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Comment on Dell PowerEdge R715 iSCSI Boot with Server Core 2008 R2 by Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:22:32 +0000

@books – thanks for the link. It looks like that was relating to the drives on the install disk. My issue was that the BIOS itself had/still has a bug which prevents the failover configuration from working. But, again thanks for the link because no doubt that will come in handy in the future.

Comment on Dell PowerEdge R715 iSCSI Boot with Server Core 2008 R2 by books

books — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:06:35 +0000

Not sure whether im too late for this…but we had the same issue and used the following article from microsoft to fix it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974072

it’s also listed in the broadcom user guide

Comment on Dell PowerEdge R715 iSCSI Boot with Server Core 2008 R2 by bfisk

bfisk — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:32:48 +0000

Thanks Brandon. I am using an IBM HS22 Blade. I found out that IBM does not push the iSCSI firmware into their OEM Broadcom 5709′s in my blade. Doesnt look like I can upgrade, waiting to hear back from IBM HW support. Most likely will have to add a card that has the support and firmware built in.

Comment on Dell PowerEdge R715 iSCSI Boot with Server Core 2008 R2 by Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:35:22 +0000

Brian –

Actually there’s nothing you can or should have to do to install the iSCSI boot software. The firmware that handles this process is actually baked into the Dell BIOS. Basically what happens is Broadcom creates the software, hands it off to Dell who then has their engineers integrate it into their BIOS firmware. That’s why changes (like what I need done) are so long to come by.

So if your cards (and your system) are iSCSI boot capable, just make sure you have the latest Dell BIOS and pay close attention to your settings and boot prompts.

Comment on Dell PowerEdge R715 iSCSI Boot with Server Core 2008 R2 by Brian

Brian — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:57:03 +0000

Can you tell me how to install the iscsi boot firmware on a broadcom extreme II? I am guessing it is in the iso they provide but having trouble finding it.

Cheers

Comment on DPM 2010 Deleting Old Restore Points by Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:38:24 +0000

Brandon, you save my day! Thanks alot for this post.. with this solution i reallocated the full storage pool from a MBR Disk.. to a GPT Disk. After the retention days, my dpm havn’t ereased the old disk.. thanks to this post, with the last script i resolved this issue manually after hours of testing. now all is working fine!!

Greets Mike

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Comment on Exchange 2007 Public Folder Calendar and Management by Karcy

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Comment on Renaming a Data Protection Manager Server by Dorie

Dorie — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:22:45 +0000

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