.  This computer needs to host quickbooks, standard basic office apps will be installed and used on it; and other computers will sometimes remote desktop into it.   This computer is obviously overkill but we want Dell RAID 1 controller redundancy.  Is there a more reasonable Dell spec with real significant saving to be had.  I'm not just saying let's reduce quantity in these items to save a couple hundred bucks.  I'm thinking RAID redundancy but more like a $1000 dell tower.  PS - We do need the dual display port video card included.  Anyway, your thoughts?

I currently have a NVidia GeForce GT 610 graphics card (see attached image with available ports on adapter card). Will this card support three Dell UltraSharp 24" - U2412M monitors? If so, what type of extra connector do I need to support the third monitor?
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I have a power edge 2950, i installed windows server 2016 on it to use it as a storage server, but i get the following message: ''E1211 romb Batt'' i have installed a new raid battery, but the problem persist.
Please advice.

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We have Dell power edge R730 server of CPU  Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz shipped with the Vmware ESXi6.0 U1 emdedded image on Flash Media how to upgrade it to Vmware ESXi 6.7, I am not having vcenter for this host, can you please suggest alternative way other than vcenter , thanks in advance.

Dell OptiPlex 7050 mmf.  Can't use dual monitors.  The machine has 2 video ports, 1 hdmi and 1 Dell Video port.  I connect one monitor to the HDMI port with a straight HDMI cable and it works great.  I can connect the other monitor to the Dell video port with an Dell to HDMI cable and it works great.  However I can't get both monitors to work at the same time.  If I click on detect monitors I get a message that says no other monitors detected even when both are connected.  I get the same message no matter which monitor I start with.

Hello everyone and thank you for reading this.
I currently have three monitors on my desk.  Two Dell U2415 and one Dell U3011.  The 2415s are new and the 3011 seems to be failing after about 4 years.

My question: Is it feasible to use a high-end TV as a monitor?  I don't do gaming and so the refresh rate won't be an issue I don't think.  My work consists of building websites, doing graphic arts and doing a good bit of architectural drawings using AutoCad.

I'm looking at this TV

We are are a single site, single domain with 70 users. We still run our servers in house. I have a dedicated server running Exhange 2010. It's a Dell Powerdge T430 with 32GB RAM and 5 SAS disks on a single H710 controller card. One channel runs 2 x 136GB disks in a RAID 1 array that contains the OS, exchange program files and the logs. The other channel runs 3 x 300GB disks in a RAID 5 array that contains the information store.

The server is 4 years old now and i am planning to replace it in the next few weeks. When i get the new server i will be moving to exchange 2013. Why not Exchange 2016 i hear you ask? We only have CALS for 2013 and as this is probably the last exchange server we will have in house before moving over to the cloud it doesn't make sense to upgrade the licences.

I would appreciate some advice on the disk configuration for my new server. I'm inclined to go for a Dell T440 with 32GB RAM. However my disk choices last time were based on some best practice info that may well be obselete now and overkill for my set up. Can anybody advise whether for my level of users i could get away with 2 x decent SAS disks in a RAID 1 array to run everything or do i need still need to segment the logs and store even at my low level of usage?

I installed Windows 10 Pro 64 1709 16299.125 on a Dell Optiplex 3010.
I removed all the partitions on the hard drive before it started (using the install DVD tools).
When done, there were two partitions.
Then I installed Windows.

The first time I did this, it seemed to work and I did quite a bit of work on the install (oops).
Then when I rebooted it, it wouldn't boot.
I tried bootrec, etc.  to no avail.  Nothing seems to fix this thing.

bootrec /fixboot gives access denied
I have read that 1709 has a problem in this regard and found instructions to deal with the issue.
But it talks about an EFI partition which doesn't seem present - at least with that name.

So, I have started over.
What should I be looking to do when the install is done in order to be able to boot thereafter?
The HD tests fine.

Server 2016 Standard with two running Hyper-V VM's. One running as the PDC and the other as the Exchange server. Months ago we had to turn off the original Exchange server because it was having problems and Dell didn't ship the operating system. To get exchange up and running  we installed a third VM using a trial version of Server 2016 Standard. This configuration has been running for months without any errors. To clarify VM's; 1. PDC, 2 Exchange (original), 3. Exchange2 (2016 trial version).

The VM running the trial version of Server 2016 (Exchange2) we want to power down and migrate the exchange server, or EDB to the original Exchange VM.

What is the best way to move the exchange server from one VM to the other? Ideally with the least or no downtime to end users? Is this possible?

As of now I've copied the EDB from Exchange2 and am thinking of using a tool to migrate this from EDB directly into the new server.

I have a server 2012 R2 which is having difficulties with Remote Web Access.

Either internally, externally or browsing the web site directly from IIS 6.2, we get the (Blue) Dell Remote Web Access Page, it has language at the top and the option to choose between desktop or mobile at the bottom.  However, there is no login box so we cannot access our company files.

This happens no matter which browser we use

I was hoping someone could help shed some light on the issue.  Thank you in advance

I have a question about a RAID6 configuration with (8) 600GB 10K RPM drives on a Dell PE330.  The T330 chassis can accommodate up to (8) drives.

Phillip Elder suggested the following to a previous question titled "VM 101 Question!"  Posted on 2017-11-15:

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RAID 6 is just fine for a virtualization stack. Many questions answered here: Some Hyper-V Hardware & Software Best Practices.

Two RAID 6 logical disks: 75GB for host OS and balance to guest data (RAID 6 6x 900GB = ~3.5TB)

Once the host OS is in set up the second partition and once the Hyper-V Role is set up make sure to set the configuration and VHDX file setting to that partition.

I believe in order to setup each RAID6 logical volume it requires at least (4) drives.  So, how does the above recommendation make sense.  I am just trying to understand the premise.

Are we saying, setup  each RAIbD6 logical array with (4) 600Gbs disks which would provide approximately 1.2TB of storage each.  That does not make much sense to me if that is the case.  Placing hyper-v os on the first logical disk use no more than 100Gbs of storage.  Trying to make sense of this response.
 
I looked at the following article about RAID6 logical disks:  

https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/infocenter/release-2015-1/index.jsp?topic=/maxview_ug.xml/Topics/RAID_6_Arrays.html…