@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

actually i do not have any license, i'm planning to buy one, and i want to deploy it in 2 VM, what is the best option??

Why would you buy old versions? Buy current. Don't invest in technical debt.

compatibility issue as i said before, i have an application that is using SQL SERVER 2000, does 2012 R2 support SQL 2000??

if we buy server 2012 R2 standard, can we install on it SQL Server 2000 ?? because we have an application that is not compatible with SQL server above than 2000 ??

actually i do not have any license, i'm planning to buy one, and i want to deploy it in 2 VM, what is the best option??

for the edition we want entreprise

Hi everybody,

i want to know is there any difference btw the price of the license for physical machine or virtual machine, we have 2 physical server DELL Poweredge T310, i want to take one of them and host in it 2 VM, so now i'm wondering if the license for a VM is cheaper than the one for physical machine

thanks

loooooooooooooool
what is the diffirence btw Xeon and i7 ??

Ok thank you guys, i will turn my server into a normal PC, but this PC will be powerful

so there is a difference btw normal PC and a server turned into PC

but a normal PC cannot be powered 24/24 hour, and this server had only 2 HD, (RAID 1 mirroring)

@IT-ADMIN said:

@Dashrender said:

you can't connect your old drives and expect them to work as they did before. The RAID controller is what knows how to make the drives work with each other to get your data off, depending on what RAID level you were using.

i'm planning to format it, i mean install a fresh windows server

i recover myself with the HD that was in the server, now i'm planning to build the server from scratch, no need for the old configuration

@Dashrender said:

you can't connect your old drives and expect them to work as they did before. The RAID controller is what knows how to make the drives work with each other to get your data off, depending on what RAID level you were using.

i'm planning to format it, i mean install a fresh windows server

ok Dear Scott thank you very much
my question is : can i connect the motherboard with a single HD and boot from it without using the RAID Card ??

they told me that the shipping of the RAID controller will take 4 to 5 weeks, so we decided to collect the server from them, so now i want to connect the motherboard directly to the HD, i don't want the RAID, is it possible ??? because i think the RAID just add complication and currently we don't need it since we will buy a NAS storage

after the inspection, they told us that the RAID controller is faulty and need to be replaced

i'm very sorry guys, i was very busy since yesterday, we were building a replacement server and take the server to the DELL maintenance center, waiting for the result of the inspection.

i don't think that the RAM has something to do with this problem because i unplug/plug the 2 RAM, but without result, i guess this is a RAID controller issue

hi everybody

i think i made the worst mistake ever, i was cleaning the server from dust and unplug the RAID controller, after that the system cannot boot and show this message :

i think after removing the RAID controller, the motherboard lost the boot configuration (one technician told me this)

i'm in a shit now

@Jason said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

@IT-ADMIN generally setting up your iDrac is the first step in installing a Dell server (or ILO for an HP, IPMI for SuperMicro, etc.) I don't know the T310 specifically, but likely you will need to set up access for it in the BIOS. The iDRAC will have its own IP address and should be accessible from a web browser.

Most of the newer ones can be configured from the front panel LCD without even messing with the BIOS or Idrac/Lifecycle controller settings on the server.

unfortunately i don't have LCD on my server
what is strange is on their website they show LCD but in reality there is no LCD (just marketing) or maybe i have an old generation

@Reid-Cooper said:

@IT-ADMIN generally setting up your iDrac is the first step in installing a Dell server (or ILO for an HP, IPMI for SuperMicro, etc.) I don't know the T310 specifically, but likely you will need to set up access for it in the BIOS. The iDRAC will have its own IP address and should be accessible from a web browser.

unfortunately it is not me who set up this server in the first time. so i don't know anything about that

@Reid-Cooper said:

That should have an iDrac I think. Log into that and see if the temps are displayed.

how i can access that, i never notice this

@Reid-Cooper said:

@IT-ADMIN start by using the tools on the servers. Any "real" server will have this monitoring already, you just need to log into the server and look at it.

What kind of servers do you have?

Dell poweredge T310