Hi

We recently replaced Virtual infrastructure and have installed 2xDell PowerEdge R640 servers and 1 Storage.
The servers and SAN is connected with SAS connections.

During procuring these new servers, our core switch was a 1Gig switch, so I asked Dell to add 1Gig and 10Gig Lan cards.
On the ESX servers, I can see that there are 2 separate LAN cards and each of them have 4 Ports.

First card is a 1 Gig card which is connected to the 1Gig core switch at the moment.
(4xPorts of Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720)

Second card is 10Gig card and none of the ports are connected.
(4xPorts of Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-T) Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet BCM5720 .

Now we are going to replace our core switch Core switch and the new core switch is a 10Gig switch

On the ESX server, I would like to remove the LAN cable connected to 1Gig port and connect it to the 10 Gig LAN port.

Firstly: Do I have to configure the same IP address that was setup on 1Gig port to 10 Gig Ports on the server.
Or do I need to set up a different IP address on the 10Gig card.

Secondly: If I have to configure the same IP address or different IP address, how do I configure the IP address.

Any help would be great and thanks in advance.

Hi,
What is the difference between Dell PowerEdge FX2s and Dell PowerEdge FC830?
What are they used for?

Thanks,
tjie

Hi Experts,

One of my PC's at work started to crash and this is what I have been told by technician.

He advised that there was a 'lost disk error' from the C drive, indicating the drive needs to be replaced.

Dell Optiplex 7020, SN: XXXZZ
-confirmed internal C drive is crashed and failing. need to be replaced ASAP
-Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512G,
-created opportunity

Since I have many programs installed there which not all have replacement installation disks, in addition to many custom settings...

I'm wondering if there is something I can do to fix that error, at least for the time being...?


Thanks

There is the warning flashing indicator light on the MD3200, and it is a failed battery for the cache on
one of the raid controllers. I just received the replacement battery from Dell (and not sure how to replace it). Somebody would give me the instruction to do it safely please.

Thanks,
tjie

I am running an dell r720xd esxi 6.0.0, 15169789 lab.  I create a volume on an Equallogic ps6500. on the lab host, set my access policy and added the iscsi initiator. On the host i have 4 nics. 0 an 1 for management. 2 and 3 for vm traffic and iscsi. The host shows the iscsi vmkernal bindings are compliance and after setting dynamic discover for the dell equallogic group IP, it finds the LUN. However it shows the iscsi path as not used and the paths are not visible. whats weird is that i can ping only one of the equllogic NIC's (192.168.100.115) from esxi and not the others nor the group IP. (192.168.100.150). I can ping the iscsi VLAN gateway from the host lab (192.168.100.1).  from another host connecting to the same SAN i can ping all.  on the lab server iscsi is set to jumbo frames. i have tried to remove the iscsi adapter from the host and reboot/re-add but the same behavior.  I have two other hosts that i was able to connect to the LUN with no issues so i know its something with my lab host.  Any thoughts on what i may be missing are appreciated.

 

I asked this question about 3-4 years ago. At that time the death combo was a Dell Optiplex 3040 and a Intel SSD drive. The issue was that on occasion the computer would boot with a "hard drive not found" error. The fix was simply to power down the PC then turn it back on. I found a thread about Intel SSD drives doing that in Dell Laptops but no references to it happening in Dell Desktop.

   As a little side note I have since ditched Intel SSD drives. They are pieces of junk but anyway.... today I had a customer call and the same thing happened to a Dell Optiplex 3070 (the most recent model) and you guessed it.... an Intel 540s Series SSD. So the problem with Dell Optiplexes and Intel SSDs still exists. Has anyone else come across it yet and is there a fix?

adding a second drive, I see it in my BIOS but do not see it in Windows 10
Dell Precision T3600 tag # JWYC7Y1 the original drive is fine and it's using a PERC H310 controller card NO RAID
trying to add a second drive, please advise thanks

Hey everyone,

The office bought 17 new Dell Optiplex 5060's with Windows 10 Pro. I want to load the company software and run all the updates but I haven't done a large image project since ghosting disk to disk lol.

Could someone give me the steps they use (and software of choice) to create a bootable image of finished desktop that I can use on a USB. It would save a ton of time.

Thank you as always.

Setting up small 12 user network. Very tight budget
Bought Dell Server with 16gb ram,  Xeon CPU E3-1225 3.30Ghz
(1) 2TB SSD.   (1) 500GB SSD

Bought and installed Windows 2016 Standard.
Installed it with AD on the 2TB SSD

Bought Exchange 2016

I've noticed that it's probably not good to put Exchange on this same machine (Although some have said with such a small amount of users it might be ok?), and buying another machine might not be possible yet, so my questions are:

Can I do a hyper-v guest install on this machine and put exchange there?
If so.. What advice on setting up the Hyper-V guest for exchange? Like how much ram to allocate or space.

Any advice on the actual installation of Exchange in the guest VM?
I did see that it should be on it's own drive (thereby my 2nd SSD that's 500GB).

Finally...

Advice on how to connect it to the AD that's on the machine.

Thanks!

I have several issues in my layer2 topology. This is a mixed switch environment (Dell and Cisco). Presently one of my Dell switches is the root bridge, and I want to promote the Cisco switch ( where my servers are attached) to the root bridge. I also have some protocol mismatches;
1. the cisco switches have LLDP, CDP and fast spanning tree running.
2. the dell switches have only spanning tree running.

I have ethernet ports flapping (going up and down) on every switch. What would be the best approach to clear these issues.

I use Windows 10. I am seeking an EQUALIZER program for my Dell M4800 Precision laptop. The program must have the capability of cut & boost each band + and - 10 as minimum. 12 - 15 dB preferred. It must have a minimum of 10 bands. If any Expert has any personal experience please let me know which program you use. It need not be free,

The user has Windows 10 Pro running on a Dell mini tower.  They have either 8 or 16 GB of RAM

They are experiencing a delay when typing.  They say sometimes they have to press a key twice to get a character to appear.

If I control their computer remotely using TeamViewer, the characters appear as fast as I type.

I can certainly turn off startup items.  Is there anything else that I can check?

Thanks.