Thanks, Anybody know which video chip the C6100 uses?
Cheers
sutin
Actually, starting with Windows 7 this got much better. I did have an issue installing Windows Server 2012 that I was able to get past by installing the OS on a different server then swapping the drive to the other chassis.I got Windows 2012 running a little faster than expected. I had a hd laying next to my SAN but couldn't remember what was on it. I threw it in the C6100 and before I could change the boot order it was booting into Win12k. Turns out it was the boot disk I used to test W12k on the SAN box. Thought I would wait till it blue screened or some threw some other error but it didn't. It detected drivers and booted up into Windows and all looks good. Everything is seen normally except the Infiniband card which needs the firmware upgrade.
Well that was painless. Going to have to keep my magic Win12k boot disk to use on future systems.
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Greetings,
I am long time lurker, I am very interested in getting a Dell 6100 series, but would like to know if anyone has tried installing Windows 2012 Server on it? I did not see many drivers on the Dell site for this server.
Cheers
Justin
What IB cards are you using? When installing WinOFED onto W2012 it updated my CX2 VPI cards from 2.9.10 to 2.9.12 which is an intermediate firmware. See the table about half way down on this page.
Update: The process for building the custom firmware file was quite easy. I created a new version 2.9.12 firmware for the Dell cards using the instructions provided by Mellanox at Mellanox Technologies: Support. Starting with the raw 2.9.1200 firmware files, I edited the file MHQH29C_A1-A2.ini, changing its name to DEL09A0000009.ini and editing it to change the name attribute to DEL09A0000009 and the PSID attribute to DEL09A0000009. After that, mlxburn.exe worked perfectly to create the new firmware file and burn it to the card. Command on Windows was: mlxburn.exe -fw fw-ConnectX2-rel.mlx -dev mt26428_pci_cr0...It looks like I'll be building a custom firmware for the Dell cards some time very soon.