Dell 14G Revival: Re-Flash, Re-Brand, Re-Dominate
Snagged a Dell PowerEdge R740XD on eBay—turns out it's actually a rebranded Dell PowerScale F900 node with custom firmware and branding! The chassis still reads PowerEdge R740XD, though,…
VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x: Fixing WD HGST Ultrastar DC SN200 NVMe Drives Stuck in Diagnostic Mode (Orange LED Blinking)
I ran into an issue when I purchased WD HGST Ultrastar DC SN200 NVMe disks for my new VCF 9 production lab. The first thing I noticed was…
Palo Alto PPPoE VLAN Tagging w/ Century Link Gigabit Fiber
Today's topic is about Palo Alto and PPPoE interface and VLAN tagging. Currently Palo Alto does not support VLAN Tagging on an Interface with PPPoE authentication for your…
Upgrading Processors in a Dell PowerEdge R740
Tonight's blog post is just a hardware upgrade, I was able to get ahold of 2 Intel Gold Xeon 5118 for a really good price on ebay. They…
Dell PowerEdge IPMI Fan Control
Controlling Dell PowerEdge Fans for 12th/13th Generation Servers is possible by communicating with the BMC using IPMI commands. In this walk through we will walk through on the…