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recently had a couple Dell-branded 5100 PRO M2 drives (installed in BOSS-S1 cards in some PowerEdge M640's) die. naturally, the Dell version (model MTFDDAV240TCB-1AR1ZABDA) of this drive seems to be long out of production, and is super expensive. i bought a few of the standard, non-customized...

I shut down all services for a service interruption and moved all of my enclaves to another location. Upon bringing everything back up one of my R420 servers would not respond. There was nothing available on the LCD panel on the front. We hooked up a monitor to the server to troubleshoot and...

Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this thread about iDrac questions I have. I'm planning on buying a Dell R720 which is listed as having iDrac. Just that, it only lists as having iDrac. I will make some questions to the seller to understand which version we are talking about, but in...

Hello, I need some help on a project that I am working on. I apologize for the length, but I wanted to be thorough. Background: I am a CCNA guy, server noob, who works in IT and through my job, I was able to acquire a lot of free decommissioned equipment from various data centers and server...

Hi all, I've recently taken possession of a Dell SC7020 storage unit (Compellent) after a business went belly up, but am having great difficulty in getting the unit online / functional. Specifically, I am unable to access the Web GUI of SCOS and cannot discover the unit via the Dell Storage...

Hi, Few weeks ago, I tried to update my system via WM Ware OMSA. After 3 hours of ... nothing happening anymore, I restarted server. Since this time, the server display on boot "Alert! iDRAC not responding." and reboot. At second reboot, I'm still having the error but the server boot. (FAN are...

Hi, Trying to configure ldap authentication on idrac 9 Certificate Validation disabled Generic LDAP enabled Use Distinguished Name to Search Group Membership Yes LDAP Server Address 10.10.24.4 Bind DN cn=ldap_client,ou=Users,dc=domain,dc=com Bind Password enabled Update Bind Password...

Good evening all. I picked up an R720 last month with an iDRAC7 active Enterprise license and would like to update the iDRAC firmware. The current firmware version is: 1.57.57 (Build 04), last updated Oct 2 09:17:51 2014 I see the latest version is: iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller v. 2.63.60.62...

Hi all, I bought this server a while ago but recently I decided to go a different direction with the hardware I want to use. I'm open to offers that are reasonable, so feel free to message me. Also I will prioritize local pickup over shipping. Located in the DC metro area.

Not sure if this is the right location for this question, but here goes... I've got a T420, and I'm looking for an iDRAC 7 Enterprise license and module. Ebay is giving me listings between ~$30 and $200, some for just the module, some for just the license, some for both. Many of them coming...

I have 3 Dell R715s and have been going through hell getting them updated the last couple days. Turns out the Lifecycle Controller was too old to go through auto updates, so I had to find an old CentOS OM disk to get them updated to the point it will work through Lifecycle Controller. Everything...