This post talks about how I reduced the power consumption on my Dell R720 by adjusting the configuration settings. In this post: Dell R720 Sources I found Taming a 12th gen Dell PowerEdge when I was researching data cables for the SAS card I was going to use. For the record, the cables referred to […]
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I like to build systems that boot using drives directly connected to the M/B. No HBA, no SATA cards, etc. I like the simplicity involved. Sometimes that target is hard to achieve. The first step to configuring the R720 was upgrading the firmware. I spent time on hardware selection, including power and data sources. I
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This post has been replaced by a new one. This replaces a previous post. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains 8 x 400GB SSDs and one 80GB SSD for the OS. I’ve added in a SAS 9207-8i card, as mentioned previously. The zpool: The filesystems: And dmesg:
This post has been replaced by a new one. I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 720. It contains 8 x 400GB SSDs. I’ve added in a SAS 9207-8i card, as mentioned yesterday. FreeBSD is not installed. I booted the system up via mfsBSD and had a look at dmesg output.
I have obtained a Dell R720 containing 10 x 400GB SSDs. The drives are connected to a RAID controller (H710P) which cannot do JBOD / IT mode. This means the drives are effectively hidden from ZFS, which is never good. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS Dell R720 SAS 9207-8i This post describes past work
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See also: Updating firmware etc on a Dell R730 I started writing this blog about a month ago. Last night, I did the firmware upgrade completely forgetting I had this draft post in my blog. Instead of reading this, I wound up doing something very similar, and pretty much lived tweeted it. After upgrading the
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