Bare Metal Restores Windows Servers
This is kind of long but I am hoping someone can offer advice…. Our shop has about 400 windows server images, about half VM guests, about half physical. They are a mix of Win2000 (decreasing but still there), Win2003, and Win2008 server. My concern is the physical servers. We used to use Tivoli Storage Manager [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  4:49 PM
Dell PowerEdge, PowerEdge servers, Syncsort

Error message when installing Windows Server 2008 onto Dell PowerEdge 2800 x64bit
I’m trying to install 2008 x64bit on a poweredge 2800. RAID 1 is configure. When W2K8 installation cd ask where to install I select load driver, select the right PERC 4e, format the drive and click next, I get and error saying unable to find drive for installation…Can you help!

Answer Question   |  November 29, 2010  5:21 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge 2800, PowerEdge servers, RAID 1, RAID configuration, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 error messages

BIOS updates while system is running and without reboot
We need to do bios updates on our Poweredge 6800. They say that it can be done while the system is running and does not require a reboot. Is this true and if so how is that possible?

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  3:38 PM
BIOS, BIOS Update, PowerEdge, PowerEdge servers, Reboot

What does a dell remote access card do?
What does a dell remote access card do? Can I safely remove it frrom my power edge server?

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  3:15 PM
Dell, Dell Poweredge 6850, PowerEdge servers, Remote access, Remote management

Poweredge 2800 W2K3 Repair loop
Experts, We have an issue with a server that crashed and we attempted a repair of the Windows 2003 installation but we keep going round in a loop.  Error we get is: “Setup was unable to access files needed to continue. This could be caused by an error in the CD media or the CD [...]

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2010  11:58 AM
Dell PowerEdge 2800, Knowledge Point Challenge, PowerEdge servers, Windows Server 2003

using a poweredge 600sc for a normal web surfing computer
i got a real nice dell poweredge server with windows server 2003 , i got it online but dont want to use it for a server. I just want to use it for web browsing because of its speed. Can i get past the security of a server to stop asking permission for every site [...]

Answer Question   |  December 30, 2009  1:26 AM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge 600SC, PowerEdge, PowerEdge servers

Poweredge 2800 No longer boots
One of the servers I manage is a 4.5TB Poweredge 2800 with a powervault 220s running Windows Server 2003 that no longer will boot and is about 10 months out of warranty. I started having some minor problems last week that I assumed were software related but then I did a reboot of the server [...]

Answer Question   |  August 25, 2009  4:35 PM
Dell, Dell PowerEdge 2800, PERC Arrays, PowerEdge servers, Powervault 220s, Server Hardware, Servers, Windows Server 2003