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Hello every one. And today I am need your help. May be some one knows how I can check S.M.A.R.T. my disk on this motherboard? My operation system is Windows Server 2008 r2. I know what this old version of motherboard and operation system, but she is work very well and I want to upgrade her work...

Right now I’m trying to erase 2 SAS drives but I came to the problem that I can’t just use a adaptor from SATA to SAS and plug it into my pc. So now I’m trying to find a SAS controller so I can plug it in to my pc and erase them. I’m new to server so I don’t know what type of controller I need...

Hello, I was able to get an R630 last yea & have been having fun with it. Throughout the year I've been able to get various pieces to connect to an external disk array. I got a PERC H830 RAID card direct from Dell on sale. After some less the scrupulous sellers on Ebay sold me a "new in box"...

Hey, I got a new board recently to upgrade my oddball UIO case server, it's an X10SRW-F, which is like a WIO form factor X10SRL-F My BIOS is rev 3.22 (latest) and IPMI Redfish 3.9 (also latest - just updated both last night) I was really excited to set this board up and retire my X9SPU-F, but...

First post, hope I've got the correct forum for this question. I'm about to build my first ESXi server, partly to run a vm to replace a hp microserver (gen 7, running ubuntu) for serving audio, and for running multiple VMs to experiment with containerization/kubernetes for the day job. I want...

Hi, I’m having troubles searching on internet SAS HBA controllers that allow me to configure my hard drives in JBOD mode. I searched for the LSI 9211-8i to be a good card but it is not well explained how to configure it to work in JBOD mode. What I need is that my drives are treated as a singole...

Hi, I'm building a custom rack mount storage server (it's my first time) and I choose a Chenbro RM23612 chassis (6GB/s backplane with 3 mini-sas ports) for this. For this build, I need my hard drives to show as one to the OS and I don't need redundancy: on internet I found that JBOD should be...

so i got myself a new 2TB s840 STEC SAS SSD, Z16IZF2E-2TBUCZ to use as vm-datastore for multiple esxi hosts. The Storage-Server is an AllinOne ESXi host, whose Specs are.... Mainboard: X9SRL-F CPU: Xeon E5-1620v2 RAM: 96GB Chassis: SM836 Controller...

Hi All, After years of no issues I decided to check for a firmware upgrade and stumbled upon: Version: 24.12.0-0039 , 09/01/2017 and figured hey it's a recent one. Went over here: IBM Support and downloaded the .exe Ran the .exe and selected 'update'; two minutes after pressing update it...

Evening all, I am in the process of building a home ESXi server and have run into a couple of different issues. Was hoping someone might know more than I (easy enough in this case) and could possibility give me a bit of direction... This is the system that I've put together so far...