Installing pfSense on Dell R230 error mfi0: failed to get command
Last week I had to install the latest version of pfsense (2.3.2) on a Dell server poweredge 230 with a raid controller Perc H330 on board. After the boot from the install cd I follow the first steps of installation and configuration, when it starts to write to disk to install the operating system I have a feeling […]
iDrac – Error when reading from SSL socket connection
If you have to do with some a bit old Idrac and you have instead a newer browser and java virtual machine is very likely that you run into this error trying to open the server console: “Error when reading from SSL socket connections” The problem is due to the fact that the latest versions of […]
ESXi upgrade operation failed – Error: permission denied on Dell server
Not long ago I came across this problem in groped to update a esxi update1 5.5 from version to version update3 on a Dell R630 server arrived with esxi preinstalled on a raid1 two SD cards. The attempt to update is made by inserting the CD at the server boot time (in reality […]
Equallogic warning: Free space is below threshold of 15 percent for pool PoolName. Default Snapshot Schedule will run with max-keep set to 1
Hello everyone, this warning has already appeared to me in a couple of customers after I upgraded the Dell Equallogic firmware to version 8 or later. It occurs in cases in which you don't use the snapshots function and decide to not allocate usefull space for the snapshots. If you are in this case study the equallogic […]
Massively configure Dell iDrac snmp and smtp parameters
In this post we will create a small powershell script to change on a broad scale the snmp configuration of Idrac present on Dell servers, returns very convenient if you have a battery of tens / hundreds of Idrac to set up as it avoids you to enter every single web interface and losing five minutes for each of Idrac […]
How to reset Dell iDRAC
Sometimes it happens that the servers iDRACs have some problems, they do not respond or respond “in a bad way”, perhaps they are pingable but the web interface is not responding correctly or perhaps entirely inaccessible. The first thing to do in cases like this is to reset the iDRAC, We can distinguish two cases: I can turn off the server because […]
In vSphere 5.5 the Rescan All does not show new lun after patching.
This is an error encountered during the installation of an infrastructure of 3 nodes with a SAS storage 12G (in this case an MD3420) After applying the patch 5.5.0 2068190 (update2) to 5.5.0 2718055 the Rescan All does not show the new LUN while the old ones still works. This is due to a […]
How to update disks firmware on Dell EqualLogic storage
Si tratta di una banalità 🙂 Vi basta scaricare dal sito https://eqlsupport.dell.com/secure/login.aspx (of course you have to have an account to login…) the package “Hard Disk Drive Firmware Update Utility v X.X” section “Recommended PS Series Hard Disk Drive Firmware”. You can download it in .zip format or in .tgz format if you download it in .zip format not […]
