Dell PERC Question (Server Down)
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I generally go with anything that I can get a 5 pack of. A 5 pack of USB drives at 16gb capacity for $20-30 should hold you over for the life of the server.
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We use SD Cards in RAID for OS on Hypervisors.
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I have two Dell R720XDs with redundant SD cards running ESXi6. I have two more R710s running 16GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drives, also running ESXi 6. I got them for three reasons- The had great reviews, they are cheap and they are tiny, which means they are a lot less likely to get knocked off or broken in the USB port.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820173033&cm_re=ultra_fit--20-173-033--Product
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@MattSpeller said:
If I were buying one today for myself or a "critical duty" I'd get these, no question. Best reviewed ones I can find.
That is some serious USB drive.
I have a feeling a lot of the price is driven by features you wouldn't need for this purpose, though.
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@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
If I were buying one today for myself or a "critical duty" I'd get these, no question. Best reviewed ones I can find.
That is some serious USB drive.
I have a feeling a lot of the price is driven by features you wouldn't need for this purpose, though.
Indeed, I'd stick with a good name brand one, tiny thumbnail form factor if that's what floats your boat.
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I had a thought on this over the weekend, which might help push my decision here.
Since this is a DELL server, will it have any issues running off of non-DELL USB drives?
I mean, you would think it wouldn't matter, but as we have seen, it certainly does not like non-DELL stuff.
I could get the DELL SD reader and two DELL SD cards. But that seems like overkill.
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@BRRABill said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
I had a thought on this over the weekend, which might help push my decision here.
Since this is a DELL server, will it have any issues running off of non-DELL USB drives?
I mean, you would think it wouldn't matter, but as we have seen, it certainly does not like non-DELL stuff.
I could get the DELL SD reader and two DELL SD cards. But that seems like overkill.
I've never even seen a Dell branded USB drive.
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I mean, you would think it wouldn't matter, but as we have seen, it certainly does not like non-DELL stuff.
I have non-DELL memory and hard dives in my Dell Servers with no issues. I suggest you try it again, with new drives. I even have a same SSD drives you do running in a dell server with no issues.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
I've never even seen a Dell branded USB drive.
They sell DELL SD cards with the DELL SD reader.
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@aaronstuder said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
I have non-DELL memory and hard dives in my Dell Servers with no issues. I suggest you try it again, with new drives. I even have a same SSD drives you do running in a dell server with no issues.
These drives are specifically designed to work with the DELL servers as well.
I'll ping @jleskovsky again, maybe he will chime in.
I know this is a newer brand of the SSD everyone has been using from EDGE/xByte.
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@BRRABill said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
@scottalanmiller said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
I've never even seen a Dell branded USB drive.
They sell DELL SD cards with the DELL SD reader.
I know that they sell cards, had no idea that they were Dell branded. Dell doesn't make cards, so it is like Dell floppies, just their name slapped on it.
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Dell doesn't make cards, so it is like Dell floppies, just their name slapped on it.
And hard drives, and memory... Does Dell really "make" anything?
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@aaronstuder said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
Dell doesn't make cards, so it is like Dell floppies, just their name slapped on it.
And hard drives, and memory... Does Dell really "make" anything?
Technically, no. They do the design work for cases and such, everything else is almost always off the shelf parts.
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@aaronstuder said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
Dell doesn't make cards, so it is like Dell floppies, just their name slapped on it.
And hard drives, and memory... Does Dell really "make" anything?
Server chassis, motherboards, some chip sets... they make the servers, like all the server makers. They all do the same things, make the servers, not the plug in parts.
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@travisdh1 said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
Technically, no. They do the design work for cases and such, everything else is almost always off the shelf parts.
HPE especially makes quite a bit of their own stuff. But Dell does, too. If you got a bare server, the only things that are not really Dell are the CPU and the memory, which are interchangeable parts. Computers are complex and made up of tons of components, no one anywhere makes every single thing themselves, especially for servers which are huge. But Dell makes a LOT of stuff.
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So what was the general consensus here?
OK to boot XenServer off a name brand USB stick?
Or is the DELL server going to throw a fit about that, too?
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Yes, we all use brand name.
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@BRRABill said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
OK to boot XenServer off a name brand USB stick?
Yes, should work (I'm doing it.)
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Any name brand stick should be fine.. just stay away from the SW freebies
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@scottalanmiller said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):
Yes, we all use brand name.
Continual crashing of non-DELL stuff after being told not to use non-DELL stuff has put the fear of ... DELL ... into me.
