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I have just removed every ram but 2 (both on right side of each cpu having the back of c6220 in front of you) cmos bactery.
The system was able to show system screen.
I has even recognized my Samsung EVO 850 ssd on a 3,5 adapter.
Now I am installing Windows Server 2008 R2 datacenter EVAL.
(Other updates will come in the next ours/days)
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Things discovered so far:
On Node 1 I have a BBC log full.
Need to discover how to empty this log.
I have only 81920GB of ram, 80 GB instead of 96 on first node. There is some faulty ram somewhere.
I have no SAS array, only included IDE controller. My setup is made of 12 3,5 drive bays.
Node 1 has: [ 0 ][ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]
Node 2 has: [ 0 ][ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]
Node 4 has: [ 0 ][ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]
Node 3 has not bay at all !
I have read there is some backplane configurator around.
Thing to discover: How many disk could be connected via IDE per single node ?
Already discovered: IDE controller does not read SAS drives.
Also:
Thing to discover: Purchasing a RAID board: How many disk could be connected per single node ?
Todo List:
- Discover How to Empy BMC Log
- Discover DELL repository for drivers/firmware utilities.
- Update Bios on every node
- Discover How many disk could be connected per single node in IDE mode
- Try speed of a single Samsung 850 Evo SSD drive
- Try Samsung 850 Evo Array on this setup
- Discover if chipset C602 has TRIM support
- Investigate on Dell Management Software
- Purchase a SAS Board. Try speed of those 3,5 SAS drives I have purchased
- Discover if SAS and IDE nodes could be mixed on the backpanel (new)
- Discover How many disk could be connected per single node in RAID mode
- Discover the difference between SAS 2008 and those higher level adapters
- Purchase a SAS 2,5 to SAS 3,5 Adapter, if exists, to experiment with those spare HP and seagate drives I have
- Discover if I can use Both SAS2008 mezzanin board and TCK99 10Gb board together
- Try SAS 2008, Infiniband and TCK99 together
- Discover if Windows 2016 could be instaled with newer BIOS
- Discover if ESX 6,5 could be installed with newer BIOS
- Discover What is C410x expansion chassis for GPU
- Learn how to do some bios optimization
If someone has already some answers is welcome to reply !