BMR hints? W2k8r2 BMR from Dell Poweredge T310 to different Dell machine

Hello,
I've seen some other questions about this problem, but haven't read any responses that quite help me get to the other side of the problem I'm having.
I have a situation where I need to restore a bare metal backup from a Dell PowerEdge T310 server to an off the shelf computer. It fails, of course, and I'm stuck about what's causing the failure so I can try to remedy it.
Both machines have the same storage space. The T310 utilizes DELL PERC 6/i Adapter and contains 3 500 GB drives. The other machine does not have this hardware. I'm wondering if this is the trouble.
I was able to successfully restore this server, without any trouble whatsoever, to an old Dell OptiPlex 330 workstation with a single 1TB drive, but cannot get the same result when a Dell Inspiron i7 is used.
Both machines are ACPI x64-based PCs.
Do you think it's the missing PERC that's causing the problem? From your experience, what are all the not-so-obvious things I should check?
The fact that I can do a BMR to an old OptiPlex is amazing. I didn't expect any problems with the new computer.
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
Beth

Hi,
We do not support restoring a system state backup from one computer to a second computer of a different make, model, or hardware configuration. We only provide commercially reasonable efforts to support this process. Even if the source and destination
computers seem to be identical makes and models, the source computers may have different drivers, hardware, or firmware than the destination computers.
According to your description, the two server have different RAID controller. BMR between the two servers will cause BSOD or system not boot issue.
How to: Bare Metal Restore of SBS2008 to different hardware with a different RAID controller?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/019a504e-c109-4d18-a85f-4f03944ada05/how-to-bare-metal-restore-of-sbs2008-to-different-hardware-with-a-different-raid-controller?forum=windowsbackup
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Hi Eddie,
Based on your description, we have many different problems in two servers as below,
In the file server.
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-> odd problems using IE on the server - for example I can go to Google, carry out a search but when I click on a result it just sits there waiting for Google.
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still exist, please involve the administrator of DNS server to help verify if the domain name resolution has some problems.
-> certain users on other VPN sites having problems accessing certain areas of our Intranet that require authentication
I’m a little unclear about this part. If the VPN connection has set up successful, it is possible that the user need be authenticate when the user access some resource of the
Intranet. So what is the certain areas and what prompt we received.
In the Exchange server.
->Incoming external messages over 4Mb are delayed and eventually bounced - our provider says that they are getting timeouts. Incoming messages with
attachments from two other internal Exchange 2007 sites are getting delayed and from one sites are not getting through at all. Messages without attachments are not getting through at all. In the Exchange logs I am seeing Connection Timeout and Connection Dropped
messages.
-> I am very sure that the problem is not with message size as all parameter relating to message size are set to 100Mb.
We can send messages but we can’t receive messages, it was delayed or it can’t get through. And I notice that you mentioned that the message size is
not the problem. To verify if the network have problems about the size messages. We can also download a file whose size is over 5Mb from the Internet. If we can download the file, maybe it’s not the network problems.
-> I know it is not a firewall issue as redirecting incoming external messages to the old Exchange server is fine.
Maybe we could also turn off the firewall temporarily to see if the firewall block some connection.
-> To my mind this looks like there is something on these servers which is messing with http/https/smtp when communicating outside the local subnet.
If we think the http/https/smtp are related to this issues, maybe we could check if all ports about this service was opened.
And due to server 2 is an Exchange server, there might be some wrong with the Exchange services. We have the related Exchange forum with professional
to deal with this issue. If there are still some problems with Exchange server, maybe we can try to create a new thread about Exchange.
Best Regards,
Tina

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Edited by: Rajendra on Oct 9, 2008 2:03 PM
Edited by: Rajendra on Oct 9, 2008 2:03 PM

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Dell Poweredge Server Configurations

Change from 3 drives to at least 4 and as per Gary D Williams says get out of raid5 (aim for raid10 if you can). Also have no idea about how much storage you actually need, so you might want to calculate your storage requirements using a raid calculator.
Usually best to add the 2nd cpu on build. Is a pain to add it later.
Depending upon how many VM's you're adding and if you have other roles you need to run, you may want to bump up your ram a bit (ram is cheap......)

Hello all,Early morning we received three configurations from Dell for our server updates.Since i'm not so associated with server class hardware, please give advice on this configurations..we are planning to Migrate our Active directory Domain to the R630 and will be installing Vmware Hyper visor on R430.Configuration are as follows.1.Dell PowerEdge R630 Server TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS / 27865290
1 PowerEdge R630 Motherboard1 Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 1.9GHz,15M Cache,6.40GT/s QPI,No Turbo,NoHT,6C/6T (85W) MaxMem 1600MHz1 Chassis with up to 8, 2.5" Hard Drives, up to 2 PCIe Slots (WithOptional Riser)1 Bezel 8 Drive Chassis1 Riser with up to 1, x8 PCIe Slots + 1, x16 PCIe Slots for x8, 2 PCIeChassis with 1 Processor1 Electronic System Documentation and OpenManage DVD Kit, PowerEdgeR6301 2133MT/s RDIMMs1 Performance Optimized2 8GB RDIMM,...
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How to get the drivers for Dell PowerEdge M620 in INF format?

How to get the drivers for Dell PowerEdge M620.
We tried downloading
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/poweredge-m620/drivers but they are in exe?
How to get inf files for those?

As Jason pointed out, they can be extracted, I believe this can be done with 7zip also... Or you can just install one M620 from scratch, install the Dell drivers and then use this tool:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-Driver-Injector-aae7d17d to grab the drivers in .inf format.

Dell Poweredge 2800 Solaris?

Hi,
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server. It has three 73Gig SCSI diska and three 146 Gig SCSI disks.
This system comes with LSI 53c1030 controllers. The drives are hot plug and the dell backplane has a device that appears on the SCSI bus PE/PV 1 x8 SCSI bp.
This machine hangs in configuring devices Solaris 10 GA.
In solaris 9 it sort of works with the Driver from LSI but the I/O rate is limited to 8 Megabytes/ Second (if your lucky, normally running at 1 meg/second). The file systems on the diska have been corrupted three times in 1 day. The messages file has a repeated error message
ID 3658 kern.info <Default cyl 8921 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
The verify disks in the controller bios takes around 100 minutes for the 73 gig scsi and says its complete at 86%!
Has anybody got any idea how to get this box working?
Please Help!

OK guys,
I've got it rocking. thanks to the new itmpt driver released by LSIlogic a couple of days ago for download on their site.
these are the exact steps, how to install Solaris 10 x86 (03/05 release) on a Dell 1850 Dual Xeon 3Ghz, with 2x73GB SCSI disks, using an LSI 1030 controller.
1. go into the bios in the Dell, and disable the Raid mode, this is done in the Integrated Peripherals, just set the raid card to SCSI enabled. Also, make sure the boot device has the diskette above the hard drive or CD.
2. download yourself the 119376-01 SD.ITU from sun.
3. make yourself a DCA diskette (you can get the file called d1_image from the DVD, which you can mount on another pc)
4. mount that DCA diskette on some linux box, or wincrap box, it is a DOS formatted diskette, and edit the file [solaris/bootenv.rc] file and add a line at the bottom with the following:
setprop acpi-user-options 0x4
5. boot the machine with the DCA diskette, and the DVD in the drive (make sure the diskette is booting), and then F4 to add a driver, and add the SD.ITU diskette. Then continue as always (F2....)
6. When asked what boot option, choose Interactive installation text in CONSOLE MODE (option 4) (believe me, you will need this due to a bug in the graphical install)
7. continue with the full install, you will notice that even though the e1000g0 is "skipped" on the test, it actually recognizes that you are networked, weird.
8. at the end of the full install it will ask you to add the SD_11... diskette again, so do that, and press enter. If at this point it complains that it cannot find the sd driver in the diskette, then press enter again, and it will find it (this may or may not occur randomly).
9. the box will reboot, and the bootup will take a long while doing some SMF stuff (i.e. how to hide inetd so that noone can telnet in any longer hahhaa). During this process, go to the lsilogic.com site, and download yourself the following file: itmpt-x86-5.06.00.zip
10. unzip that file, and you will notice that it contains itmpt-x86-50600-itu.dd and also itmpt-x86-50600.tar.Z
the itmpt-x86-50600-itu.dd is an ITU, but it only contains a solaris 9 version of the thing, so it wont be useful at boot time. Ergo, we will use the package file itmpt-x86-50600.tar.Z
11. Now that you are networked, copy that itmpt-x86-50600.tar.Z file into your dell, and uncompress untar it. Then change into the install folder it creates, and just type pkgadd -d . Go ahead and install the thing.
12. not it is important that you make sure you do exactly as the installpkg tells you. You need to vi /etc/driver_aliases and comment out the mpt "pci1000,30" and mpt "pci1000,50" lines (i.e. add a # as the first char of the line).
and UNCOMMENT the ones you will see at the bottom, called itmpt "pci1000,30" and itmpt "pci1000,50"
in my case the itmpt "pci1000,54" is already uncommented, leave as is.
13. touch /reconfigure
14. reboot
15. PTG.
The key end effect that was desired:
- I now get 50-100 megabytes / sec sending data from disk to disk, which is paaaarfect !.
- Hyperthreading is recognized properly, I can now see 4 cpus,
- The 8GB of swap I have is recognized.
In response to Solaris being junk, and moving to Linux or BSD, well, this is not an OS-War thread, but I can guarantee the following premises are true:
a. the easier to install an OS, the more latent incompatibilities are added to a running system, which invariably manifest themselves at 4 AM, or when you least expect them.
b. wincrap is not and OS, it's just a bad, sad joke on humanity.
c. BSD will invariably freeze your whole operation as soon as you have 10 heavy applications accessing the disks heavily for more than a minute.
d. Linux will invariably need a reboot once in a while, specially when you run more than 5 different heavy apps with lots of ram manipulation, and disk action. (note, if using heavy NFS, then the reboot will be needed once a week or less)
e. Solaris (sparc or X86) is the only one that allows me to sleep and smile (once it's installed of course), and will not freeze no matter what you throw at it, I have a dual cpu x86 at constant load 3 or 4, doing webserver, database, php runner, and batch image processing, with an uptime of 1200 days.
cheers to all, wish you luck.

Big hard disks in older Dell Poweredge servers

the 2960 is something like 7 years old so the technology at that stage would be limited as to what it supports.
To be fair they'll be limits on todays hardware as well. so in 7 years time you'll be asked the same question perhaps ?
But yes the spec sheet agrees with you 2TB is the max size for a single disk,

Hi,We've just decommissioned some older servers from our school and my manager is looking to re purpose them into just some spare storage for back ups.We have a Dell Poweredge 2950 which according to Dell's spec has a PERC 6/1 card in it.I'm not terribly knowledgable on RAID cards.According to various google searches that come up, this card doesn't support 2TB disks.We are looking to get a pair of 8Tb disks for this. Is it worth looking to get a better disk controller card for this, or is this not really feasible?I've got two HP Microservers (original N36L and a newer G8, one is getting a 3TB upgrade next week) so maybe one of these might be better for a cheap big storage solution.I'm kind of disappointed that so many enterprise grade servers don't have the means to take rapidly more generous capacity hard disks.
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