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Dell Technologies is a multinational technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, known for its extensive range of products and services in the IT sector.

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The Evolution of Dell iDRAC

Graham
Dell iDRAC, or Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, is a hardware and software solution for out-of-band management of Dell PowerEdge servers. The iDRAC is designed for secure local and remote server management, which allows IT administrators to deploy, update, monitor, and maintain Dell PowerEdge servers from any location, without requiring...
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Configure FX2 Chassis

Graham
Once you have racked your FX2 chassis: Provide power to both PSUs (Note that if your chassis has an 8 node specification then you may require IEC 19/20 ports rather than the traditional C13/14 (Kettle leads) on your PDUs: Connect a laptop to the on-board CMC port with a cross-over...
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Configuring Dell EMC FX2 FC430 Blades

Graham
Due to the number of blades in the environment I am configuring in this example, I will be making use of server profiles. Server profiles allow us to set the configuration on one blade , export this configuration and apply it to multiple blades. This saves significant provisioning time and...
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Dell FX2 Overview & Setup for vSphere Environments

Graham
In this series of blog posts, I'll go through the base configuration required for the following scenario (Scroll down for links to the configurations) Configure FX2 chassis with dual FN2210S IO Modules to LAN & FC switches for Dell EMC VNX. *Note that these guides are not suitable for Dell EMC Unity and possibly other...
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Dell Certification Program

Graham
Looking to certify with Dell? There are a few certification tracks as follows: Dell SC Series Storage Professional Exam Dell PS Series Storage Professional Exam Dell Series Networking Professional Exam Dell PowerEdge Professional Exam Dell PowerEdge Associate Exam Implementing Dell Client Systems Exam Network Associate Exam Storage Associate Exam Pass...
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Dell iDRAC7 – Record boot process to video file

Graham
Everyone has been around for the aftermath of a server crashing. Usually servers are configured to reboot automatically after a crash caused by a power failure for example. Sometimes you don't know the cause. iDRAC7 to the rescue! - Now you can set the iDRAC to record the boot process...
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Dell iDRAC Automation with RACADM

Graham
Since as far back as I can remember, Dell have made available a CLI for their iDRACs. This means we can easily automate the configuration of the Dell iDRAC remotely. This is key for a number of reasons: Speed of server deployment. We can deploy servers much faster by automating...
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Dell PowerEdge Range – Naming scheme

Graham
Dell PowerEdge has been a main competitor in the server compute market for some years. Support for VMware's ESXi Hypervisor is forever strong and the HCL always updated. Support for the latest generation CPUs is always included with new releases and the online customization tool is a real selling point...
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Dell and EMC Merge into Dell EMC

Graham
Since I started working in IT I've always had a preference for Dell for compute and EMC for storage. Why? Probably because I was first introduced to the Dell Server range before HP and Cisco etc, I liked their build quality and logical placement of components. Furthermore I got hands...
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HP, DELL and CISCO custom ESXi images

Graham
I see many questions on the VMTN regarding the use of custom ESXi ISO images released by the major server vendors. In short, always use the ESXi image supplied by the vendor. They contain supported drivers and management VIBs (Such as ILO management for HP) which VMware do not provide...