Recently, I ran across a gentleman who was having some difficulty installing a SSL certificate to his iDrac6 and iDrac7 systems. The GUI upload for some reason was not working and he didn’t really care because he had to install the certificate and key on dozens of Dell PowerEdge Servers. The best way to go
Sometimes the cache will need to cleared on a PERC in order to create a new Virtual Disk. This can happen for a number of reasons – VD going to an offline state improperly, system shutting down improperly, hard drives going bad, etc. Here is the OpenMange Server Administrator(OMSA) error message you are likely to
To keep up system maintenance on your Dell PowerEdge machine, it is a good idea to view your PERC log to see if there are any outstanding errors. The PERC log can be pulled through OMSA or a DSET report. One thing that you will want to look out for is your RAID controller battery.
Your server has been working for years with no hiccups and you could not be happier purchasing your Dell product. Suddenly things take a turn for the worst, and it now operates at a snails pace. What was once a top of the line server is now as slow as your Pentium 3 Desktop that’s stored
