would work but I get an error "This CPU power rating is not supported". The E5530 CPU is an 80 watt and the X5677 is 130 watts. Is there a way to change the BIOS config or should I be looking for another CPU?
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Hello! I am pretty new to servers and i have had mine for about a month now, but i still cant use the idrac. I have 2 ethernet cables, one for internet and one for the idrac. I have tried resetting settings, changing ip, updating firmware. When i enter the ip either on my main pc or on the server it leads nowhere. Nothing loads, just an error that the site took to long to load
Hi!
I got a PE2800. When I turn it on, it shuts down after ~10 sec-s, after it shows the DELL logo on the monitor.
(of course it wouldn't be in a mission critical application)
Hi there. This is m first post.
I'm not an experienced administrator. I've done MCSE for Windows NT 4.0. but that was a long time ago.
Now I've bought mself a second hand T310 just for learning a new server system.
I've downloaded the 180 days evulauation windows server 2016 standard edition.
Installing it was not easy. i had to download the RAID HD drivers first in order or win server 2016 to recognize them.
During the BIOS setup I wiped the HD and created one phsical disk in the RAID Array. I have onl RAID 0.
Ater that win server did see my harddisk and the installtion itself wasn't that difficult.
I had one sata disk (Seagte 1Tb) left, and connected it to one of the internal SATA ports.There was one power connector left.
But now during startup it shows: WARNING: Dell's disk monitoring system has detected that drive on port F of the Serial ATA controller is operating outside of normal specifications. It is advisable to immediately backup your data and replace your harddisk drive b calling your support desk or Dell Inc.
Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run the system setup program.
But the hard disk just shows normall in this setup. It sees a "known"device a Seagate 1 Tb drive.
What does this message imply ?
Hi There,
I got DELL PowerEdge R720 that having a CPU1 Error. Since its already over warranty, I've replaced the proc with a new one.
Upon completion, I still encountered the CPU1 Error at the front panel and my server keep rebooting and can't get past BIOS setup page nor Lifecycle controller page.
If anyone can assist, your assistance and advise are highly appreciated.
below link are the image what my console showing:
I have a few hundred R730xd's that came in from the factory with a default boot order of PERC->PXE on Integrated NIC Port 1. There's a RAID 1 on the two SSDs in slots 24 and 25 by default it seems. When I boot them, they attempt to boot using the PERC H730P, which has no OS installed. Instead of moving on to try to PXE off the 1 gig, it just stops and tells me I ordered the server with no OS. In order to provision them, I now have to go one by one and boot them into the BIOS, delete the RAID 1, and then reboot them fully to get them to PXE. What's the point of having a boot order if it stops after the first device fails? Is there a way to actually get these to continue the boot order correctly without manually going through a few hundred nodes?