Disclaimer: I am part of the Dell TechCenter Rockstar program and Dell has invited and paid for my trip to attend Dell World. I am under no obligation to write about Dell World and these are simply my observations during the event. I arrived a bit early as always to roam the halls and […]
Dell World 2015 diary: Day 1
Disclaimer: I am part of the Dell TechCenter Rockstar program and Dell has invited and paid for my trip to attend Dell World. I am under no obligation to write about Dell World and these are simply my observations during the event. First day of Dell World 2015 is at an end and what […]
Dell World 2013 review
In 2013 I was awarded status as Dell TechCenter Rockstar and for that I am very thankful! As a part of this program Dell invited me to participate in Dell World 2013 in Austin Texas. I travelled with fellow Rockstar Andreas Erson from Sweden. This was my first time attending Dell World 2013 and I was […]
Dell releases VMware vSphere ESXi OEM 5.5
I just noticed Dell has released their version of VMware vSphere ESXi OEM 5.5 build 1331820. Here is the direct download link. In case you want to validate your download integrity the MD5 checksum is: b9661e44c791b86caf60f179b857a17d Included in the image by Dell are: The drivers included in this ESXi image by Dell as part of the […]
Dell PowerConnect switch stack missing ports
A customer called me while configuring two new Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in a stack. After stacking the switches no ports on unit 2 would link up. The web interface also looked wierd: As you can see above the switch looks like it has no ports at all. As we can read in the Dell […]
Dell PowerConnect 6224 There was an error during decompression… resetting the switch
Recently a customer requested help to firmware upgrade a Dell PowerConnect 6224 switch. He had attempted to upgrade it from TFTP and HTTP, but unfortunately both ways he would recieve error “There was an error during decompression… resetting the switch” when booting the new firmware. He could still boot the old firmware. Since the customer […]
Upgrade of VMware ESXi 5.0 Dell Custom to ESXi 5.1 Dell custom fails
Today I was performing an upgrade of VMware ESXi 5.0 running Dell custom image to 5.1 Dell custom image using VMware Update Manager. The upgrade seemed to run as usual, but after some time I wondered why the host did not come back up after the automatic reboot. I went to the console and saw […]
Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches not stacking
Last week I was on-site with a customer to install two Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches for use with an EqualLogic SAN. The stack was not configured automatically. I used command show stack-port For some reason the switch detected the stacking modules as 10 Gigabit modules. Fortunately the CLI reference guide has the commands to configure […]
Dell ESXi PSOD LINT1 motherboard interrupt
Last week a customer encountered purple screen of death on their ESXi 5 installation on Dell hardware. Here is a screenshot of the error: After some research I ended up on Brian Wuchner‘s blog who suggested to diable the following two settings in the server BIOS: After disabling these two settings and rebooting the server the PSOD […]