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PCIe NVMe storage can provide an incredible speed boost to any server but booting from it is not natively supported on 11th generation Dell PowerEdge servers. 11th generation servers like the are …
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Installing an SSD to the optical drive by on a 13th Generation Dell PowerEdge is really easy. The only thing you really need to know is that the bay is 9.5mm high. I used this caddy from Amazon. I …
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The Dell iDRAC is so useful for many things, but in its default configuration it is very insecure: The default username is "root"The default password is "calvin" In this post I will show you how …
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We are still running some 11th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers in our DC and some of the virtual machines were having some performance issues. We considered completely replacing replacing the …
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Adding a USB 3 PCIe card to a Dell PowerEdge Server is easy, but most USB 3 PCIe cards require an internal power source, and Dell servers do not have any. The HighPoint RocketU 1344A PCIe card …
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I recently purchased and configured a Dell R320 with 3 x 2.0Tb Western Digital SATA Hard drives and although I knew the Cachecade drive I had configured was working I did a quick performance …
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