Comparing Blades vs. 1U Systems for Compute Node Use We use fairly basic compute node configurations dual CPU, 2 GB per core RAM (which might be considered larg...
Dell Deployment Toolkit Dell provide a toolkit for automating configuration of their systems. A Linux environment can be booted from CD or via PXE which includes...
Updating Dell Firmware Dell provides (officially unsupported?) yum OMSA (OpenManage Server Administrator) repo. This includes the omreport/omconfig and other "srv...
Links * http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/Storlink/ Dell Manuals Physical Inspection Have suffered shipping damage on an MD1200, check that mounting...
BIOS Settings Turbo Mode http://kolbusa.livejournal.com/71066.html ROCKS Install Issues In ROCK 4.3, the LOM for these is not supported, see ??? for info on upd...
Calling Dell Regardless of the apocryphal tech support phone call horror stories, calling Dell for hardware service is quite easy. For these systems you will spea...
Lifecycle Controller The 11th generation (and newer) PowerEdge servers have a built in system designed to assist with managing firmware updates, hardware diagnost...
Fun with omconfig and omreport These programs allow reporting and controlling many hardware functions of newer Dell hardware. Install the srvadmin all rpm to get ...
PXE Boot the Dell Disk Firmware Update Dell has released a firmware update package for many types of hard disks. The update must be done with the disks offlne. ...
This page provides general information about Dell hardware and software. Hardware * DellHardwareNotes * DellR610Particulars * DellMD1X00Commissioning ...