DELL Server

DELL Tutorial: Create RAID Using PERC 6/i Integrated BIOS Configuration Utility

by Ramesh Natarajan on May 4, 2009

DELL Server LSI Logic Create Hardware RAID
Disk space is never enough. On an on-going basis system administrators will be getting request to increase the disk space on a server.

In this article, let us review how to add new physical disks and create a virtual disk with a RAID configuration on an DELL PowerEdge Server using PERC 6/i Integrated BIOS Configuration Utility.

The new DELL Servers has the ability to create RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 using the hardware controller.

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WOL Wakeonlan Guide: Turn On Servers Remotely Without Physical Access

by Ramesh Natarajan on November 27, 2008

[Servers in a Rack]Photo courtesy of Jamison Judd

This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy.

Wakeonlan (wol) enables you to switch ON remote servers without physically accessing it. Wakeonlan sends magic packets to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters and motherboards to switch on remote computers.

By mistake, when you shutdown a system instead of rebooting, you can use Wakeonlan to power on the server remotely. Also, If you have a server that don’t need to be up and running 24×7, you can turn off and turn on the server remotely anytime you want.

This article gives a brief overview of Wake-On-LAN and instructions to set up Wakeonlan feature.
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How To Manage Dell Servers using OMSA – OpenManage Server Administrator On Linux

by Ramesh Natarajan on November 17, 2008

[Dell Server] OMSA is a web based application to manage DELL PowerEdge Servers. Using OMSA you can perform proactive system monitoring, system diagnosis, troubleshoot hardware issues and configure RAID etc., You can also view and manage hardware’s embedded system management (ESM) log using OMSA.

This is an jumpstart guide that explains how to install Dell OMSA on Linux. I have also provided few screenshots of DELL OMSA web application.
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