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Hi All, I have Dell PowerEdge R740 with RAID5 array built of 8 disks. I need to erase all data with no recovery possibility. Would Standard Disks (Overwrite Data) work for me? Also, why Cryptographic Erase Disks option is greyed out? Thanks in advance.

I have an R740 LFF with riser configuration 1B+2A+3A. I want to install a GPU that won't cause the fan minimum to increase due to being a third party PCIe card. Without the cards I've tried, fan minimum is 7% PWM. With the GPU installed the minimum is 29%. Inlet air temp is the same and PCI airflow

Hi all, Apologies for this boring question, A12 rack rails have been added to a server before getting it to the rack!! I need to undo the lot as the server might just sit on a shelf instead. Not sure how to do that if someone has any handy hints or a video please?

We are currently working through our network and found several severs that contain DSET Version 3.7.0. Does Dell provide the java license or will we need to remove this software?

Is there a way to fun a firmware update just on the iDrac firmware on all my servers at once?

Hello I'm using ipmitool to measure server power. # ipmitool -I lanplus -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -U root -P xxx dcmi power reading Instantaneous power reading: 129 Watts Minimum during sampling period: 15 Watts Maximum during sampling period: 292 Watts Average power reading over sample pe

I am writing to you regarding an issue I have been experiencing with my Dell PowerEdge T420 server. I recently replaced the CMOS battery, but I am receiving conflicting error messages.Immediately after the replacement, I received an error message stating "The CMOS battery has failed". However, short

So, I was given a task by my employer to recover data from a set of old servers he had acquired. The servers in question are two T440 tower servers and one R340 (as far as I could tell from the labeling). I have been able to boot up one of the towers and gain access via a boot drive. However, the o

Hi, I need to change the processor to become a base Frequency of 2.9 MHz can I do that for  PowerEdge R730 - Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4.

Hello! I just got new PowerEdge T160 server. 2 HDDs installed as RAID 1. I wanted to add additional HDD. However, I need plastic HDD carrier (caddy?) to hold HDD inside of PC. It's blue color, plastic, mount on side of HDD. There is tag (see attached photo). But I can't find any info about it. I nee

We have a Dell server under warranty with service tag: <Private data removed from public view. DELL-Admin>.We have sold to them the server, the first configuration when they bought the server was with 1 CPU ( AMD EPYC 7313).  They want to update the server with a second cpu, with th

Hello everyone, I'm assuming that I'm not doing something quite right or that I'm overlooking something. I have rolled out new local iDRAC users on a server using a template. I have created the template from a reference system The message after the job is done looks like this:  #### SummaryAct

Hello all, we have S4820T switches that we want to configure SNMP on it. When we try to configure the SNMP after going to config mode we are getting error: Error: Invalid input at "^" marker. sw01(conf)#snmp?                        ^% E

I have inherited an R730 unit at one of my customers that is running medical imaging software on it. The secondary drive is a RAID10 array of 6x Intel SSDC2KB48 480gb SSDs in a PERC H730 Mini (embedded) for a combined total of 1.34TB. It's almost full. I'd like to rebuild that array from raid10 to r

Hi all, Is it possible to convert a single disk to a RAID 1 on R250 server with S150 controller? This server will be delivered to us next week with only one disk and the second disk will be delivered next month so I don't want to wait to install server. So I would like to start with one disk and af

hi I need to find Dell PowerEdg R940 (IDRAC 9) MIB files. Please help me

Hi all I’ve recently changed my servers motherboard however the board is in a different chassis to the original is there any way to transfer the physical service tag on the chassis (one on the little sliding out bit of plastic) to the new chassis so it matches the motherboard

Is there anything from Dell about compatibility between the OMEVV plugin and the new vSphere 8.0.3 update? It's been out for a month now, but the OMEVV web page still shows compatibility with Update 2.

Hi folks, We have some issues with SAN storage causing kernel CPU locks/kernel crashes on a pair of Dell R740 servers (Oracle RAC), does this sound like a hardware issue related to perhaps a BIOS issue, would a later BIOS resolve these potentially? Oracle are suggesting it may be. I can provide a

I have a ticket number for a specific case & would like to know its status