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PowerEdge 13G boot drive from consumer or enterprise SSD or NVMe via UEFI without BOSS

August 15, 2022 Chris Trudel

CentOS Fedora SSD Tips/Tricks Uncategorized Virtualization

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Use Case: Abiliy to boot an 13G node, either R630 or R730, when using the local RAID or HBA for a storage layer, and wanting to use an additional device for boot. With this procedure and some cheap hardware from Amazon, you can boot from a PCI device, with a U.2 or M.2 SSD or…

ConnectX-3 Pro Firmware Upgrade

February 16, 2022 Dave Thomas

Networking Tips/Tricks

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connectx esxi

Helpful commands and links to upgrading ConnectX firmware in ESXi…

SuperMicro: IPMI fan sensor threshold to 0 or del

December 17, 2021 Dave Thomas

Tips/Tricks

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Finally, a way to get SuperMicro boards to stop blasting the fans for low RPM, quiet fans…

Dell PowerEdge 13th Gen Fan Noise

August 22, 2021 Dave Thomas

Tips/Tricks

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PowerEdge

An excellent excerpt from another blog…

Manual Control of Dell PowerEdge Fan Speed (12G, 13G)

August 6, 2021 Chris Trudel

Tips/Tricks

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Dell PowerEdge R630 R730

If your like me and have a home datacenter, or have a bunch of Dell servers a small home lab, the fan speed curves in the iDRAC are very aggressive. They are normally used inside data centers where audio reduction is not a priority. Being said there are some simple tweaks you can do to…

oVirt Setup with PowerFlex (ScaleIO) Storage

July 19, 2021 Chris Trudel

CentOS Tips/Tricks Virtualization

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For many of us out there, running VMware as the only hypervisor is quite expensive. Especially when using a SDS type of storage solution, such as PowerFlex, or legacy ScaleIO. In this post, will contain pointers and gotchas, which require modification to successfully deploy. Configuration of Engine & KVM Hosts For this deployment, a standalone…