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* The rails that came with it only worked with big square or bog round holes in the vertical rails of the racks. Sice our racks have small circular threaded holes we had to order adapters (~$45) to be able to install them in the racks. Randy gave us a set of rails for circular holes, but it did not match the holes on the sides of the Dell server. But Randy told us that we should be able to order the rails for threaded holes. | * The rails that came with it only worked with big square or bog round holes in the vertical rails of the racks. Sice our racks have small circular threaded holes we had to order adapters (~$45) to be able to install them in the racks. Randy gave us a set of rails for circular holes, but it did not match the holes on the sides of the Dell server. But Randy told us that we should be able to order the rails for threaded holes. | ||
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| + | * I connected the PowerEdge to network using its Ethernet interface #1 and requested an IP address from the computer center based on the MAC address of the Ethernet port #1. But when I tried to connect to network the light on the switch would stop blinking indicating that the switch port got disabled. After checking with Brent Morris and Paul Letta we suspected that this must be the IPMI services are interfering with that Ethernet port. So I disabled the IPMI by rebooting it and pressing <CTRL>R just when IPMI stuff appeared. After disabling it the port on the switch did not get blocked. Note that this server does not have a dedicated IPMI interface. We will need to figure out how to enable IPMI services so that Vardan's scheme would work with this. | ||
Revision as of 22:24, 29 February 2012
Notes on the first Hall D PowerEdge 710 Dell server
- We ordered this unit to learn more about Dell servers and their performers, how to install them in the rack-room, how to configure the software them.
- The rails that came with it only worked with big square or bog round holes in the vertical rails of the racks. Sice our racks have small circular threaded holes we had to order adapters (~$45) to be able to install them in the racks. Randy gave us a set of rails for circular holes, but it did not match the holes on the sides of the Dell server. But Randy told us that we should be able to order the rails for threaded holes.
- I connected the PowerEdge to network using its Ethernet interface #1 and requested an IP address from the computer center based on the MAC address of the Ethernet port #1. But when I tried to connect to network the light on the switch would stop blinking indicating that the switch port got disabled. After checking with Brent Morris and Paul Letta we suspected that this must be the IPMI services are interfering with that Ethernet port. So I disabled the IPMI by rebooting it and pressing <CTRL>R just when IPMI stuff appeared. After disabling it the port on the switch did not get blocked. Note that this server does not have a dedicated IPMI interface. We will need to figure out how to enable IPMI services so that Vardan's scheme would work with this.
