@scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @Jimmy9008 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @travisdh1 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: That makes a little more sense. They've negotiated a deal with Microsoft from the sounds of it. No, way, way more likely they just figured out how hard it is to get caught. I totally doubt anything like that is going on here. I have been told our annual budget for licensing which we pay is in the region of £600,000. Either way, not my problem Wow. But, sounds like only that high because they don't know what they are using, lol. The only way to get licensing truly down is to know what you use. Someone is both ignoring what is used, but also encouraging unlimited use. Both things set MS up to just keep making it more and more expensive. It's a trick, sounds easy, but makes one lazy licensing person encourage not keeping licensing lean - basically giving Microsoft the power to charge anything that they want down the road. Yeah, not your problem, but definitely a symptom of management issues and a lack of clear thinking. If they are truly paying their bills, my guess is a licensing "specialist" who has created their own job and knows if MS isn't used heavily, their job would go away, so is doing stuff to encourage you to lock in MS so that that specialist can't be eliminated. Basically creating their own job. Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you said. It's just not my issue. I still get to buy shiny new toys

@Jimmy9008 said in VLAN on Dell N4064 Stacked: Im guessing 'U' is fine. As I want vLAN2 to pass traffic where the device has already set vlan2 in its NIC. If the LAG is set to 'T', all traffic will be set to vlan2, right? Even when from vLan1/default... I think it's better to tag every vlan in both ends. Then you can be certain traffic ends up on the same vlan on the other switch stack.

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: @wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: @scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: @wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: Adding swapping out RAM to the list. Haven't gotten any word back as to whether or not it has fixed it. Just found out that the user will be in China for a week and a half, so I won't really be able to try much. That'll slow things down. Swapping RAM or him being out of the country? Being out of hte country. OK lol. I thought that is what you meant.

@Pete-S said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues: @PhlipElder said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues: As a rule, the primary slot in each channel should be populated. So, 4 sticks per CPU. Make sure Memory RAS settings are default and not stripe or mirror. That may be part of the problem. Make sure the sticks are in the primary slot for each channel which is usually a different colour than the secondary and furthest from the CPU. T410 is old 5500 series chipset which is triple channel, so I don't think you gain anything with 4 per CPU. Yeah, that era was three or six.

@phlipelder said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB: @dustinb3403 said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB: Does the Perc H710P 1GB raid controller have a battery backup option I'm just not seeing? I think all of Dell's PERC series RAID controllers are NVRAM for Cache? Meaning, no need for a cache battery module. Nowadays, pretty much.

@storageninja said in Looking for firmware: @nerdydad said in Looking for firmware: Looks like I am on the latest version of ESXi that will work with this datastore. You using VMFS3 or some nonsense? VMFS6

@gjacobse said in DellAssistant: Critical Seagate Update: Core is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY www.tinycorelinux.net Someone else had that issue https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/8sqrxx/core_is_distributed_with_absolutely_no_warranty/

We have both the Dell USB-C docks and a couple of the Thunderbolt models. So far we have had no problem with the USB-C. I even use one for my machine. The Thunderbolts were a bit problematic around the first part of 2017, but after several firmware updates they seem to have stabilized.

@obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: Plus MD1000 are for older SANs... eh? It's just extending the internal storage... externally, hence "DAS". It has tons of use cases. It does, but they MD1000s were mainly setup for SAN devices in mind. Yeah they can also be attached to servers as well which is not bad either. Just not my preference, nothing wrong with that. Not sure what you mean, a DAS is a DAS... MD1000, MD3000, MD1200, MD1400... whatever. They are simply (as what Dell calls them, @scottalanmiller , not me) "Server JBOD Expansions". They aren't specific to SAN use and are not SANs. Okay, I am not trying to go in a tangent and go in argument with you. Why does it need to be this way? Reason for me saying that mainly Dell uses it for SANs see below: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/powervault-md1000 You still can use them for servers for user. No arguing or disagreeing... I'm just not understanding where you're getting "SAN" from?

it should be noted that it's current build is Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.112] it is possible that rolling back (if possible) to 16299.492 would resolve - which at a point - becomes a 'fresh install' as roll back expires. And since this is a remote system, not convenient to do.

@lj said in Microsoft Hyper-V server 2016 and RD1000 backup: Reading the Veeam Backup Free Edition it appears it installs the console on windows Server or Windows Desktop. Does that sound right? I installed Altaro on the Hyper-V host itself. I don't know which setup would be better though. Comments appreciated. Yes, it goes on Windows.

Yeah after my limited experience with this, not sure I would ever trust using a non-DELL drive. At least on a production system.

@scottalanmiller posted here too https://mangolassi.it/topic/16567/dell-machines-unable-to-vpn-due-to-smartbyte-bloatware

@dbeato said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware: @scottalanmiller said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware: SmartByte, a bit of bloatware or possibly malware - certainly closer to malware than not, is shipping by default on some Dell laptops and desktops. If you are doing a clean OS install as is best practice, this bloatware will be unknown to you. But if you keep the random stuff that ships with your machine, you may run into networking problems. SmartByte has been found by Cisco (and us, now that we know about it with clients) to break network connections and specifically has been found to cause VPNs to fail to connect. You'll need to disable, or better remove, or best do a proper, clean OS install, to get your machine able to network reliably. None of my Dell Devices has ever come with this. Not even laptops bought through Amazon. In the past Dell and HP have had the Cisco AnnyConnect client but that is found more on home and retailers like Best Buy, Staples or such. Then again I don’t buy Dell Inspiron (Which are the ones with SmartByte for sure) I never run into it because I would never run a machine without doing a proper OS install, you never know what is on there. But we ran into this (and I've been ranting about how people got into the process of not doing a clean install - dealing with that separately) just now because someone had a machine that didn't get installed and, of course, terrible bloatware problems.

@dbeato hey bro! I was already using it last year I actually like it. Pretty decent.

@dbeato said in KB4074588 breaks USB mouse and keyboard: Also are your devices with AMD Processors? No, Intel, different gen on both laptops too

No experience with it, I'm afraid.

@JaredBusch said in Anyone put Korora/Fedora on an Inspiron 2 in 1: Well I had to buy the Inspiron, because it was in stock and available now. My MBP officially has no reliable wifi. That sucks, on two counts!

@Tim_G said in Caching Needs and SSDs: you have something on I/O path going wrong What do you mean? Everything looks good and appears to be going smooth according to all monitoring. No errors or performance issues. It's been doing a very good job the past couple years. I keep it fairly updated. So if something recent broke something on it, let me know and I'll hold off on updating.

@dafyre said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @anthonyh said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @anthonyh said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @dafyre said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: @marcinozga said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: My money is on fake RAID you got there. So use md. @marcinozga said in Linux RAID Question - Software or "Hardware" ?: My money is on fake RAID you got there. So use md. Also because you already use MD. You know what, I can even move the two disks to my new workstation and not have to transfer any data. I think the answer may have been found... Actually even better, I can break the RAID 1 on my current box and convert it to non-RAID, then move one of the disks to my new workstation and convert it back to RAID 1. If done right, I think I can do it all without any data loss too. I'd prefer to just move the two disks and not have to transfer any data... but that's just me. Yeah. I'll need to copy my home directory to the SSD in my current box before doing that though. That might be easier than breaking/re-creating the RAID. I'm not quite ready to "switch" yet. Hmm...

@beta said in SW Port - New Server for virtual host - Sanity Check: Oh, one thing I was really curious about too, would it make sense to get an extra drive as a hot spare? Normally with OBR10 and spinning HDD, I'd put every spindle into the array, but since SSDs are going to give me plenty of IOPS and capacity, I didn't know if it is a good/bad idea with OBR5. The rule of "no hot spare ever" for RAID 5 still applies. If you were going to do this, you would do OBR 6. OBR6 can make loads of sense here, but OBR5 + HS does not. But it is up to you, depends on cost and risk aversion.

@scottalanmiller said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID: @matteo-nunziati said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID: @stacksofplates said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID: I didn't realize people still bought tower "servers" There are some tower servers which really quakify as great imho. Noticeably from Dell Any that I've seen that are any good are convertibles (tower OR rack.) Ya we have 20 z440s that are racked. But those are higher end workstations.

@dbeato But again this is the official article http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/4/SLN266045/windows-server---the-poweredge-raid-controller-s100-and-s300-are-unsupported-on-a-hyper-v-host?lang=EN